some choice caps with real captions from The McDanno Wedding Date™
considering someone had to pick and match the camera shots with the audio/voice over, a lot of interesting editing choices pop up 😏
actual lyrics that play over the scene in the beginning 'i will love you longer than forever'
witness the marriage? i sure am. THEE marriage.
the way camera keeps cutting away to them when love is mentioned
whose love? what are you trying to say to us with this editing? 🤔 the way episodic tv works is we have the main characters and the episodic characters and usually the storylines episodic character get are meant to parallel what is going on in life of the mains or teach them a lesson or help them come to a decision.
this episode already has drawn parallels between aunt Deb and Steve, and her relationship to Bob with Steve's 'not-marriage' to Danny. and then they keep cutting away to them during the marriage ceremony with some of the wedding vows written as if about Steve and Danny's relationship ('I can't even remember my life before you came along and changed everything.')
again, camera firmly on them at 'my one in a million and all I want is...' the way that sentence ends is, I am not kidding ↓
'...to be your husband'. 'you are my one in a million and all i want is to be your husband'.
'you are my one in a million and all I want is to be your husband.'
that is the message they are sending while intercutting the newlyweds with Steve and Danny, only to end everything on a shot of very emotional Steve, close to tearing up, as if highlighting that we are seeing it from his POV.
if you think they are some pirated automatic captions that mean nothing, well
here's the kicker, 100% official approved.
the story of Aunt Deb is hopeful despite circumstances, that happiness can be found when you least expect it, and everyone has their own, unique
paradise. Hawai'i is commonly referred to as a 'tropical paradise', Danny famously called it 'pineapple-infested hellhole', it only gained the positive meaning for Steve and Danny after they found each other.
Steve and Danny really went to a wedding together and were constantly edited to parallel the newlyweds-to-be. Anyone may argue that I'm just reading into things but it's a fact that nothing on TV is accidental. Someone made all those choices that could be interpreted this way and I find that very interesting indeed. 😏
