I just want to be able to recognize you when I see you.

I should have a thread of screenshots of all my TV and movie background appearances. I'm in the trailer of Dumb and Dumber To as a mental patient.

Ok, here you go, nunnehi:

At about 21:20 in Episode 1, when Joe and Gordon are talking outside the movie theater. I'm the guy in the maroon/cream jacket to the the left (our left) of Gordon's head.



They also filmed us coming out of the movie inside the building (as you can see a few seconds earlier, before the scene shifts), but I didn't make the cut there. I didn't think I would, either - since it was supposed to be Return of the Jedi, my scene partner (the guy walking in front of me with the blue sweater) were air-light saber fighting walking out the door. After a bunch of takes, someone yelled to stop sword fighting. Unless others were, I assume he was addressing us.

Also, I normally wear glasses, but didn't during filming because they weren't period frames. It was a little bit of an adventure trying to walk over cables. During one shot, I walked past the actors and down a sidewalk and didn't see someone had left a full water bottle right in my path. Of course, I ended up kicking about 30 feet - I have a feeling that take was trashed.


And now for the true "blur" experience, at 47:44 in the Mexican restaurant when Joe was recruiting Cameron. I'm the head in the booth you see to the right of Joe. Right before that, you can kind of see me walking to my seat. They had me "go to the bathroom" and come back during the scene. No problem, but I was wearing a leather belt and if I didn't make sure that my back wasn't against the vinyl booth, it would make a fart sound when I moved. I was successful at avoiding that for all but one take. It was also a tight squeeze, so a couple times I almost took the tablecloth with me. The restaurant actually made us real food to eat during the scene - we just had to pace ourselves to make sure our plates weren't cleaned by the end of the takes.



As I said, totally not glamorous, but it was fun. Even if you had a clear shot of me in Episode 1, it would be hard to recognize me in future episodes. I have sunglasses on and longer hair in Episode 6 (the pilot was filmed months before the rest of the show) and have regular glasses on in Episode 10.

Just watched episode 2, eh. Thought it was slightly worse than the pilot. I'll keep going for now.

Nifty little SMU references I guess, Dickerson and James days.

episode 3 picked up the pace imo.

Being originally from the area (Fort Worth) that's supposedly depicted here, a lot of the Dallas specific references are almost like second nature for me, and I don't even think much about them. I actually took time to explain what happened to SMU's football program to my wife, but she just hit play...lol. Man it pissed me off when they beat TCU like 2 or 3 years ago.

Thanks for sharing the screencaps dl, that was indeed cool stuff and cool stories.

Show is still good. Gets better with each episode. All actors, characters, storylines and writing are fine so far. Let it develop, jeez. Everything shown has been pretty original. Especially like the approach on the business arc.

For example, you are gonna tell me a punk rock chick who educated herself in the early 80s transformed technology and a large corporation is cliche? Been depicted before?

Wait a minute, you're assuming this will be a happy ending (there's a good chance it won't be). The third episode was a notable drop off from the first two, but that could have been mostly due to the directing. Directing and editing could definitely fix some of the issues with the show, but it does have issues, and the last episode showed some pretty big cracks forming (if indeed there are cracks and it wasn't just the director).

When you have a scene like the one where Joe is standing in his living room naked listening to some song, that's just a little too damn creative for me to figure out what that's about. Maybe it was in the lyrics of the song (I'm bad at listening to lyrics in songs...lol), but I didn't get that scene at all.

I didn't listen to the lyrics, either. I just took that scene as another way to show he's a bit psycho.

Intro makes me want to watch Tron again.

I've enjoyed the first four episodes of this show, I saw it linked from kotke: http://kottke.org/14/06/halt-and-catch-fire

I hope they purposely plan for it to be one season though, I find it hard to imagine how they can go for longer than just launching their IBM PC clone.

I felt the same way (though.... I prefer Tron 2. Sorry). Also saw the Lego movie over the weekend, so Tron 2 + Matrix are on the list for a rewatch.

The way the show's going, they're acting like it's open ended. There's no explanation for why the plot isn't moving forward at all, otherwise.

