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[lolmac]

Gotta work on communikashun skillz.

Episode: The Prometheus Syndrome, Season 7          Screen Capture from: lolmac

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[lolmac]

Tangenting off into the analytical: now we get to wallow in the difference between intrinsic and extrinsic rationales.

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?

[clockwork-sky.livejournal.com]

When talking about TV shows or other fannish stuff, unless the conversation has already mandated that the discussion be directed in an extrinsic direction, I am always and invariably going to talk about the intrinsic side of things. I have a very extreme dichotomy between my actors and my characters, and I tend to allow myself to objectify and analyze characters more than I do the actual people who play them.

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.