I heard y'all loud and clear when you said that watching two non-consecutive hours wasn't enough to dismiss Game of Thrones (at least publicly, anyway). So, now that I'm more than halfway through the first season of The Newsroom, I consider it fair game for me to complain about it at considerable length
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The Newsroom doesn't get the benefit of saying, "well, these specific characters just want flustered, incompetent women around them," so it's much worse there. And word on everything you said about Will being so admirable. There's also an I'll-save-the-day complex with all the men on the show, and he definitely has it.
The thing is, I love Liz Lemon because she eats a lot of junk food and looks messy all the time and has (or had) a tumultuous social life and needs Jack to get her out of jams. I'm trying to figure out Liz doesn't strike me as a sexist character. I think it's because she has the same flaws as the male writers on the show. They all look like dirtbags and have weird relationships.
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By contrast, on Newsroom, I don't think the audience is being guided toward considering Will a deeply flawed person, even when he's showing deep flaws. It rarely goes further than respectful sympathy -- while inviting laughter at the girls.
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I think you are supposed to see Will as a flawed person. But he's like the person in a job interview who is asked for his weakness and says, "I"m a perfectionist," "I'm too good at things," "I'm so smart that I constantly have to correct everyone around me to help them keep up," etc.
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