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Heh, even though 75% of the Hallmark movies go this way, that still doesn't stop me at yelling at the TV with incredulity. You know how it is- things start going really well at the hour mark, then at the 1:30 mark, one side of the couple or the other overhears something and they have a total misunderstanding and get upset at the other person. But instead of talking it out, they end up being short and passive aggressive.
Then after the last commercial break, there's a deus ex machina to correct them of their notions. Most likely someone being all, "Oh, you thought they were leaving for that big job out of state! No, they turned it down!" or "No, they're not in love with that person you saw them with, they broke up!" or "they're just friends", or "that's really their brother or sister or cousin, you dummy!" Or "Oh, you thought they were making the heartless, corporate choice and screwing over your business?! No, they came up with some dream solution that somehow saves your little shop while still satisfying the corporate bottom line!"
But like I said, even though I know its going to work out the same way all the time, I still scream in frustration anyways. Which is why I really the other 25% of the time when these movies don't follow that formula.
Last night's "Meet Me at Christmas" is the former though. So basically, it starts off in the 90s, boy meets girl, resolve to meet at a Christmas tree lighting, but then it cuts to 28 years later. One presumes that the two get married and are the parents of the groom who's wedding is on Christmas Eve (who gets married on Christmas Eve!), but nope, we found out girl got stood up, and low and behold, boy is the bride's uncle.
It takes maybe the first thirty minutes for the couple to figure out who they were, and from then on its drama, because had they gotten together, then she wouldn't have had her son and the little time she got with her actual son before he died, and she didn't want to ruin the love story her son had in his head. That she met and fell in love with his dad at the Christmas Tree lighting, so she didn't want to let him know the reality was that she was waiting for the other guy, and she got stood up and fell for his dad.
Anyways, she won't let the dude tell him why he stood her up, and by the time it gets to the end, I feel like, it doesn't matter, they made up, But then the bride's dad tells the story of how he begged his brother to take him to see Santa when he was a kid, but then he was so excited he broke free of his brother's hand and ran into the street. So the dude saved his brother, but they both ended up in the hospital. And that's why he never showed up. Which, of all the reasons I was expecting to hear, that wasn't one of them, because c'mon, that's a little too much. Like did they have to make it so panty-dropping? "Oh, lady, the reason he stood you up was because he was in the hospital for months, having saved his little brother from death!"
TV commentary:
The Mandalorian- Heh, looking at Tumblr, I didn't know there was so much discourse about a certain character. Like Bo Katan is apparently a divisive character in the fandom- some love her because she's a bad-ass, others hate her because they find her actions during her initial debut in TCW as unforgivable. Like they take umbrage at her "You are a child of the Watch" line and saying she's one to talk, having been a high ranking Deathwatch member herself.
Now, obviously, the folks in the Deathwatch took off their helmets in TCW. So when she calls him a "Child of the Watch", I don't think that's a flowery description of the Deathwatch, I think she might mean a splinter group of the DeathWatch called the "Children of the Watch". But yeah, I digress. So I've seen some people being offended at her, "You're one of those!" and equating it with Islamophobia like telling someone to take off their hijab, which I think is reading too much into things.
So there are some who hate her for that. And there are others who think she's a hypocrite, because she started out a bad guy and in their opinions her actions of helping Pre Vizla take over lead to her sister's death. Of course, there are folks who are very anti-Satine, because they feel her idea of turning Mandalore into a pacifist society is tantamount to "ethnocide".
Anyways, like I said, she's not a perfect character, but does everything need to be so deep? Can't we just enjoy a show where people get into adventures, solve mysteries, and kick ass?
Then after the last commercial break, there's a deus ex machina to correct them of their notions. Most likely someone being all, "Oh, you thought they were leaving for that big job out of state! No, they turned it down!" or "No, they're not in love with that person you saw them with, they broke up!" or "they're just friends", or "that's really their brother or sister or cousin, you dummy!" Or "Oh, you thought they were making the heartless, corporate choice and screwing over your business?! No, they came up with some dream solution that somehow saves your little shop while still satisfying the corporate bottom line!"
But like I said, even though I know its going to work out the same way all the time, I still scream in frustration anyways. Which is why I really the other 25% of the time when these movies don't follow that formula.
Last night's "Meet Me at Christmas" is the former though. So basically, it starts off in the 90s, boy meets girl, resolve to meet at a Christmas tree lighting, but then it cuts to 28 years later. One presumes that the two get married and are the parents of the groom who's wedding is on Christmas Eve (who gets married on Christmas Eve!), but nope, we found out girl got stood up, and low and behold, boy is the bride's uncle.
It takes maybe the first thirty minutes for the couple to figure out who they were, and from then on its drama, because had they gotten together, then she wouldn't have had her son and the little time she got with her actual son before he died, and she didn't want to ruin the love story her son had in his head. That she met and fell in love with his dad at the Christmas Tree lighting, so she didn't want to let him know the reality was that she was waiting for the other guy, and she got stood up and fell for his dad.
Anyways, she won't let the dude tell him why he stood her up, and by the time it gets to the end, I feel like, it doesn't matter, they made up, But then the bride's dad tells the story of how he begged his brother to take him to see Santa when he was a kid, but then he was so excited he broke free of his brother's hand and ran into the street. So the dude saved his brother, but they both ended up in the hospital. And that's why he never showed up. Which, of all the reasons I was expecting to hear, that wasn't one of them, because c'mon, that's a little too much. Like did they have to make it so panty-dropping? "Oh, lady, the reason he stood you up was because he was in the hospital for months, having saved his little brother from death!"
TV commentary:
The Mandalorian- Heh, looking at Tumblr, I didn't know there was so much discourse about a certain character. Like Bo Katan is apparently a divisive character in the fandom- some love her because she's a bad-ass, others hate her because they find her actions during her initial debut in TCW as unforgivable. Like they take umbrage at her "You are a child of the Watch" line and saying she's one to talk, having been a high ranking Deathwatch member herself.
Now, obviously, the folks in the Deathwatch took off their helmets in TCW. So when she calls him a "Child of the Watch", I don't think that's a flowery description of the Deathwatch, I think she might mean a splinter group of the DeathWatch called the "Children of the Watch". But yeah, I digress. So I've seen some people being offended at her, "You're one of those!" and equating it with Islamophobia like telling someone to take off their hijab, which I think is reading too much into things.
So there are some who hate her for that. And there are others who think she's a hypocrite, because she started out a bad guy and in their opinions her actions of helping Pre Vizla take over lead to her sister's death. Of course, there are folks who are very anti-Satine, because they feel her idea of turning Mandalore into a pacifist society is tantamount to "ethnocide".
Anyways, like I said, she's not a perfect character, but does everything need to be so deep? Can't we just enjoy a show where people get into adventures, solve mysteries, and kick ass?