in vain have i struggled. it will not do.
I've been having a smushy romcom-seeking kind of holiday weekend. For nostalgia purposes, I reread Pride & Prejudice over the break and forgot just how much I enjoy so much of it, and how great the Darcy/Lizzy bantering is. And how much I love some of the side characters, even -- the 1940 adaptation always played Lady Catherine de Bourgh as being a
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The show is so long per episode, so I'll see how long it takes me to finish, but yeah. I mean, I don't hate Will. I actually like him fine, and have since the pilot. But he's smug and egotistical and he yells a lot and he's such a representation of Sorkin in the way that he sees himself that the smugness is kind of overpowering. And yeah, I'm just floored by the ladies, mostly, and then also Jim and Neal. It's way preachier than some of his other stuff (or, at least, more visibly preachy) but it's Sorkin doing himself. It's going to be idealistic and it's going to be moral (although the argument in Will's office about how they have to make the news about the news again and not about ratings was just soooo heavy-handed) and it's going to have walk-and-talks and be fast with a flashy kind of dialogue. You know what you walk into when you're dealing with Sorkin so anyone who complains, I'm just sort of like ... and?
Oh, I'm totally onboard with them. I mean, I hope that they don't continue to play it too much as like Will being the wronged man, but I'm down for everything about it so far. The fact that essentially they can say no to anything except each other, that they are absolutely in love with each other but they each ruined it in their own unique ways, and that he took to destroying himself in the aftermath of the destruction of his relationship.
(OH, sidebar: I also really dig Sam Waterston's character? Like way to go, show.)
The thing is that they might be evenly matched for Jim and Maggie for me, just because I find Jim and Maggie much more interesting individually in the relationship, but I find Will and Mac's relationship much more interesting, if that makes sense. Like Jim and Maggie hits a lot of the usual tropes that I love - boys who are in love with oblivious girls, awkward timing, the unrequited part of it - and Jim himself is just such a great character outside of his pisspoor writing in the one-sided relationship thus far that I'm on board. And Jim - at least, in the first three episodes - brings out this aggressive side to Maggie. She might not be less nervous when he's around but she's more assertive and she's not afraid to yell at him and he calms her down and it's all everything that I love.
I WILL TOTALLY TALK TO YOU ABOUT IT WHEN I CATCH UP. Slash make more LJ posts about it.
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