Extras On Parade!

I haven't seen Thursday's show yet, but in the meantime here is a video and images of what I was talking about regarding the extras. As it turns out, the "woman" with the hat is actually THREE women in hats and party dresses, so no wonder it seemed to me that their walk-ons were excessive! There's a blond, a brunette and a redhead, and they all have their hair up in a bun. I guess I was so focused on the regular characters when I did the Boogie Chillen that I didn't look close enough at the extras to realize it was 3 different women -- I was just distracted by them constantly walking by.

On Tuesday's show (the first day of David's death), they were there a lot, but they didn't do nearly as much walking. They mostly stood around talking to people and gawking at David's dead body. At one point they were gawking so avidly I was pretty sure they were going to ask someone to take off David's pants so that they could see him better. Some of the other party guests walked around a LOT, though. Over and over and over again.

On Wednesday's show, the feather-hatted women were on so much that I made a little clip of them so you could see just how often. It's probably better to watch it without the sound since I edited it that way; it's probably quite choppy.

Actually, there was also a man dressed in black, including a black bow-tie and he walked by almost as often as the hatgirls. I think he was telling them where to walk.


And here are a couple of views of the woman with the hideous white dress with the shiny accents and flaps/sort-of bow ... thing ... At one point she started to bend/squat down so that her head would get into a closeup of (I think) Greenlee over the body, but the editors probably realized what she was doing and stopped it just short of her neck.




On a side note, I didn't realize how often Jesse leans way back as he's talking or just tilts his head up. I want to see a clip of THAT one Hubbard-centric day.

Robin "a little something extra" Coutellier

BC - Wed, 9/8/10

Uh, where IS David's body? I know he can't be in the morgue because Amanda just waltzed on in. So ... it's not the morgue, right? Right. I mean, once they start in with the saws and stuff, blood could mist over to the windows and blinds in the room, which weren't far from the table. If you are going to be doing autopsies, you really want a room that can be easily hosed down, not to mention quite cool. I think it was just a hospital room. That begs the question of why the pathologist was headed toward it, but maybe he was going to wheel David to the morgue himself.

I wonder what the Medical Examiner thought of Amanda. I mean, when he looked at her, did he see an extremely attractive, sexy woman or a "healthy young adult female with no obvious deformities or injuries; approximately __ centimeters in height and __ kilograms in weight; bi-lateral breast implants, serial numbers to be noted at a later date"?

All things considered, David's body should be GUARDED all the time until an autopsy is done. After all, pretty much everyone in town (and OUT of town, for that matter) hated his guts and might have cause to tamper with the body. But nooooo, there's Jake, inspecting the body, hands-on, despite the fact that he went to great lengths to thwart David and have his medical license taken away. Jake is not only one of the top suspects in his own right, but he's strongly attached to some of the other top suspects. And there's Amanda, who has reasons of her own to hate David, even if she is weepy and sentimental about his death. Is anyone else going to visit the body before it gets autopsied?

What is WITH that extra with the little hat at the Yacht Club? She keeps walking back and forth and back and forth and back and forth, usually right past the spot where David's body was. Someone needs to give that woman a Xanax or strap her to a chair or something. Or just boot her out -- she has no business there. I didn't see her carrying any swabs, so I'm pretty sure she's not a member of the Forensics team. She's a member of the Look-At-My-Hat team. She was like one of those battery-operated toy cars that changes direction upon bumping into things, with no particular destination planned, just aimlessly wandering around.

Jesse is concerned about Angie, so Natalia urges him to take the night off assuring him that everyone who needs to be on the case is already hard at work [snort!]. So he does. David Hayward has just been MURDERED and the Chief of Police, who was there at the time, takes the night off at the urging of his rookie detective daughter. Nice. Of course, given the enmity between Jesse and David, it's probably just as well that he DOESN'T work on the case, but shouldn't he be around for other shit since so many other Public Safety personnel will be focusing on the murder? Who's going to hand out speeding tickets, show up after 7-11 robberies, and bust drugged-out teenagers at the boathouse? Oops, no boathouse anymore. Okay, who's going to bust drugged-out teenagers and various sexual deviants prowling that pretty park in the night? Who's going to show up when someone inevitably punches David Hayw-- um, scratch that last one.

