12 Monkeys Season 1 Deleted Scenes
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annavereAlright, so I'm backtracking to watch all this material. Three posts forthcoming.
1. Extra post-apocalyptic sauce for 'Splinter,' which was lacking in such things. Cole/Ramse wander around the CDC getting attacked by Scavs. I can see why they cut this, because it doesn't do much to introduce Ramse, except as being more cautious than Cole, but it's got great atmosphere. The violence is somewhat dialed back, as Cole takes out both Scavs very quickly and without going berserker on either of them, even the one trying to crush Ramse's windpipe.
"You're getting old, man." Ooh, old man joke foreshadowing!
Seeing Cassie's skeletal remains registers far more painfully than it did on first go round. Yikes.
2. Gorgeous bit where Ramse says bon voyage to Cole on his first splinter, and is having second thoughts and offering Cole a way out (presumably by blasting their way through the scientists and soldiers). His original argument begins much earlier in this sequence, as he says that as bad as it is, surviving out there is doable. He must have had second thoughts fairly early about his plan to save his brother's soul. In fact, from a certain point of view, this entire show is actually his fault for betraying Cole during their escape.
Also, "we'll never have met in the first place?" That is true, given that the Monkeys murder Cole's father, hence he winds up in the system, but neither of them know that yet. Continuity snarl. Pity, because Ramse's expression is so doleful and loving, and he's holding Cole's hand so tenderly in farewell.
I miss Ramse.
3. Hey, it's Leland Goines! How... thrilling. Who didn't want more scenes with Leland? And this is mostly exposition and dastardly villain behavior, so again this makes sense left out.
4. Cole's cute reaction to the cheeseburger is compounded by a chocolate milkshake and now I'm hungry. Also, sweet innocent Cassie who doesn't want to kill anyone hurts my heart.
Interesting early reveal of Cole's bad actions, when he remembers Scavs attacking people in the snow, and it's shown that he's one of them, not a fearful witness or fellow victim.
5. 'Mentally Divergent.' More bits of apocalyptic local color. Cole stumbles across a baby doll while surveying a scene of carnage, so clearly that guy from the Baltimore Sun survived the plague (apologies for the obscure Wire joke).
6. Local color from J.D. Peoples, with the most interesting bit being Cole seeing the crazy man he's talking to as someone to offer to protect, instead of some new type of threat to bodyslam into the nearest furniture. I mean, he slaps him, but that's practically being a model citizen for Cole at this point in time.
7. 'The Night Room.' One line of technobabble from poor doomed ginger scientist. Okay.
8. 'Yesterday.' Colonel Foster's coup shown in greater detail, with an overlaid sermon in which Foster lies his ass off about what happened. I'm glad this was cut, because it damages the wonderful ambiguity of this two-parter by painting him with too broad a brush. But hey, he's sermonizing to a room full of kindergardeners we never see again after Katarina destroys Spearhead, so on second thought, the ambiguity is doing just fine.
9. Oh dear lord, it's Aaron, and the bookshop, and the two of them have actual friends! Good friends, by the looks of it, who invite them to Hawaii and stuff. Cassie is grieving for Cole since the Chechnya incident, and she's back together with Aaron, and everything's so normal I could cry. I wish this one had been kept, just to emphasize what she's about to lose when Cole returns. And I still like Aaron.
As outtakes go, I have to say these are quite high quality.
1. Extra post-apocalyptic sauce for 'Splinter,' which was lacking in such things. Cole/Ramse wander around the CDC getting attacked by Scavs. I can see why they cut this, because it doesn't do much to introduce Ramse, except as being more cautious than Cole, but it's got great atmosphere. The violence is somewhat dialed back, as Cole takes out both Scavs very quickly and without going berserker on either of them, even the one trying to crush Ramse's windpipe.
"You're getting old, man." Ooh, old man joke foreshadowing!
Seeing Cassie's skeletal remains registers far more painfully than it did on first go round. Yikes.
2. Gorgeous bit where Ramse says bon voyage to Cole on his first splinter, and is having second thoughts and offering Cole a way out (presumably by blasting their way through the scientists and soldiers). His original argument begins much earlier in this sequence, as he says that as bad as it is, surviving out there is doable. He must have had second thoughts fairly early about his plan to save his brother's soul. In fact, from a certain point of view, this entire show is actually his fault for betraying Cole during their escape.
Also, "we'll never have met in the first place?" That is true, given that the Monkeys murder Cole's father, hence he winds up in the system, but neither of them know that yet. Continuity snarl. Pity, because Ramse's expression is so doleful and loving, and he's holding Cole's hand so tenderly in farewell.
I miss Ramse.
3. Hey, it's Leland Goines! How... thrilling. Who didn't want more scenes with Leland? And this is mostly exposition and dastardly villain behavior, so again this makes sense left out.
4. Cole's cute reaction to the cheeseburger is compounded by a chocolate milkshake and now I'm hungry. Also, sweet innocent Cassie who doesn't want to kill anyone hurts my heart.
Interesting early reveal of Cole's bad actions, when he remembers Scavs attacking people in the snow, and it's shown that he's one of them, not a fearful witness or fellow victim.
5. 'Mentally Divergent.' More bits of apocalyptic local color. Cole stumbles across a baby doll while surveying a scene of carnage, so clearly that guy from the Baltimore Sun survived the plague (apologies for the obscure Wire joke).
6. Local color from J.D. Peoples, with the most interesting bit being Cole seeing the crazy man he's talking to as someone to offer to protect, instead of some new type of threat to bodyslam into the nearest furniture. I mean, he slaps him, but that's practically being a model citizen for Cole at this point in time.
7. 'The Night Room.' One line of technobabble from poor doomed ginger scientist. Okay.
8. 'Yesterday.' Colonel Foster's coup shown in greater detail, with an overlaid sermon in which Foster lies his ass off about what happened. I'm glad this was cut, because it damages the wonderful ambiguity of this two-parter by painting him with too broad a brush. But hey, he's sermonizing to a room full of kindergardeners we never see again after Katarina destroys Spearhead, so on second thought, the ambiguity is doing just fine.
9. Oh dear lord, it's Aaron, and the bookshop, and the two of them have actual friends! Good friends, by the looks of it, who invite them to Hawaii and stuff. Cassie is grieving for Cole since the Chechnya incident, and she's back together with Aaron, and everything's so normal I could cry. I wish this one had been kept, just to emphasize what she's about to lose when Cole returns. And I still like Aaron.
As outtakes go, I have to say these are quite high quality.
