# ghliveblog

Who says this line earnestly IRL?? Wouldn’t you be at least a little embarrassed!!!

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I feel like I stick Graham with the “nobody in real life talks like this” lines, but someone had to say it

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I was frustrated because “Lucy’s search hurts the chefs” comes up every arc, and I couldn’t figure out a way to put a newer spin on it! It just repeats!!!

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In the original thumbnails Jacobi fed this to Lucy to show how he’s in control of the conversation, but I was like “No they’re in a fancy restaurant, that’s rude and too weird”

So I just had Jacobi assemble it and hand it to her lol

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This was around the time I finally started to get ahold of Jacobi’s motivations—and I finally knew how I wanted to portray Jacobi as a reflection of Lucy

(I mean, there was still a lot of other things I hadn’t figured out plotwise, but at least I got one thing!)

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I MESSED UP THE TIMELINE HERE, I imply that Jacobi is currently both 28 and 30 within the same episode..... Jacobi is ageless

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I purposefully gave Lynn a similar pantsuit + bag to when Lucy met Graham! I wanted to draw a strong association between Lucy and Lynn

(I don’t expect readers to notice it, but more like “I can see where Lucy gets her sense of dress from!”)

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This dinner scene wasn’t originally set at Dimanche (it was going to be another Dimanche chef’s restaurant), but I wanted it to feel super charged for both of them, so I decided to set it there!

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I had coffee with my friend Janelle while she was in HI, and she doodled stuff on my iPad while we talked—and a lot of them ended up on Clem’s clothing lol, the weird little boy pattern is one of her doodles

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I wanted to emphasize the parallels between Jacobi and Lucy—both have extraordinary skills (eidetic memory, super olfaction/supertaster) that people think they are squandering

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Oof this is me still trying to figure out Jacobi’s motivations—like, is he still using Lucy as a way to Graham?? That’s how the questions seem!

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This is minor, but the reason Jacobi doesn’t look at the menu is because he has a photographic memory—so he’s always looking at Lucy in this scene

I just wanted to give him gestures that felt a little off, even if you don’t consciously register them!

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Jacobi is purposefully invoking Lynn to build Lucy’s goodwill, but I also wanted to show that Jacobi DID actually follow Lynn’s advice and arrive early, because Jacobi IS actually a lot like Lucy

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This is the first time Lucy is in a dress! Lucy’s normal style is pants-based, so the only times I put her her in dresses are for scenes where I want to give the sense that she’s out of her element (this scene, the cooking competition, Lynn’s funeral)

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Jacobi is also a separated from the chefs of previous arcs because he ended up in a non-commercial kitchen—I wanted to explore what Lucy could do/how far she’d go when the cooking of one of the Dimanche chefs is almost completely inaccessible

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This is a minor characterization thing, but Graham plays guitar!

His sister Laura (current music teacher, former band/theater kid) forced him to learn so he could accompany her and her friends while they sang Rent or something

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I didn’t intend for this to look like the BA test kitchen, I grew up on Cook’s Country and America’s Test Kitchen for my test kitchen entertainment

But who am I fooling, this looks EXACTLY like the BA test kitchen lmao

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The only shoe brand details I kept account of are 1) Graham wears black Converse 2) Jacobi wears Adidas (or loafers) and 3) Clementine wears Crocs

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B+B’s offices being in the same building as Joanna’s publisher is how Joanna would’ve met Carlisle, and how Lucy would’ve met Jacobi—but without Carlisle, now it just feels like a happy accident that they met ha ha

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Originally, right after the Holiday arc, there was supposed to be 1-2 flashback eps about how the Apple trio met as setup for the Carlisle arc (which would’ve been Joanna and Walt-focused)

That’s why the introduction of Jacobi feels abrupt, there were no buffer eps!

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