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THUD!
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Thou wall, O wall, O sweet and lovely wall,
Show me thy chink, to blink through with mine eyne!
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That girdlest in those wolves, dive in the earth,
And fence not Athens!
Naw, yours works better.
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I'm more concerned about the notion of wolves wearing girdles.
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Also, fencing not-Athens is too immoderate a concept for me. Wouldn't it be just as good to fence Athens then go stand on the other side of the fence and pretend?
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(Runs joke into ground, runs away)
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Uh-oh. When you run a joke into the ground, does a pun tree sprout from the remains? (Do not feel obliged to answer that.) Maybe the ground is rendered fallow. Or maybe it just gets a bit squelchy.
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Or up.
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Can a bat be my sidekick now? Or must sidekicks be marine animals.
After all, I can't swim.
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Hmmmmm......
I shall call him... Amadeus? Amadeus seems a good name for a bat.
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And Daniel is blind as a bat without his glasses, so he and Amadeus have something in common.
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Maybe it's a case of, "If I can't see it, it can't see me" or "If I just ignore/don't look at it, it'll go away."
Hmm.
And Amadeus it is!
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Extrinsic: Michael Shanks doesn't need glasses, and when they blocked the scene, the bit about removing the glasses seemed like a nice moment of physical business to punch up the emotional subtext. (This suggests that the director doesn't wear glasses either, or he'd know better.)
Intrinsic: Daniel has been in and out of sarcophagi so many times that he sometimes forgets that he needs the glasses. So he removes them in a moment of emphatic emotion, then realises he can't see a damned thing. Or maybe his vision actually fluctuates.
Extrinsic is the real reason, but intrinsic is so much more fun as an imaginative exercise, don't you think?
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Therefore, from a blocking perspective, I get it.
However, ignoring everything but in-universe, as I usually do to a ridiculous point, the idea that Daniel sort of forgets whether he can see or not actually sort of cracks me up from a character standpoint. More seriously, I guess it should be thought about that we glasses wearing people can usually see vague shapes even without our glasses at least, so he probably wouldn't actually bump into much without them. Also, some people who have nearsightedness (speaking from experience but very limited experience, as this has almost never happened), sometimes find it useful to take off their glasses when they want to really focus on something that's extremely close up, especially people. There's something about eye-to-eye contact, psychologically, rather than eye-to-glasses-to-eye contact... Maybe.
I usually don't bother, though.
And it's usually not intense personal moments for Daniel that he does this. More, "Damn it, Jim--" moments.
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Yes, he can do that.
Because I said.
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