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Honestly, guys, I just can't bring myself to write about anything else these days. :(
I still never got my hands on last week's episode, but I decided I didn't care that much. I know the gist of what happened, and reactions were pretty mixed anyway.
Last night's episode was good, though. It felt like The West Wing, or at least as close as it can come these days. Sam was very Sam-like, and I was worried about that, since everyone else has been replaced by pod-people. Every scene with Sam and Josh was just exactly right. Of course Sam, an outsider, someone who knows Josh so entirely well, would be the only one to be able to calm him down. Well, back in the day it would have been Donna, but you know. Not so much now with all the sex they've been having.
It's hard to watch this as the ending. I'm sort of half-heartedly enjoying it, but it just doesn't do anything for me the way it once did. These aren't really the same characters, they're all so much sadder. Not that they weren't beautifully broken people before, but at least before they managed to find ways to be happy. Now they all just sort of walk around with this immense saddness weighing them down, and that's not how I want to see them go out.
As a side note, though, I read that article that said if John Spencer hadn't died, TPTB were going to have Vinick win the election, and it was just one more reason to hate the whole John Wells camp. They really were foreshadowing the Santos campaign crashing and burning, because somewhere along the way they decided Josh was a nutcase who couldn't handle any sort of real pressure.
I don't know. Actually, I've been thinking a little bit about this whole hate-on for John Wells and how he changed the show. It's interesting that he gets all the blame, when really, how hard would it be to take this beloved show and these characters and try and keep it going as well as it had been before? But also, I know there were contract problems and all that, but Sorkin's the one who walked away. I get that you can't just let networks and producers and whoever else walk all over you, but I'm always a little miffed when someone walks away from their creative endeavors like that. I know it's just television, but it's also art in a way, it's a story you've decided to put out into the world. How do you just give up on and give away your art like that?
It just makes me sad, because the end would have been so good.
It's just one snippet of dialogue really:
Meg: Come on, Veronica. You gotta help me find out who it is. This could turn out to be my soul mate!
Just. Really, Meg, run away. AS FAST AS YOU CAN PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF INTERESTING STORYLINES EVERYWHERE!
Why, yes, I'm smack dab in the middle of a S1 rewatch. Which only serves to highlight the problems with S2 even more. So maybe I shouldn't be doing this so close to the finale, but whatever. I watched through Betty and Veronica last night, and I think it's totally underrated. I love it to pieces, even if that line about Wallace's "purity of spirit" makes me want to throw up a little every time. Also, I kinda liked Richie and Zeke. They should have come back in some big Pan/Neptune rivalry senior prank thing. It would have been fun.
I'm chugging along with S1 of Six Feet Under. The only thing I really have to say at this point, though, is that Michael C. Hall just completely owns that entire cast. Where did he come from and why is not wildly famous?
I still never got my hands on last week's episode, but I decided I didn't care that much. I know the gist of what happened, and reactions were pretty mixed anyway.
Last night's episode was good, though. It felt like The West Wing, or at least as close as it can come these days. Sam was very Sam-like, and I was worried about that, since everyone else has been replaced by pod-people. Every scene with Sam and Josh was just exactly right. Of course Sam, an outsider, someone who knows Josh so entirely well, would be the only one to be able to calm him down. Well, back in the day it would have been Donna, but you know. Not so much now with all the sex they've been having.
It's hard to watch this as the ending. I'm sort of half-heartedly enjoying it, but it just doesn't do anything for me the way it once did. These aren't really the same characters, they're all so much sadder. Not that they weren't beautifully broken people before, but at least before they managed to find ways to be happy. Now they all just sort of walk around with this immense saddness weighing them down, and that's not how I want to see them go out.
As a side note, though, I read that article that said if John Spencer hadn't died, TPTB were going to have Vinick win the election, and it was just one more reason to hate the whole John Wells camp. They really were foreshadowing the Santos campaign crashing and burning, because somewhere along the way they decided Josh was a nutcase who couldn't handle any sort of real pressure.
I don't know. Actually, I've been thinking a little bit about this whole hate-on for John Wells and how he changed the show. It's interesting that he gets all the blame, when really, how hard would it be to take this beloved show and these characters and try and keep it going as well as it had been before? But also, I know there were contract problems and all that, but Sorkin's the one who walked away. I get that you can't just let networks and producers and whoever else walk all over you, but I'm always a little miffed when someone walks away from their creative endeavors like that. I know it's just television, but it's also art in a way, it's a story you've decided to put out into the world. How do you just give up on and give away your art like that?
It just makes me sad, because the end would have been so good.
It's just one snippet of dialogue really:
Meg: Come on, Veronica. You gotta help me find out who it is. This could turn out to be my soul mate!
Just. Really, Meg, run away. AS FAST AS YOU CAN PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF INTERESTING STORYLINES EVERYWHERE!
Why, yes, I'm smack dab in the middle of a S1 rewatch. Which only serves to highlight the problems with S2 even more. So maybe I shouldn't be doing this so close to the finale, but whatever. I watched through Betty and Veronica last night, and I think it's totally underrated. I love it to pieces, even if that line about Wallace's "purity of spirit" makes me want to throw up a little every time. Also, I kinda liked Richie and Zeke. They should have come back in some big Pan/Neptune rivalry senior prank thing. It would have been fun.
I'm chugging along with S1 of Six Feet Under. The only thing I really have to say at this point, though, is that Michael C. Hall just completely owns that entire cast. Where did he come from and why is not wildly famous?