So first, yeah you're right, I was forgetting about Elizabeth's line about the prison. On the other hand, I think my point remains the same - i.e. that the motivation behind that part of the set up was to be able to make Neal look especially impressive by raising the level of difficulty of his escape, rather than it having anything to do with where he would likely really have been sent for forgery, and that the the premise was meant to go in the more "fluffy" (as you so nicely put it) direction. I actually agree with you from the fanfic perspective. I think a writer could take it either way. But I think the intended canon is that Neal's time in prison was not, in fact, traumatic in the way it might have been, especially considering the "where" we've been given.
As to the original script, Jeff Eastin posted a link - I think it was maybe on his Twitter feed - to a website where he'd posted the script. It's a TV writing website of some kind, and a number of pilot scripts are linked on it. Here's the URL:
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Date: 2010-03-20 09:30 pm (UTC)So first, yeah you're right, I was forgetting about Elizabeth's line about the prison. On the other hand, I think my point remains the same - i.e. that the motivation behind that part of the set up was to be able to make Neal look especially impressive by raising the level of difficulty of his escape, rather than it having anything to do with where he would likely really have been sent for forgery, and that the the premise was meant to go in the more "fluffy" (as you so nicely put it) direction. I actually agree with you from the fanfic perspective. I think a writer could take it either way. But I think the intended canon is that Neal's time in prison was not, in fact, traumatic in the way it might have been, especially considering the "where" we've been given.
As to the original script, Jeff Eastin posted a link - I think it was maybe on his Twitter feed - to a website where he'd posted the script. It's a TV writing website of some kind, and a number of pilot scripts are linked on it. Here's the URL:
http://sites.google.com/site/tvwriting/us-drama/pilot-scripts/09-10-season
Enjoy.