Diary of an up and coming sociopath

I know I’ve still got other stuff to write about (mainly for my own benefit. I don’t want to forget what I’ve done, after all) but since I got back from this earlier tonight and going to be before 3am on a weekend is far too much like admitting defeat, I’m going to do this now.

So, as promised, some thoughts: 

Pinewood is very easy to get to. Way more so than Teddington, which only appears once a month for a short period of time and can only be reached by the pure of heart. Pinewood even has a fucking CAR PARK. It’s great.

The big Bond stage looks very imposing and stuff, and has a giant 007 on the side in case you missed it. Though, if you believe Cappsy (and it’s my opinion that we can) none of the next Bond film is actually going to be shot there anyway.

Retakes blow. As Nikki pointed out, there’s nothing more horrible than noticing an actor fluff their lines without realising or a boom mic fall into shot because as soon as it happens, you know you’ll be seeing all of this again. We saw almost every scene filmed a total of 3 times pluss additional coverage. It was bordering on torture at points. Thankfully, of the 2 episodes roughly two thirds were VT, so it could’ve been so much worse. They overran by half an hour as it was.

Noel Fielding is one scene-stealing motherfucker. In his first appearance, he repeatedly fucked up by missing his cue to enter the set, leading to them cutting that part out altogether and simply standing him in the doorway. His presence reminds me of Ali G on the 11 O’Clock show - virtually a level beyond everything around him. Of course, his screw ups meant re-watching bits we’d alreadt sceen acted out being done again. Bloopers are much funnier when you remove the context of having to actually watch them get filmed…

We saw two episodes, eventually. One involved a trip to the theatre, and was the funnier of the two, and the second involved a dinner party. Both were excellent, though, and certainly a notch up from Series 1 which was enjoyable, but not side-splitting or anything.

 All in all, not a horrible way to spend an evening, but remarkably draining. I’m not sure I’d want to do it again soon. Cappsy had been to the previous filming which lasted just as long but had onyl one episode filmed. I don’t even want to consider the levels of tedium that would involve…