Last Week in TV
Once Upon a Time: D for not being good enough that I needed to see it. Seriously I carved pumpkins through the whole thing. With a hammer.
How I Met Your Mother: C for Weird Al.
Hawai'i Five-0: D for no gratuitous scene of Steve running.
Glee: D for a stupid use of a fantastic song (It's Not Easy Being Green). C for the performance of "Candyman."
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I think I must have switched the channel too many times while they weren't singing, because I honestly can't remember why Emma and Carl didn't work out. I'm assuming you're right, I just didn't have that idea/impression. I should probably watch more carefully DX
I think all the characters have the potential to be much more than they are. It was funny when the show knew that and consciously continued to make them ridiculous and two-dimensional, with the occasional burst of genuine emotion and storytelling, but then they tried to make everyone have these deep, emotional storylines which all ended up being trite or poorly executed. So now I hate them all.
Yeah, I know Will is going to make mistakes (as is everyone), but as a teacher and from knowing teachers, I do hope he realizes how much of what's going on with the kids is his fault. I know that you can't let every small failure get to you, but this is failure of kind of epic proportions, and making kids that are already at the margins feel even more marginalized is just poor judgement that should involve talking and apologies.
Now I want to know what you saw :O
SERIOUSLY RIGHT. That'd be like, grounds for suspension at any of the schools I attended. Unless it was a complete accident. And bullying DOES happen and DOES make kids feel just as awful, so why you can't point out to kids how it DOES happen around them so they can at least be aware is a little beyond me.
Then again, I'm trying to analyze a show that sang "Friday" and made it sound good and sang "Rolling in the Deep" and made it sound bad, so.
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Anyway, I just saw a lot of kids who watched TV or played games and equated it all to real life. I mean, you'd think kids would know better, but not all of them do. Not all of them think a show about high school kids has no relation to real life. And you'd think it would relate to real life because it's about, I don't know, kids attending a high school. Shouldn't it be relateable to the audience?
I mean, the whole thing with Quinn: pregnant teenagers are relateable. It's nice to see them around or to use that because there's at least one pregnant chick in every graduating class.
But the other kids aren't relateable. A lot of the miscommunication isn't realistic. It's just a steaming pile of fail.
I like Emma. She's the whole reason I watched the series, honestly. And at first they really did a good job with her-- keeping her "quirks" as quirks more than anything. But like you said they tried to make everyone sooo deep and use all this storytelling with emotion and just fell really, really flat. Because now Emma isn't just a germophobe, she's "insane" or "crazy" and needs help for a germ phobia that's apparently 10x worse than it is in the first season (re: she cleaned the counselor's chair the whole session? but she doesn't clean Carl's car seats and she didn't flip out in the movie theater like that). There's no CONSISTENCY with Emma.
Or with /anyone else/. :/
Oh, and yes, Carl and Emma didn't work out because she wouldn't have sex with him. He waited quite a few months.
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Wow. I mean, it makes sense that it should be relateable, but I guess I'm more used to seeing it as representation, rather than reality, and criticizing it on those lines. Then again, I didn't really grow up with a lot of TV so.
I think they're kind of moving away from that now. She's starting to do more school stuff, less... whatever it was she used to do.
Oh. I see. Hmm.
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