This just gets odder and odder ...
I think after this weekend I may be able to write an essay on Season One. I've been stuck in the flat with bunged up sore ears (had to take the cotton wool out at one point so I could hear H) but my DVD-crawling-as-therapy has brought a number of things to light.
One is that apart from
Wet Foot Dry Foot they don't do long shots of anyone really - so no more revelations in S1 about hands or other body parts doing odd things I fear. That was a one off director. Pity.
After discussions with BF Garienos (he puts up with my interests bless him) who lectured me about American actors and told me to look out for method acting (and personal tics actors give their characters) I did spot one thing. Early on in S1 H has a stiff neck. When he gets stressed (this turns up four times but I can only remember two at this moment in time) he sort of twists his head to try and get a knot out. Right side of neck.
Its visible in
Cross Juristictions where H and Catherine are looking at the computer for information on the insulin prescription for the perp and in
Camp Fear at the end where we get the long shot back down in to the lab and H is standing in his office upset about losing Megan. Can find out the other two if you like ... I keep notes
Other very interesting thing (which we have already partly talked about) is what H wears under those suits. In S1 there's not much of the poor dear (he fills out a bit later on) so he's layering. In
Slaughter House when he's in the coveralls with Calleigh working out how the woman got shot he's got a t-shirt and shorts on under the over-clothes. Normally the suit jacket (which is well cut but actually quite baggy) covers all sins including his gun (you can't see he's wearing it when he has the jacket on)and gives him more bulk. When he has only his shirt on you see how skinny he is this early. He is however wearing an undershirt in S1 I think, if you compare how Speed's shirt clings to his form there's definitely something under H's shirt. I had given up looking for it but in the night scene in
Spring Break (when he's hugging the crying girl who got bitten) he hasn't done his top button up and you can see a white undershirt poking above his green shirt. It makes a repeat appearance under the green shirt under the coveralls when there's a team effort at the burnt out nightclub during
Tinder Box. Did make me wonder about ambient temperature at the time - does he feel the cold?!
Anyway, enought rambling for now, will keep you posted about anything new ...