I heard y'all loud and clear when you said that watching two non-consecutive hours wasn't enough to dismiss Game of Thrones (at least publicly, anyway). So, now that I'm more than halfway through the first season of The Newsroom, I consider it fair game for me to complain about it at considerable length
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Honestly, I get the sense that something happened to Sorkin between WW and Studio 60. He got angry at some specific woman (I think Christine Chenowith?) and has written that anger into everything he's done since. Even The Social Network has this sort of problem - it has very few women, and one of them is flat out crazy.
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I get that sense, too (though I don't know what he was like before, he just seems like a person scorned), which is why I thought it was so weird that all of these random Twitterers jumped on me (and commenters jumped on that Vulture blogger) when I tweeted about it. Open your eyes, people!
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It really is weird that people have badgered you about this on Twitter, but I think it's some TV-nerd equivalent to the comic book fans who were going after people who dared say anything bad about The Avengers, Amazing Spider-Man or Dark Knight Rises before they were released. At some base level I think it's because lots of people, rightly or wrongly, identify themselves by the things they like. "Because my identity is wrapped up, at least in part, in my interests, when you say something bad about something I like (or something I think I'm going to like, in the case of ( ... )
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I feel this is another Sorkin hallmark (at least of the two shows I've seen). People are often billed at the best at what they do, and everyone talks about them as such, while all of the evidence you actually see points to the contrary. (Like Harriet not being able to tell a joke.) Not that Mackenzie has messed up during a broadcast yet, but she doesn't really live up to other characters' descriptions of her. See also: Will being a great guy, or Matthew Perry being the savior of comedy in Studio 60, etc.
It really is weird that people have badgered you about this on Twitter, but I think it's some TV-nerd equivalent to the comic book fans who were going after people who dared say anything bad about The Avengers, Amazing Spider-Man or Dark Knight Rises before they were released.I think this makes sense if I was a movie blog that other people read ( ... )
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I think this makes sense if I was a movie blog that other people read widely.See, this still wouldn't make sense to me. Defending something you haven't actually seen from the people who have actually seen it (in the case of those comic book movies)? At least the people badgering you had presumably seen the show. And they just had to click on the #newsroom hashtag to read your comment (and I noticed that it also got favorited a bunch and retweeted, so it wasn't all negative attention from strangers, right ( ... )
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That's the thing, though. It's not just who screws up and who doesn't (or who has flaws and who doesn't), it's what screw-ups and what flaws each character gets that unnerves me. To me, getting totally high when you don't know you're going to go on the air isn't the same as not being able to subtract, or understand basic economics, or get dressed without putting your skirt on backwards, or know that Don Quixote was originally in Spanish. It's almost like, "For this episode, Will does something too cool and rebellious and counter-cultural for TV." If I were a TV character, I'd rather have that be my quirk than having to count on my fingers. I know the whole season was produced before any of it aired, but I don't expect any improvements when Sorkin has said he doesn't really understand the difference. The only thing that's really equal so far is that, once the show goes live, everyone snaps ( ... )
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