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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mel O&#039;Drama" data-source="post: 264804" data-attributes="member: 23">On the subject of these friendships, Writer James D. Parriott and director Alan J. Levi’s commentary for Mirror Image is equally as enjoyable. They get on really well with a nice energy between them, which seems to come from friendship (or at the very least, respect and a very amiable working relationship). They mention how they chose to work the same episodes where possible. It’s also good to hear them discussing other members of the crew. Like story editor Arthur Rowe’s chain smoking and tendency to flick his ash into the air on set so it ended up in everyone’s clothes and hair. James credits Rowe as having an influence on his writing when James asked for some input on writing the Lisa Galloway story. Arthur advised him to approach it from the double’s point of view, which fleshed out the story no end (I wonder if this would be on the Season Two two-parter, where this approach was done brilliantly). This character approach is something he’s held onto since then.I liked that the guys didn’t have an encyclopaedic knowledge of the show - or even of the episode (one of them asked a couple of times if this was filmed in the late Sixties). It helped the audio commentary feel spontaneous and immediate, which adds to the enjoyment factor. I get the sense that they’re busy guys who put all their focus into their current job. They also made a number of comments about the differences in Seventies productions and those of the present day, from the cars to the writing. Which gives exchanges like this:</blockquote>

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