Comments | normative_jean: I want the last hour back.

normative_jean

I want the last hour back.

Jun 07, 2007 22:05

It's not fair. I was going back and forth between General Hospital and Studio 60, and just marveling at how bad they both were. What kills me, though, is that they shouldn't suck. They should both be highly rated critical darlings. GH was, once upon a time, and Sorkin's got TWW, Sports night, and a whole mess of great movies to his credit. Both ( Read more... )

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sugarpromises June 8 2007, 06:23:10 UTC

Aww. Do you have meetings every Friday? Wait. Was it last Friday that you had those super boring meetings? Lol, my sense of time is warped.

I haven't seen any of S60. I heard it was okay, but had fallen flat. I love Matthew Perry, and all the girls on the show that used to be on the WB show, Jack & Jill. I'm surprised too, that this show wasn't more popular than Sorkin's other shows. At least, that was the impression I got.

I didn't watch GH today. I watched old Angel season 3 episodes instead.

normative_jean June 8 2007, 06:49:50 UTC

Yep. And my boss is pretty insistent that I go to this meeting, which happens every Friday morning. You can probably expect me to bitch about this for a while. I got out of the really bad last-Friday meeting, though, which was held today, so that made me happy.

Studio 60 should have been one of the best new shows of the season, but Sorkin was mostly using the show as a massive self-therapy session. He ranted about, in no particular order: his issues with his ex, his drug problem, the internet, and network television. Nate Corddry was really the only consistently good thing about this show.

Angel! Season 3!! You had the right idea.

sugarpromises June 8 2007, 07:00:45 UTC

Ahh... that sucks. At least it's not a full day of meeting like last week. So glad you got out of the really bad one.

I was really excited about Studio 60 as a new show, but I never knew when it was on. And then I think it went on hiatus and I could never keep track. I tend to never do well with brand new shows and usually end up having to play catch up. Like with Ugly Betty.

And yes! Angel, season 3!! I found some old episodes on tape. But I'm downloading the full thing onto my computers right now as I type. I'm so excited. My love for Gunn is just growing and growing.

normative_jean June 8 2007, 15:20:58 UTC

I was ecstatic about Studio 60, especially because it premiered the fall after West Wing ended. I was going to get my fix of several actors from that show, not to mention it being the triumphant return of one of my favorite writers to the TV screen. I don't regret watching, because I do like Sorkin; but there were a lot of things wrong, even in the first episode, and they seemed to get worse as time went on.

There were a couple really good eps if you just want to download those.

Gunn! My love for him was deep and true, and will never die.

lapiccolina June 8 2007, 06:58:54 UTC

Again. Your commentary on GH scares me. Being in patient exams for most of the day, I didn't get the opportunity to watch...was it that bad?

Squeeee. You enjoyed Sports Night! I thought I was the only one! That show was canceled too sooooon. Sigh.

normative_jean June 8 2007, 15:25:50 UTC

GH is indeed scary. Yesterday was even more of the Laura-guardianship nightmare that does nothing except prove that Port Charles has the dumbest legal system in the world, more of Jason and his greasy head being in jail, more of Spinelli's idol worship of said grease, and Luke and Tracy kissing (ewewEW!). It did, however, feature Lucky being awesome in every way, which was a nice surprise.

Sports Night!! I love that show!. empressearwig does too, so there are plenty of people around to squee about it with.

empressearwig June 8 2007, 11:51:17 UTC

*small voice* I really liked last night's Studio 60 *small voice*

I can't help it! I am a complete and utter sucker for Matt and Harriet. I love their chemistry and I actually really like the dynamic that Sorkin set up, even if it was therapy for himself over his break up with KC.

The only stuff I didn't care for was the Jordan/Danny plot, and that's because I don't like Jordan at all. I have AP issues.

But on the whole, I thought it was one of the better episodes.

GH on the other hand? Terrible.

Ew to early meetings.

normative_jean June 8 2007, 15:35:12 UTC

I love the actors, I really do, and I think for the most part they tried to save the material. But I'm sick of the mind-numbing tedium of the religious debate, and the push-and-pull between two characters I found it very hard to care about. Individually, I don't really mind Matt and Harriet, but together...yeesh.

I didn't even mind Danny and Jordan up to a point, because I found his sudden obsession perfectly reasonable for someone with an addictive-type personality. But once the heavy-handed women-don't-know-what-they-want stuff really kicked into high gear, I just hated them both. Again, individually, I didn't have a problem with either character, but Sorkin doesn't know how to force romance; his best stuff in that area always came when there was accidental, organic chemistry between actors.

Last week was good. So was the Christmas episode, and the one where Tom got arrested. Give Sorkin back his mushrooms!

Early mornings in general, ew.

empressearwig June 8 2007, 15:45:30 UTC

Oh, I understand why everyone hates Matt and Harriet together. And I typically hate when Aaron manufactures romances between characters, because they always fall flat. But I really found that SP and MP had the chemistry to make it work, unlike say MK/BW on TWW. I find the religion thing very true to life, too. I think Harriet's line last night of "I just love you is all" was very true to life. I think that's why it resonates for me. Two people that should not under any circumstances be together, but they can't help but love each other. I don't know. Really, it's about the chemistry I see.

I actually didn't find Danny's obsession off, I just have never enjoyed Amanda Peet in anything. I think she has all the chemistry of a limp dishrag, and BW is incapable of saving the coupling. But again, I know that's unpopular.

The Christmas episode was great. That was the tone the rest of the show should have taken, it just didn't work. Hopefully Aaron gets some therapy before he tries writing something else. Or, he goes back to the mushrooms.

normative_jean June 8 2007, 15:57:12 UTC

I didn't want to hate them together; if anything, I desperately wanted to root for them because they clearly loved each other in spite of thier many, many differences. Are you talking about the religious discussions being true to life, or the different religions of people trying ot make it work to be true to life? The latter I definitely agree with, and so making that a point of contention never bothered me. I just don't like heavy-handedness in discussions like that, especially if the writer is just going to skim the surface of all the inherent, related issues. This show was never a good vehicle for Sorkin to write all the things he's really good at, and I think that hampered him a lot.

Jordan never really bothered me the way she bothered a lot of people, although that might just be because I didn't bring any AP issues into the show with me. But the actual relationship between her and Danny sucked, majorly. She should never have returned his affections -- at least not so quickly -- although Danny growing more obsessed with Jordan ( ... )

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