*director voice* yeah, iām gonna need a little bit more.
andrew, you were just in a cell with/close to varian for a year. right now, youāre holding him hundreds of feet above the ground. sure, you can have a huge grin or a steely expression, but iāll need a flicker of something before either of those. disappointment, anger, hurt, anything! show me the depth, please.
varian, you have more of an excuse to solely be afraidā yeah, the about-to-die thing, i know, and iām sorry about thatā but we can work something else in there, canāt we? a pleading look. betrayal. anger! did you always see this coming, or does this come as a shock to you? with the context of the episode, iām guessing itās the latter, but i want to see the emotions that go with the shock! youāre not ever gonna bring this guy up again, so we need to make this count!
in fact⦠okay, iām flipping through the script, and i think we need to work some dialogue in here. right, we have the ātraitors to saporia pay with their livesā and āno! noā thing, which is good, but maybe we can have something after that exchange?
what if we alluded to some inside joke you two have? not in a silly āremember that time whenāā way, but more of an āi thought you were never mean, right, andrew?ā
guys, itās just⦠this is our last opportunity to play with this rich dynamic we saw almost nothing of! we have to do something more than āyouāre a traitorā and a fearful gasp of ānoā that is more aimed toward the ground than andrew!
oh. oh, never mind. looks like the scriptās already finalized.
just go ahead and drop him, i guess.