I need to go and watch all the episodes again, because I just want to really watch the lighting, how they use natural light, especially with Crews.

This is a fantastic show to watch in HD, but in a different way then Pushing Daisies. Pushing Daisies is all bright, rich over saturated colors so that it's like watching Candy Land, extremely fairy tale, which totally works for the show.

But Life, is all about looking natural. You can see the wrinkles around Damian Lewis's eyes (which is totally not a complaint), and really see facial expressions. Last night, when he was talking to the prisoner (I forget his name) the room was blindingly white, very sterile. And the contrast between the natural lighting when he was walking out of the prison. It's more about the subtleties.

And in a very shallow note it's just lovely to see Damian Lewis that clearly..the way his eyes look.

I adore the use of natural light on this show, which is why the fake-driving scenes throw me for a loop.

I was looking at a still image after Charlie takes out Jack Reese's two thugs, and I'd thought the lighting was extremely unusual, like in the middle of the day, in that moment, all the world around Charlie had gone dark, it was almost like they had shot that moment on a set for dramatic/artistic effect. But looking at that still I realized that the sun was setting and it was a spotlight shining down on Charlie. Which? Awesome. It was probably a product of necessity, but I just enjoy that the light was "unnatural", in some metaphorical way that I can't articulate.

You can see the wrinkles around Damian Lewis's eyes (which is totally not a complaint), and really see facial expressions.

I love the wrinkles around his eyes. *snugs Damian Lewis from afar and in a non-stalkery fashion*

We should all watch Forsyte Saga togeter as methadone until the strike ends and we get new episodes.

There was this fabulous song that began rap-ish as Charlie was coming out of the prison, segueing to the scene of the Apartment of Pot and Snake, and googling what I can hear of the lyrics is giving me no love. *sigh*

Someone on my Flist recognized the song! It's Teddybears' Ahead of My Time (feat. Daddy Boastin'). I love it. It makes me chair-dance.

Remind me, if I ever come to LA, to find the music supervisor on the show so that I could make out with her/him.

We should all watch Forsyte Saga togeter as methadone

Alas, I don't own the series (although I've watched and liked it a lot); I do, however, have Band of Brothers, and I may be rewatching that one soon, although I'm not sure I'm up for it. Several episodes of the show reduced me to a sobbing wreck the first time I watched them.

I love the wrinkles around his eyes.

I do, too, except those times when I look at them at a certain angle and they remind me of those fake eyelashes on Alex de Large from A Clockwork Orange. See?

Charlie
Alex

a lot of times, if you put the video on pause and give it time to stream completely, it runs much smoother. Takes a little longer, but worth it.

I haven't tried this with the nbc streamer. At times though, it jumps back to the beginning for no reason or hangs up and just stops. The cbs streamer also seems non-mac friendly but it only stutters. None of this other bad behavior.

I hope that Life does a soundtrack album - because it is so good.

It's Teddybears' Ahead of My Time (feat. Daddy Boastin').

Awesome, Vonnie! I knew there was a song that I'd really liked from the show but haven't had a chance yet to sit down and figure out what scene it was from.

Large curd cottage cheese and pineapple:

Just read an interview with DL and SS, and basically not only do we get the back nine, but the other two eps that never got to be written because the strike hit before they even finished the first set of ordered eps. So, another 11 at least, and not just the 9!

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