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I know I shouldn't be criticising professionals. But I'm sitting reading my way through scripts for Sports Night.

And there's this teeny bit of word choice which I don't like at all. And hey, I'm editing this for spoilers even though it's for the middle of the first season of a defunct show. So. Y'know.

REMINDER: THIS EPISODE WILL AIR WELL BEFORE
THE "___" EPISODE, IN WHICH male A, male B AND female C
HAVE ALL SLEPT TOGETHER IN VARIOUS COMBINATIONS.

The word "various" is my problem here, because all the combinations I'm seeing are AB, AC, BC, and ABC. Now, in my world, four doesn't really amount to various. But since this is the kind of show it is, the only valid pairings are AC and BC. Two possible combinations. Two is in no way denoted by various. Various, to me at least, has the same sort of connotations as several. Definitely more than two.

It was just that I looked at it and I immediately caught that the slash pairing was inherently wrong. So. Oops.

It's just that I'd been a little busy with the Aaron-Sorkin-worship and that jolted me out of it and into hysterical laughter.

And I'm just gonna go keep reading now.

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You know the way they have different drafts of a script on different colours of paper? And at the top of the script they have a list of the revised scripts and their correlating colours?

Isn't that just precious?

And don't they use the weirdest-ass colours sometimes?

And, y'know, pretty soon I'm gonna be going home to kith and kin and I'm currently chowing down on Ryvita so I'm not the bounciest of children right now. But that may change if I find a corkscrew.

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So I found the corkscrew and I opened a bottle of red wine. Now, I don't drink much wine, but it's grown on me, and I have a feeling this bottle will be gone before I get on the bus home. Though I have no idea how wine-tasters do it. And I really need to work on my descriptors. Because while I get "sort of fruity and sharp", they apparently get "mature notes of cassis, raspberries and moccha combined with smoky flavours".

And the bit before? I just read the episode where AC and BC has occurred, and I have to say, even knowing that it's coming? It's a shock. And when A finds out that B has slept with C, he doesn't actually state it, he just points out the tell. And the audience work it out for themselves. Which is good.

And I'm really feeling weird about having lots of icons, because I have to, like, choose which one to use. And while one out of three isn't that hard a choice, one out of ten is. But. Yeah.

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So I'm still reading scripts and my god the slashiness of that show at times, and I don't even get the way they look at each other or anything, I just get the actual written text and sub that is so very there...

And I have to go collect my laundry. But I'm waiting for the last song on the CD to finish.

And yes, I am attempting to use all of my icons at least once as soon as possible. You got a problem with that?

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And another thing.

The title of the last show in the first series of Sports Night is "What Kind of Day Has it Been?"

This title is better known to me as the title of the last show in the first series of The West Wing.

Both of these shows are written by Aaron Sorkin.

I'm just saying, re-using titles is not something you should do. No matter if it's one of the better titles from a series with such stellar examples as women's names and random quotes from the script proper.

And I'm not saying I'd do any better, in fact most of my titles are fairly shitty, but... these people are professionals. And I tend to think that someone who gets paid to do something I would love to do for a living ought to be a little better at it than I am!

That is all.