This week, we learned that Joe is a psycho, Cameron is a mess with a bunch of issues, John doesn't like Joe, Gordon and Donna's relationship could be great or could be bad, and that the company may or may not be on thin ice. But at least now they're going to get some kind of press. The good news is that everyone already knew Joe was a psycho, Cameron's now going to be super careful, John's probably got his beat down of Joe out of his system (though does this mean Joe will now kill John one day?), and now maybe they can get to doing actual work toward making this PC clone. I want this slow build to finally go from being Stall and Catch Sparks to something fun to watch. This show is at its best when they're moving toward really building something (the show was good when they were trying to fix the issues in this episode), in my opinion.

This is the absolute slowest set up of Donna getting fired from TI, or being hired away from TI by Cardiff. If that's not where they've been going with that story all along, then I don't know what to say.

Even though it was all kind of contrived, and a little over the top, they did a pretty good job at making the loss of data feel real when it happened. As someone who's had that happen (I think I've lost projects 3 times in 19 years of working, and once found out I lost mix automation data 15 minutes before a mix was going to be approved...lol), it's no fun. It's just kind of too bad that the data was never lost, and she barely had to re-create anything. In all three cases of mine, I actually did the work faster and better the second time around, because I knew exactly what I had done and just re-created it as quickly as possible. That's the kind of event that really sparks the brain into doing good things, but it's too bad it was really all smoke and mirrors from top to bottom. I would have liked to have seen what Cameron would have done if she would have had to start from scratch. She might have done something a lot better than she had done originally, without getting stuck at all. Instead, she's now just learned proper file management.

Last episode was worst yet by far IMO. I want more nerdy stuff (even if I have no idea about it) like that thing in the "fishbowl" and that kinda stuff. I dont care about Cameron and her whining and I dont care about Joe and his "im the best at everyting, and oh im a major psychopatht". I want to see them trying to get this computer being built and that story, thats interesting, at least IMO.

Man, I thought it was the best by far. I'm liking Gordon's wife now.

I've really liked the development of the Gordon & wife dynamic. From the beginning, you could see their relationship was built on mutual respect, particularly respect for each other's intellect. But of course there was the strain with Donna trying to build her TI career and take care of the kids while Gordon was in his self-pity/unappreciated genius funk. At the same time, though, Donna knew Gordon needed to "spread his wings and fly," so to speak, but was hesitant to allow it because of how much it put her out.

I thought it was cool in Episode 3 when Gordon asked his wife for help with the motherboard design and then, of course, when he admitted to everyone in Episode 4 that she's smarter than him. Gordon still easily the best character and having Donna in the mix helps even more.

I'm also liking John more and more. I just find him entertaining to watch.

They'd better make Joe's background story something really cool. I really want to know why he's so nuts.

I agree with nunnehi, it's been a very slow build. I think there is a lot going for this show, so I don't feel the pace (no pun intended) is killing it yet, but they need to speed it up.

For sure no one could say this show doesn't have enough character development...lol. We basically know every motivation behind every person in the show through max repetition. Joe's father must own IBM or something (lol), because his desire to take down IBM in the most ridiculous way is all that seems to motivate him. I don't really think he cares whose lives he shatters in the process as long as he beats dad.

Not happy with the development of Cameron. She's too much like Angelina Jolie in Hackers. They tell us she's a great programmer when they should show us she's a great programmer.

I'll definitely keep watching but I think this show gets a little worse each week. All I can guess is that Cardiff eventually implodes since there is no historical basis for this fictional company to be a gamechanger. John is by far my favorite character.

Typing really fast with two fingers isn't enough for you? Gordon did look at some code she had put on a whiteboard and said it was brilliant in one episode. Is that more of a telling or a showing?

Silicon Valley keeps remembering us that only 2% of people in tech in the eighties were women. Has there been a single woman who was the main tech programmer of any company?

How would they go about that though. What's your suggested strategy there. Gordon's wife is supersmart and she says Cameron's code is sublime. I'm buying her as a great programmer. She guzzles orange soda and eats pizza!

And still stays rail thin.

Imagine what she looked like before she put on her freshman 15!

http://www.internethistorypodcast.co...ted-an-empire/

Thing is Compaq has already been mentioned on the show as a competitor.