But I do appreciate him introducing me to the wonder that is the capybara.

I have to admit the one time I felt any pang of empathy for him was when he hugged Ben during the night shoot and put his head on Ben's shoulder. AWK-WARD.

But Len didn't originally give him the line they ended up using. In the meeting he tells Jason they need a scene, to clarify Fiona's motivations, where she realizes she's more like her father than she wants to admit. It's only when they're on set that we hear Len's suggested line.

Jason probably pissed off as many people as Effie did, though. So it was the battle of two competent people with deep character flaws that make roughly half the people they work with want to strangle them.

If anyone watches The Mindy Project, the most recent episode released has the new Southern doctor talking about his beloved nanny … Effie.

Ten years?

Wow, you look exactly like Marc Joubert. Are you twins? Or are you clones? Are you a Castor? I watch Orphan Black. Nothing good comes from hanging with Castors.

It's okay. You're good enough, you're smart enough … and goshdarnit, people like you.

Don't you always speculate on how sad, desperate and lonely Effie's life must be? I mean, maybe it is, but without any substantiating evidence … that's just mean!

Not really. I know it was years ago, but Aidan Quinn had zero interest in playing politics when he was involved in a PG movie. His anger, resentment and bitterness toward the amateur hour that was that set was palpable, and what made the first season so great.

They were also in a big time crunch to get it done. A lot of stuff can be rushed, but you don't want to rush a car crash, if you're concerned about the safety of the driver.

No, Joubert said Jason was right … but … they didn't have the time or the budget to do it.

I get that, I was just wondering if, absent having the experience of actually witnessing a fatal accident, if we don't have a warped idea of what they look like from movies.

Well, we can't possibly know what was going on in Ed Weeks' head, so I'd rather take what I saw on screen at face value and assume he was being dryly humorous at first then corrected himself.

Well, yeah. They're dash cams. You're seeing what the driver sees. But seen from outside the accident, they don't look the way movies, or tv, portray them because we aren't told what to focus on.

While the crash did look pathetic, and even I couldn't completely hate on Jason for how awful it looked in the episode, I wonder how much the editing can work with it to make it look bigger?

If you mean his remarks in the episode, he was being dry. He corrected himself right after and seemed quite happy with being involved in the movie.

I'm not arguing that he's right, I'm saying that his opinion colors how he works with his production team. He sees them as adversaries in place to make him fail, causing him to be an even bigger jerk every time someone, specifically Effie, says no to him.

Of course it could, but she should have taken the story into account when choosing who to work with on casting. It's not even that they're being prejudiced, but the default in Hollywood is "rich = white." Without a person of color involved in casting, there was no one to push back on the default. She bears some of the…

My point was less how she would have responded after the fact than the fact that on a film that would very likely end up with not a single POC in a speaking role, she still chose, on her very diverse team that she so very proudly touted, two white casting agents.