Robin "the Props Dept will have to install punching bags and/or clowns at all the PV homes and establishments to take up the slack" Coutellier

BC - Tue, 9/7/10, Part 1

Okay, David is dead. Presumably. The suspects are innumerable given what an evil, obnoxious, scheming, manipulative man he was. Really, we don't know yet if he died from a beating or poison or what, so even people IN the room when he staggered in are suspects. Of course, David being David, he COULD just be letting people THINK he died. Until we see the autopsy, we won't REALLY know. He's had a LOT of practice arranging for other people to be fake-dead, after all.

OR, maybe David chose this moment to end his own life in a dramatic way. Maybe he found out he really DID have a terminal disease. This way he can do a lot of damage with lots of suspects. Yeah he and Ryan were beating each other ,and he may have gotten into it physically with someone else after THAT, but what if he also took some sort of time-delay, undetectable potion he made that made him die?

Jake performed CPR on David for a total of about 26 seconds before declaring him "gone". Now THAT is a dedicated doctor!

I was wrong about the white dress on the extra I described in the last Boogie Chillen. Those aren't pouches, just some giant flaps of some kind. There may or may not be bow-like appendages to the side of the giant flaps. Whatever it is, it's HIDEOUS! The black dashes I described before, up close, are actually large square shiny things, similar to sequins, but much, MUCH bigger.

LOD:
Mayor Blanco: "Your ethics are not a priority right now!"

Liza doesn't HAVE ethics. Truer words were never spoken in Pine Valley, regardless of the situation or people involved.

Have papers been signed as far as Liza being the new DA? Didn't that JUST happen right before the party, with the mayor telling her in passing? Does anyone in town OTHER than the mayor know that Liza is the DA? Oh, apparently the governor of PA approved it. That doesn't mean it's official, though, unless Liza filled out some paperwork.

Liza has way, Way, WAAAAY too many connections to David to be a prosecutor in this case. He delivered Colby. He's an enemy of Tad, with whom she has an off-and-on relationship. He's an enemy of Zach, whom she also loves. He's blackmailed HER on occasion, forcing her to represent him. She DID represent him (as she stated to the mayor). For all those reasons and more, there's no way in HELL she would be able to get anywhere near this case in real life. Don't they have an Assistant DA? Also, she falsely accused Jesse of raping or attempting to rape her when they were teens. It was a long time ago, but they should NOT be working together on a murder case. I don't know the solution to that kind of ethical dilemma in real life. In PV life, it won't matter one whit.

All things considered, Jesse did a lousy job of securing the crime scene. While he did need to tell people it was a crime scene and not to leave, he should also have been standing over the corpse and trying to guard it from being contaminated. Why is everyone from the party STILL hanging around on the terrace well after David died but his body was still there? Shouldn't they have been herded into a ballroom or something? But nooooooo, they're walking all over the place and sitting at tables, milling around the railing between the walkway and the terrace, getting all manner of contaminants (hairs, fibers, dust, sequins, feathers, etc.) on things. For all the police know, people are standing behind the railing and spitting on the corpse! There could be blood or other DNA evidence transferred to the railing during his fall. The extras probably stepped on TOP of his body to walk by when Greenlee was at the very nearby table with Amanda, because there really wasn't much room to do otherwise. And, of course, someone threw their jacket over him a few moments after Jake pronounced him dead, which, in itself, is contaminating the body and crime scene. What a bunch of knuckleheads.

Then Greenlee kneels down and holds David's hand and cries over him, contaminating the body and her OWN body by touching him. For all the cops know, she's also removing or planting some kind of evidence. TOTALLY bogus!

That ring Greenlee is wearing is GIGANTIC; it's at LEAST a 1"x1.5" rectangle that I would only expect to see on someone at Halloween or perhaps at a costume party. Maybe it's a locket and it's where she keeps her mad money, the key to her safety deposit box and few other spare rings. Here's a practical question: How does she wipe herself without getting it caught on the underside of the toilet seat? That thing is big enough to BE a toilet seat!

Greenlee tells David's body that he deserved better than this. No he didn't. He deserved far WORSE, given what he's done to people over the years. All things considered, it was a pretty tame death, even if he DID get beat up first. For someone of David's caliber and history, you would at LEAST expect some preliminary torture or bizarre punishment or other more exotic death like being buried alive under a park bench (oops, BTDT). Some other options:

• He could have been thrown into a garbage bin just before pickup and been crushed in the truck or suffocated under tons of garbage.

• He could have been tied to a railroad track.

