Status; Studio 60, R.

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Thank you for your patience!

Comments

[elucreh.livejournal.com]

ACK.

I love you.

I like the sketch!

I like the dynamic, I like the fact that they are together because they're not fighting for power but appreciate one another's qualities, I like Matt interrupting the Serious Relationship Talk to discuss his sketchbunnies.

And I love Matt saying, "-- I'd really like to have loud, rough sex."

[elucreh.livejournal.com]

Oh! And the bit where the sex being what counts as cheating bothers Danny? Yes. Yes, I love that, I love that attitude and it also seems an extremely Danny attitude to me.

[sam-storyteller.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I had fun with the sketch :D

[altorogue.livejournal.com]

Oh, I liked that! Especially the sketch at the end . .

[scififreak.livejournal.com]

Oh, I love this. Awesome explanation/look at the Danny/Matt BFF/Maybe More dynamic. And I love how it's kinda dysfunctional, but also really really works for them. Without much conflict or angst. It just is. And you make me wonder, like Matt, where they'll end up. If Danny and Jordan work out (and how freakin' awesome and cute is Jordan?) and Matt and Harriet...uh, something. What will happen with Matt and Danny? Will they always somehow end up together and finally admit that they should just, you know, be together? Hmm. *ponders*

[sam-storyteller.livejournal.com]

Danny/Jordan actually makes me like Jordan more than I did. It's like adding him makes her make sense. :D

[hazelhawthorne.livejournal.com]

You wear the big hat.

[sam-storyteller.livejournal.com]

HAH! Thank you! I need to make an icon.

[lore]

Perfect.

love, lore

[kangeiko]

this is fabulous and perfectly in character!

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

Brilliant. And again, you come up with a sketch that would fit perfectly into the show, but more than that, you really make all the ships and snogs *work*. And I don't think Sorkin makes Harriet/Matt work *at all*.

[sam-storyteller.livejournal.com]

Aww, thank you :)

I'm so all over Matt/Suzanne. She's oddly bitchy now that she works for him, it's fantastic.

[trinity_clare]

This almost makes me want to watch this show. I think I might be better off reading the fic. Because this was perfect, and the idea of cheating being so much more than sex? You nailed that. Along with everything else.

[sam-storyteller.livejournal.com]

Hey trust me. My fic is not as good as the show -- at least, not as good as the episode it came after. That episode was AWESOME.

You can watch this week's episode on the Studio 60 website at NBC, btw.

[trinity_clare]

I am still not used to the idea of networks putting their shows online. Thanks for the tip.

[slinkiestumble.livejournal.com]

Oh so Matt. Oh so Danny. Oh so perfect.

[sam-storyteller.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I had fun writing all their amazing digressions :D

[futuresoon.livejournal.com]

Ohhh man. I haven't seen the new episode yet (I torrent), but this makes me miss the show liek woah and the break's barely even started yet! Everything about this is just really, really lovely. I think I tend to like it better when writers don't actually show the sex--it makes things, um, somehow hotter. (That doesn't really make sense. I don't care.)

Fic: Status

[secondsilk.livejournal.com]

Excellent.
Get argument about sex and infidelity, too, I really get Danny's confusion about the idea of lines and understanding.
I love the way they come back together. And their arguments about it are perfect.

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

I've started to write feedback for this six times and each time I sound so dumb--I'm going to go with OMG yes, the voices! The patter!" and leave it at that before I sound even dopier. ^_^

[sam-storyteller.livejournal.com]

*grins* Thank you! OMG will suffice :D

[boxofdelights]

I don't watch the show but

The truth is, when Matt and Jeannie don't have anyone else they do sometimes end up together.

is that supposed to be "Matt and Danny"?

[sam-storyteller.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the note, but it is actually Jeannie -- it's from the second episode. Matt and Jeannie have a fling, which annoys Jeannie's best friend (who is Matt's ex). Jeannie explains it to her thus: "When we don't have anyone else, sometimes we end up with each other." :)

[boxofdelights]

Ah! I should have known it was just me not being familiar with the source.

[scsquidsnaps.livejournal.com]

I totally blame you for giving me a new addiction.
I'm reading your story Laocoon's Children (awesome, btw) and I saw this.
So now I'm reading Studio 60 fic..
But anyway, this is great.
Please do more.

Danny hates the fact that spending fourteen hours a day with Matt isn't considered cheating but spending ten minutes rubbing up against him in a dark bedroom is.
I love it.

[sam-storyteller.livejournal.com]

Glad you enjoyed it! :)

[prettyquotable.livejournal.com]

I'd love to leave a coherent comment, but I think I'm just going to go with

aklsfnak;lnfasnfs;a;fa;knfas.

Because that's what this fic has reduced me to. Amazing.

[ola-sw.livejournal.com]

You know, all I can think of reading this is the symposium and that whole gay sex and intellectual discussion as a couple notion. That's unsettling.

[celia311.livejournal.com]

I loved this fic. The way you show the emotions between those two are wonderful. Love Danny's musings on what is and isn't cheating.

[ruisseau.livejournal.com]

I am grinning from ear-to-ear. I had to wait until I could catch up with the show to read this, but I'm glad I remembered it was here. :)

If only Sam's Three Things were tagged so I could find them...

[torchthisnow.livejournal.com]

I came to this a bit late, as I was reading some of your Harry Potter work earlier, and I was browsing around looking for other fandoms you might have written in that I share. And in spite of the fact that I didn't actually like Studio 60 that much, I seem to have a weird and inescapable soft spot for it, and a similar weird and inescapable fondness for S60 fic.

This was lovely and I really enjoyed reading it! You're very talented.

[sam-storyteller.livejournal.com]

I don't think anyone liked S60 by the end of it :D Glad you enjoyed the fic!

[amethyst-lupin.livejournal.com]

I'm having moment here, because I completely stumbled on this fic by accident... OMG Studio 60!!! *squees* You have no idea how happy this made me tonight.

Danny's and Matt's voices are so in character and I love Danny's whole take on cheating and sex :) It was fantastic!