Unpopular fannish opinion
Really. No, really. It's about Studio 60, and it's not favorable.
Aaron Sorkin loves not us. Gertrude in her ratty bathrobe? Fat, unpopular, jealous Gertrude who can't spell? That's you and me, babe. That's who he's writing for, because TPTB are gods and we are Gertrude.
Sorkin is a genius with dialogue, and when the plots involved serious world issues I cut him an awful lot of slack because I was so happy to see characters who cared about broader issues on a non-genre show, but tonight I actually told my TV, "I don't need your disrespect" and turned it off.
The thing is, Aaron -- and does it invalidate the sentiment that I learned it from Farscape? -- you can be more. But until you respect the audience the way you want them to respect the storyteller, you and I are done.
Aaron Sorkin loves not us. Gertrude in her ratty bathrobe? Fat, unpopular, jealous Gertrude who can't spell? That's you and me, babe. That's who he's writing for, because TPTB are gods and we are Gertrude.
Sorkin is a genius with dialogue, and when the plots involved serious world issues I cut him an awful lot of slack because I was so happy to see characters who cared about broader issues on a non-genre show, but tonight I actually told my TV, "I don't need your disrespect" and turned it off.
The thing is, Aaron -- and does it invalidate the sentiment that I learned it from Farscape? -- you can be more. But until you respect the audience the way you want them to respect the storyteller, you and I are done.