Melanie was a reactionary bitch - with a big chip on her shoulders from day 1. She hates Brian because he has what she wants (Linds' unconditional love, the biological Gus connection, the "ease" of moving through the business world as a white male, good looks). Mel is the most judgmental character on the show except from Joan Kinney.
Brian loves to push her buttons - mostly because she's so easy; everything is a slight to this sanctimonious angry nut.
Obviously it's Cowplop's fault - they made her into this ... this ... thing that has little or no touch with reality. If you watched the UK version - the comparable Melanie character was not half a angry and so ready to attack the Brian-like character at every turn. Perhaps Cowplop has a thing against lesbians?
I feel for Michele Clunie - from everything I hear she's a nice person. Must have been a bitch to play this loonie without an easily identifiable redeeming quality to be had.
Yes! ITA! I hate Melanie, she blames Brian for her own mistakes, and all of her (and the world's) problems.
I said as much over at qaf_marathons, that I liked Lindsay better than Mel, and no-one agreed with me. They all liked Mel's feistiness. Well there's feistiness and there's being an irrational bitch.
I have no idea how I missed you saying that. I'm soooooooo with you. Mel is f* bitch, she can never do anything but complain, she's hardly ever happy with anything and her need to blame Brian is outrageous and uncalled for beyond words.
Linds may be weaker, but just being stronger does my no means make up for Mel's being bitter, mean-spirited and just all around annoying (the only good moments she ever had were standing up to Linds' parents' in 207? and the one scene at Woody's right before Brian licks his way up Justin's body, I mean tells him about promoting the GSSA) [/rant]
I've never like Mel because of all the reasons you illustrated and more. While she's had her moments of lucidity and pleasantness (never saw warmth), she's never been likeable (sp).
The parallels between Brian & Mel include high-powered professionals (although she's a lousy lawyer from what I can tell) and feel the need to be in control.
I once wrote to C/L (diplomatically) and shared my views on their writing of the lesbians on the show. In all 5 years the only story line that had depth (IMO) was their issue over how to run a two-career home with children. That was realistic and an important RL issue. That lasted all of 3 eps. :/
You can write to C/L? Where? How? Can you still do that? I searched for anything coming even close to any address but never found anything. I figured it was either because they were hiding (which they'd better) or because I couldn't access the "right" sites from outside the US - as is the case e.g. with the Showtime homepage.
Oh, and I was very diplomatic in my three unsent letters too *grumble*
As you noted, the address was on the Showtime site. It was c/o Showtime's NYC office--but that was during the run of the show. Now that C/L no longer work for/with Showtime I don't know if C/L has given them a forwarding address. I'm sure they throw most of the letters out--since they clearly have no respect for the QaF fans. *shakes head* This always bothers me because I loved (and still love) "An Early Frost" and "Sisters". Sometimes people lose perspective when they don't look at the broader kaleidoscope of life.
It is unfortunate that Mel had to be such a bitch. I wanted to like her character. I wanted to feel for her feeling like she was left out of being a parent to Gus...but stupid cowlip takes it too far....And she shouldn't blame Brian for her problems, those are hers and hers and Lindsays. But as far as I'm concerned the two of them deserved each other.
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Brian loves to push her buttons - mostly because she's so easy; everything is a slight to this sanctimonious angry nut.
Obviously it's Cowplop's fault - they made her into this ... this ... thing that has little or no touch with reality. If you watched the UK version - the comparable Melanie character was not half a angry and so ready to attack the Brian-like character at every turn. Perhaps Cowplop has a thing against lesbians?
I feel for Michele Clunie - from everything I hear she's a nice person. Must have been a bitch to play this loonie without an easily identifiable redeeming quality to be had.
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and yeah, i'm sure michele clunie is a nice person, i have nothing against the actress, i just can't fucking stand her character.
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Yes! ITA! I hate Melanie, she blames Brian for her own mistakes, and all of her (and the world's) problems.
I said as much over at qaf_marathons, that I liked Lindsay better than Mel, and no-one agreed with me. They all liked Mel's feistiness. Well there's feistiness and there's being an irrational bitch.
I'm on your side.
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Linds may be weaker, but just being stronger does my no means make up for Mel's being bitter, mean-spirited and just all around annoying (the only good moments she ever had were standing up to Linds' parents' in 207? and the one scene at Woody's right before Brian licks his way up Justin's body, I mean tells him about promoting the GSSA) [/rant]
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I've never like Mel because of all the reasons you illustrated and more. While she's had her moments of lucidity and pleasantness (never saw warmth), she's never been likeable (sp).
The parallels between Brian & Mel include high-powered professionals (although she's a lousy lawyer from what I can tell) and feel the need to be in control.
I once wrote to C/L (diplomatically) and shared my views on their writing of the lesbians on the show. In all 5 years the only story line that had depth (IMO) was their issue over how to run a two-career home with children. That was realistic and an important RL issue. That lasted all of 3 eps. :/
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Oh, and I was very diplomatic in my three unsent letters too *grumble*
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