The Newsroom... I really want to like you this season more than I am.

[h_loquacious]

And now for my latest thoughts on the Newsroom.

You know what guys, Genoa was never going to work for me. That's the problem. It was never going to work.

It's too much threat to my favourite characters, and I don't deal well.

Comments

[ext_2121629]

My problem with Genoa is... why are all those people lying? The General, the guy Mac and Jerry talked to in the bar and especially Charlie's friend. I don't understand... Jerry editing the video is reprehensible and plain wrong of course but the General was lying all the same and I just don't know what to make of Operation Genoa yet. Which makes me crazy

[h_loquacious]

I don't know why the soldier is lying, but I have a Machiavelian theory about why the general is. The short answer, is that he isn't lying. As far as I can remember, he never actually said that Genoa happened, even to Mac and Charlie. However, he did say that he researched Jerry Dantana, so theoretically he knows about Jerry's obsession with drones and the like. We also know that the general wants to be able to use chemical weapons. That's ostensibly the reason he's talking to them in the first place. Maybe he wants the story out there that they did, in hopes of manipulating events in his favour on that score. He does order everyone else out of the room but Jerry Dantana. Maybe he suspects that Jerry is desperate enough that he'll leak do what he did. And if he doesn't, no harm no foul

[ext_2121629]

That's an interesting theory you have. I want to know what the hell is wrong about Operation Genoa already. This build up is getting me nervous.

I want to believe something good will happen by the end of the season too. I really, really do. I keep thinking that Sorkin will take care of every unresolved issue, like the voicemail and Mackenzie's reaction (or lack there of) to Will and Nina as well as Will's feelings for Mackenzie that he really need to talk about out loud with her and not Sloan or Charlie or any other character who's not her. I think we and they deserve to have the issue dealed with in a spectacular way at this point. Especially considering their personal relationship has been neglected for the most part of the past 6 episodes. I want Nina's plot to have a meaning which is not just Will taking a second look at her and realizing she has a heart.
Seriously, what the hell?

[h_loquacious]

I doubt every unresolved issue will be taken care of by the end of the season, but I do think that either Genoa/the professional situation or the Will/Mac situation has to have some kind of payoff, if not both. If the season ends with both hurtling towards disaster, I'm going to be seriously displeased.

I'm assuming the payoff to the Nina situation is Will realizing Mac is his Goldilocks planet, but that could have been better done, to be honest.

[spyglass_]

Two things.

1) I haven't seen The Newsroom since the second or third episode this season but I have decided that Jim and Maggie are like Rigsby and Van Pelt. I am so tired of them and their relationship drama that I want them to be together just so we can NEVER HEAR ABOUT THEM AGAIN (not that that'll happen but a girl can dream). Not sure if it's gotten better since the last episode I watched, but YEP. That is my comparison.

2) BELLWETHER. SHEEP. I am so enjoying that I finished all of my work before I came home.

Actually, the most important thing about this comment is I wanted to say hello because I miss talking to you about things! Once I get adjusted and in the swing of things (I've been at the library every night until 7-ish this week) I will hopefully get to have a little bit of time for fun. So HI.

[h_loquacious]

1) The Jim/Maggie stuff hasn't actually been awful. It is not quite at Rigsby/Van Pelt levels. (Okay, it was a bit brutal in one episode, but only for half of their scenes together.) My problem with the Maggie plot at this point is independent of the Jim one. I would be perfectly fine with them being together and taking each other out of the dating pool though. It has gotten better since the last episode you watched in a lot of ways, I think. And Maggie is fabulous in one episode. (I have been going back and forth on the Maggie thing this season. They have managed to separate her storyline from Jim this season most of the time, which is something the Mentalist writers have yet to do for RSVP, so the comparison is not quite apt, though there are similarities

[h_loquacious]

Sooo.... I have been informed that you might be able to help me out with the Kate Daniels books...

*smiles winningly*

[spyglass_]

Soooo, I actually only have books four and five, but I have Cathy on getting you the rest! So that is coming!