Comments | brightcupenny: warning, impending flashback

brightcupenny

warning, impending flashback

Feb 15, 2007 21:21

So here's my issue with this week's Studio 60. (Fine, one of my issues. And I even FFed most of the episode.) You want to do a flashback episode, all right, fine. You want to set it eight years ago, er, well, if you must. Plenty of actors could get away with that fairly realistically. But Matthew Perry, though I love him, is not one of them ( Read more... )

west wing, studio 60

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donnafantastico February 16 2007, 08:23:01 UTC

You are SO right. That bothered me like whoa the whole time.

I have S1 of West Wing on DVD and it makes my heart hurt because it's SO good. It ended up such a mess. :(

brightcupenny February 17 2007, 04:32:26 UTC

Yay! I am not the only one!

I have heard that TWW went bad. How long did it stay good? sirrogue is a completist so he'll watch the whole series, but I usually drop out when things go south.

donnafantastico February 17 2007, 08:13:03 UTC

WW got bad as soon as Aaron Sorkin was fired. I think that's when Rob Lowe left too, 'though I might be wrong about the timeline.

It's like a Buffy without a Whedon, a Gilmore without the Palladino's, Veronica without Rob Thomas, Alias without What's-His-Name-Who-Abandons-His-Shows..... it just doesn't work! (Oh, Gilmore Girls... how sad is thee.)

JJ Abrams!!! God, brain fart.

portnoyslp February 17 2007, 18:18:36 UTC

For me, I stopped caring about the show after Sorkin left after Season 4. There are still some good episodes in Season 5, though, most notably "The Supremes". I stopped watching almost totally after the second episode of Season 6, when the last few minutes made me realize that the show runners no longer cared about the characters, and just cared about creating ER-style event-driven TV.

wendyhouse says it got better after that, but your mileage may vary. :-)

wendyhouse February 16 2007, 14:09:57 UTC

huh. that didn't bother me at all. I guess maybe because although I know what Chandler Bing looked like in 1999, I don't actually know what Matt Albie looked like in 1999?

I thought it was a good episode, but hard... I feel bad for Matt and the crap he's about to put himself through.

portnoyslp February 16 2007, 15:55:00 UTC

Yeah, it didn't bother me either. I mean, hey, if Perry can't make me think of him as a different person than Chandler after 15 episodes, what would that say about him as an actor?

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brightcupenny February 17 2007, 04:35:35 UTC

But...he wasn't using at all back then, was he? Or did I miss something in my skipping through the episode? I mean it's Danny who's the ex-addict, not Matt.

(Also, ICON!)

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valkyrie_kitten February 17 2007, 00:04:37 UTC

You know, I wasn't happy all through the episode. I wasn't sure why. I think you hit it right on the head! I really just didn't believe their 8 year flash backs. They were painful. And not just the Angst, the way they did them.

brightcupenny February 17 2007, 04:39:11 UTC

Yeah, it was just...eh. I just was not interested in How Harriet Met Matt. Or How Matt's Brain is Now Thoroughly Screwed Cause He's Taking the Crazy Pills. Also, there was no Steven Weber.