• He could have been asphyxiated from the overwhelmingly powerful air-freshener in his room or all the perfume, cologne, dry cleaning chemicals and dryer-sheet scents wafting from all the party-goers and waiters.
  

• He could have been stabbed with a BBQ fork.
  

• How about he punched someone who had just put a cocktail weenie into their mouth and the punch made the weenie fly out of that guy's mouth and into David's, causing David to choke to death?
  

• He could have burned some gift from Greenlee in a fireplace and died from toxic fumes.
  

• He could have gotten stuck in a revolving door in the Chandler tunnels, became nauseous, and choked on his own vomit.

• One of his Facebook friends could have been mad when he unfriended them, so they posted an ad on Craigslist pretending to be him and asked someone to kill and eat him.

• He could have slipped in the shower, fallen through the glass and landed with his head in the toilet.
  

• Angie could have bit him when he poked his finger in her face one too many times and the virus she has mutated and went straight to his heart.
  

• How about he tripped on the stairs, an extra behind him can't stop in time and her stiletto heel punctures his skull and skewers his brain?
  

• Maybe someone sets it up so that it looks like he died from autoerotic asphyxiation?
  

• Spontaneous combustion? I'm kind of surprised he didn't just shrivel up, leaving only his clothes and a wisp of steam or pile of ashes.
  

• An infected papercut? On his tongue?

• SOMETHING other than him being punched a lot which, let's face it, is kind of a normal day for him? Okay, maybe he has been punched SO many times during his time in PV that this was the last straw and he just imploded.
  

• There should have been coyotes howling when he keeled over or a flock of seagulls passing and pooping on him.
  

They should have given us a death scene that consisted of more than him staggering in, everyone turning to look at him and him keeling over, just like that. A fall over a railing from a not-quite-3-feet above the terrace doesn't really cut it in the drama department. He should have been staggering all OVER the place, tossing out little insults and goodbye stuff like "Tell eBabe I love her" and "Greenlee loves ME, not Ryan" and "Hey Tad, Dixie was a GREAT f**k!" and "Don't forget to feed my goldfish" and "The person who did this to me is ........... uh-oh ..." Thud.

Come ON! How about a little CREATIVITY, writers! Okay, it's too late for an exotic death, coyotes howling or seagulls pooping on him. At the very LEAST, can we find out when they undress him at the morgue that he's wearing lady's underwear? A Wonderbra, a lacy thong, garter belt and stockings isn't TOO much to ask for, is it? And we want to SEE it.

Oh well, maybe Vanessa and/or Leo will show up at the funeral. They never found the bodies, after all.

David's been dead for a while. So why did a cop just THEN go to his room? Shouldn't someone have been posted there right away (and NOT gone in until Forensics had a chance to investigate) considering his room was right there at the yacht club?

All things considered, did it ever occur to Kendall's pea-brain that Ryan might need medical assistance? He IS semi-fresh out of a coma from a brain aneurysm, after all and he clearly has amnesia. Protecting him as far as David goes isn't going to matter much if he's (further) brain-damaged or dead (again). Why hasn't she at least taken care of the gash on his face? For that matter, why isn't blood smeared all over his face instead of just near the gash? You would think it would have bled profusely.

Apropos of nothing, I think they should introduce Mayor Blanco's famous daughter and have her (if she's of age) start a relationship with Bianca. If they got married, Bianca could be Bianca Blanco. Then we could call her BiancaBlonkaDonk.

Robin "who will be our Snidely Whiplash NOW?" Coutellier

BC - Fri, 9/3/10

I don't mind Krystal's belt (although it's a trifle big) but the dress, overall, is kind of blah, at least for HER.

Opal's necklace is HILARIOUS - it's not just multi-stranded, it's MEGA-stranded!

That shimmery dress Bianca is wearing is NOT flattering. It makes her look droopy and bloated. It could be that it's her bad posture, though, and the dress accentuates the effects of said bad posture.

Did you see the white and black dress on the extra in the background? UGH! it look like it has fat dashes around her bust, waist, hips, and thighs. What is that supposed to be, an illustration on how to measure yourself in a Simplicity pattern catalog? And is that a POUCH attached to the front of it? OMG, there are TWO pouches, one at the waist and one at the bust! Put that one on Bianca with her bad posture and it would truly be a disaster! That's an AWFUL dress. The actress is carrying it off, but only because she would probably look good in anything. She's an extra and she wants to call attention to herself, so maybe that was her aim. I DID notice her, after all.

