This made me laugh...
Because it is so very true:
To be sure, "Boston Legal" has its problems and they're all Kelley's quirks, none of them unheard of in his past shows. Too often he embraces weirdness for its own sake. He gets obsessed with secondary characters for a while, then abandons them. He continuously introduces other characters but never bothers to develop them.
Who knows what next season will bring, although my guess is another cast purge.
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I swear, if he gets rid of Jerry or Katie I will be so extremely angry. He's made me love them almost as much as I love Alan and Denny, and they are the only secondary characters on BL that I have ever felt were vital to the show. They mirror the Alan/Denny relationship in so many ways, and had the show gotten a few more seasons, I'm pretty sure they'd be just as close as Alan and Denny are. Seriously though, DEK can't give me Jerry's comment to Katie about stopping traffic and then just forget about them altogether. And Alan/Denny has gotten so much closure and has accomplished SO MUCH that I really need that Jerry/Katie relationship of discovery and opposites being so in tune with each other. I LOVE THEM!!!! I've never cared about anyone other than Alan and Denny, but Jerry has grown on me so darn much over the years, and Katie's complete understanding of Jerry won her instant love from me, and I really, really hope that she doesn't disappear. It's rare that a new addition sticks around, especially since the show will be ending (with only 13 episodes for season 5), but I will be crushed if she leaves. I'm pretty sure Jerry will stick around though because he's been a recurring character since the first season.
Anyway, I'm just happy that we are getting more episodes, and hopefully since they know it's the end, the show will really focus on Alan and Denny and work the rest of the cast into their story, rather than giving everyone their own arc. The season finale did a magnificent job with that. I'm definitely a fan of Alan/Denny being the A-plot, and Jerry/Katie being the B-plot, both plots coming together somehow, while everyone else just drifts in and out and serves as either comic relief or progression of plot.
So, you know what I'm kind of hoping for? I'm hoping that Denny's alzheimer's starts progressing, and we get to see how Alan copes with this, and how he takes care of him. I really think this is the only part of their relationship that has been left to explore. Season 4 brought us Alan verbally confirming his love for Denny (and Denny telling Alan that he loves him numerous times), Alan's fear of a life without Denny, both Alan and Denny accepting the fact that they will never find a love greater than the one that they share for each other, Denny propositioning Alan for a 3-way, their relationship surviving being on opposing sides for a case, Denny and Alan holding hands at the doctor's office, Denny practicing mouth-to-mouth on Alan, and Denny and Alan walking off together in the moonlight with the cheesiest music ever. That last one really was a beautiful ending. So I'm curious where they'll go in season 5. They've pretty much covered everything. Season 1 was Alan and Denny getting to really know each other, season 2 was them falling in love (first sleepover, woohoo!), season 3 was them getting together, so to speak, and Denny was easily jealous of Alan spending time with anyone else and Alan was baffled yet amused, and season 4 was basically them being a married couple, where Denny was very confident in their relationship and Alan didn't want to spend time with anyone else, and it was the season where they truly realized the depth of their love. So season 5 could easily be a glimpse into the part of marriage where a spouse gets sick, and you find out how much they are willing to sacrifice for each other. Anyway, their friendship is so damn beautiful, and I'm shocked at how much it follows an actual TV romance, even though it's a completely platonic friendship between two heterosexual males. We even got the cheesy ending beneath the moonlight. Hee.
To be sure, "Boston Legal" has its problems and they're all Kelley's quirks, none of them unheard of in his past shows. Too often he embraces weirdness for its own sake. He gets obsessed with secondary characters for a while, then abandons them. He continuously introduces other characters but never bothers to develop them.
Who knows what next season will bring, although my guess is another cast purge.
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I swear, if he gets rid of Jerry or Katie I will be so extremely angry. He's made me love them almost as much as I love Alan and Denny, and they are the only secondary characters on BL that I have ever felt were vital to the show. They mirror the Alan/Denny relationship in so many ways, and had the show gotten a few more seasons, I'm pretty sure they'd be just as close as Alan and Denny are. Seriously though, DEK can't give me Jerry's comment to Katie about stopping traffic and then just forget about them altogether. And Alan/Denny has gotten so much closure and has accomplished SO MUCH that I really need that Jerry/Katie relationship of discovery and opposites being so in tune with each other. I LOVE THEM!!!! I've never cared about anyone other than Alan and Denny, but Jerry has grown on me so darn much over the years, and Katie's complete understanding of Jerry won her instant love from me, and I really, really hope that she doesn't disappear. It's rare that a new addition sticks around, especially since the show will be ending (with only 13 episodes for season 5), but I will be crushed if she leaves. I'm pretty sure Jerry will stick around though because he's been a recurring character since the first season.
Anyway, I'm just happy that we are getting more episodes, and hopefully since they know it's the end, the show will really focus on Alan and Denny and work the rest of the cast into their story, rather than giving everyone their own arc. The season finale did a magnificent job with that. I'm definitely a fan of Alan/Denny being the A-plot, and Jerry/Katie being the B-plot, both plots coming together somehow, while everyone else just drifts in and out and serves as either comic relief or progression of plot.
So, you know what I'm kind of hoping for? I'm hoping that Denny's alzheimer's starts progressing, and we get to see how Alan copes with this, and how he takes care of him. I really think this is the only part of their relationship that has been left to explore. Season 4 brought us Alan verbally confirming his love for Denny (and Denny telling Alan that he loves him numerous times), Alan's fear of a life without Denny, both Alan and Denny accepting the fact that they will never find a love greater than the one that they share for each other, Denny propositioning Alan for a 3-way, their relationship surviving being on opposing sides for a case, Denny and Alan holding hands at the doctor's office, Denny practicing mouth-to-mouth on Alan, and Denny and Alan walking off together in the moonlight with the cheesiest music ever. That last one really was a beautiful ending. So I'm curious where they'll go in season 5. They've pretty much covered everything. Season 1 was Alan and Denny getting to really know each other, season 2 was them falling in love (first sleepover, woohoo!), season 3 was them getting together, so to speak, and Denny was easily jealous of Alan spending time with anyone else and Alan was baffled yet amused, and season 4 was basically them being a married couple, where Denny was very confident in their relationship and Alan didn't want to spend time with anyone else, and it was the season where they truly realized the depth of their love. So season 5 could easily be a glimpse into the part of marriage where a spouse gets sick, and you find out how much they are willing to sacrifice for each other. Anyway, their friendship is so damn beautiful, and I'm shocked at how much it follows an actual TV romance, even though it's a completely platonic friendship between two heterosexual males. We even got the cheesy ending beneath the moonlight. Hee.