Don't District Attorney's have to run for the office, as opposed to being appointed. If that's not the case everywhere in the US, what is the law in Pennsylvania.

Kudos to the person who predicted that Caleb would soon change his name to Cortlandt! It's a tradition in PV for new-but-related characters to do that, but they hadn't done it for a while.

Robin "Asher Pike Martin Colby Chandler Hubbard Kane Cortlandt" Coutellier

BC - Tue, 7/13/10

Greenlee says she has to go pick up some artwork from the shop before it closes. Doesn't she have flunkies-- er, employees to do that?

Given the revolving door of women who get involved with her daddy on a continuous basis, you'd think that, at this point, Emma would be standoffish, if not downright HOSTILE to Madison. Every time another woman comes into her father's life, chaos ensues, her mother goes even further batshit crazy, and the flavor-of-the-week disappears.

What's with the sudden terror talk? Bianca's name gets put on a no-fly list (okay, so they can keep her here longer, but sheesh, she just flew to Paris and back the DAY before (2 days, MAX)). Then she and Jack casually throw around the word "Guantanamo". WTF? Why would they DO that?

Ryan tells David he has better things to do with his time than to eavesdrop on David's calls. Then what is he doing in the park? Doesn't he have better things to do with his time than go for a stroll in the park?

When David told Ryan "I'm sure you'll be there to comfort Greenlee in the end," was I the only one who wondered about which of her "ends" he would be comforting first?

Did you notice the waitress in the background at Krystal's just before Greenlee became falling-down drunk? She was making the most of her walk-on part, twisting back and forth while holding a menu (or possibly the bill), then dipping down dramatically to place it on the table as if it were a big birthday cake, and then doing a cute pose before departing. She and her friends probably had a party to watch the episode so they could all applaud her performance and drink to it

Robin "It was kind of cute!" Coutellier

BC - Fri, 12/12/08

As usual, Fusion is being its professional best by having a photo shoot of their model in their crappy office. I'm amazed they aren't just using Amanda's cellphone camera in between calls and text messages. Half the photos the guy took didn't even have the white screen behind Randi, so the ad campaign will apparently show her wearing red lingerie in the office. Or is that a dress? I can't tell. Whatever it is, it easily fits both Randi and Amanda. As short as it is on Randi, it probably doesn't even cover Amanda's ass (hence Jake's comments about her looking like a hooker). That, BTW, was WAAAAY out of character for Jake to be insulting her like that. He's a nicer guy than that. Yeah, he was spoiling for a fight after being rejected by Taylor, but he could have found a better way to pick on JAR than by belittling Amanda, with whom he had an amicable breakup.

When the woman saw Aidan leaving Annie's room and demanded to know who he was, I half expected her to pull an Obi Wan Kenobi and tell her to ignore him and let him pass -- he's not the suspicious man she's looking for. :-)

Did you catch the mouth on the extra behind Jake and JAR when JAR punched him out? JAR punches him and the extra's jaw drops in surprise and horror. Okay, I can buy that. But she just stands there holding the pose. It was very short, anyway, but VERY obviously too long held that way. I was wondering if a dentist was suddenly going to appear to inspect her teeth because I can't think of any other reason for her to stand there with her mouth so unnaturally gaping. I can just hear her now talking to the director. Director: "Sweetie, I need you to hold your mouth open in surprise." Extra: "But NO ONE would actually DO that for more than a split second! How long am I supposed to stand there with my mouth gaping open? What if I start to drool?" "Director: "You do it until I say cut! This is *ALL* *MY* *CHILDREN*. You're an E-X-T-R-A. Do you part as written or you're out! There are a thousand other women out there to take your place in a heartbeat. The extra's jaw obediently drops and stays that way.

What kind of idiot honcho at a mental institution would allow someone who bribes him to have carte blanche access to the patients without having the slightest idea WHY the guy wants to be there? I mean, what if Aidan is a rapist fixated on Annie? The guy obviously has no idea who Aidan IS, just that he has money. This could come back to bite him in a major way, so you'd think he would do at least a tiny bit of homework on Aidan before letting him roam the halls. For all he knows Aidan is working for some investigative agency that's investigating the running of Oakhaven and the guy could easily lose his job or even go to prison for letting Aidan do whatever he wants.

Robin "since Aidan routinely talks gibberish, though, he DOES fit in" Coutellier