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[aftertherockets]

Honestly, guys, I just can't bring myself to write about anything else these days. :(


I still never got my hands on last week's episode, but I decided I didn't care that much. I know the gist of what happened, and reactions were pretty mixed anyway.

Last night's episode was good, though. It felt like The West Wing, or at least as close as it can come these days. Sam was very Sam-like, and I was worried about that, since everyone else has been replaced by pod-people. Every scene with Sam and Josh was just exactly right. Of course Sam, an outsider, someone who knows Josh so entirely well, would be the only one to be able to calm him down. Well, back in the day it would have been Donna, but you know. Not so much now with all the sex they've been having.

It's hard to watch this as the ending. I'm sort of half-heartedly enjoying it, but it just doesn't do anything for me the way it once did. These aren't really the same characters, they're all so much sadder. Not that they weren't beautifully broken people before, but at least before they managed to find ways to be happy. Now they all just sort of walk around with this immense saddness weighing them down, and that's not how I want to see them go out.

As a side note, though, I read that article that said if John Spencer hadn't died, TPTB were going to have Vinick win the election, and it was just one more reason to hate the whole John Wells camp. They really were foreshadowing the Santos campaign crashing and burning, because somewhere along the way they decided Josh was a nutcase who couldn't handle any sort of real pressure.

I don't know. Actually, I've been thinking a little bit about this whole hate-on for John Wells and how he changed the show. It's interesting that he gets all the blame, when really, how hard would it be to take this beloved show and these characters and try and keep it going as well as it had been before? But also, I know there were contract problems and all that, but Sorkin's the one who walked away. I get that you can't just let networks and producers and whoever else walk all over you, but I'm always a little miffed when someone walks away from their creative endeavors like that. I know it's just television, but it's also art in a way, it's a story you've decided to put out into the world. How do you just give up on and give away your art like that?

It just makes me sad, because the end would have been so good.


It's just one snippet of dialogue really:

Meg: Come on, Veronica. You gotta help me find out who it is. This could turn out to be my soul mate!

Just. Really, Meg, run away. AS FAST AS YOU CAN PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF INTERESTING STORYLINES EVERYWHERE!

Why, yes, I'm smack dab in the middle of a S1 rewatch. Which only serves to highlight the problems with S2 even more. So maybe I shouldn't be doing this so close to the finale, but whatever. I watched through Betty and Veronica last night, and I think it's totally underrated. I love it to pieces, even if that line about Wallace's "purity of spirit" makes me want to throw up a little every time. Also, I kinda liked Richie and Zeke. They should have come back in some big Pan/Neptune rivalry senior prank thing. It would have been fun.


I'm chugging along with S1 of Six Feet Under. The only thing I really have to say at this point, though, is that Michael C. Hall just completely owns that entire cast. Where did he come from and why is not wildly famous?

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[http://users.livejournal.com/_freyja_/]

Hrm. I saw Michael C Hall as the MC in Cabaret a few years ago-- I think he mostly did stage work before SFU-- (in fact, I think Six Feet Under was the first tv series he ever did)-- maybe that's why he's not better known?

[evergleam83.livejournal.com]

Actually, that makes a lot of sense. Those scenes with him dancing and singing in his imagination are hilarious. Plus, he does give off a very stage-actor type vibe.

But seriously, Laura. He owns them.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_freyja_/]

I completely agree. And, without any spoilers, he'll continue to own them. He's such a great actor. God, this makes me want to watch all the seasons all over again! EEEE!

Plus, I've seen his ass :-p

[emulsion-lift.livejournal.com]

i only skimmed what you wrote cuz i have to run to an appt. BUT. Sam should've been offered dir of communications. not dep chief of staff. lame. donna getting first lady chief was awesome. and i liked the happy ending on the plane.

also, i found myself laughing at the look on josh's face the whole hour. like he was nanoseconds from a nuclear nervous breakdown.

[evergleam83.livejournal.com]

Oh! That was the other thing I was going to say, so I'm glad you pointed it out. Sam as Deputy CoS makes no sense at all, because he's a speechwriter and a domestic policy guy and he doesn't have any real serious experience with that kind of politics. Josh only asked him because he looooooves him. And because the audience loves him, I guess. Of course, I don't think Josh could have gotten him back for anything less.

It's really weird that there are only 3 episodes left. I keep thinking of all these things I want them to do before the end, but they just aren't going to get to all of it. :p

[girlcontinuum.livejournal.com]

Oh, but the impression the apparently stoned guy at the flower shop makes of Duncan? Will never not crack me up. So even though I yell at the screen when Meg takes Duncan's hand, telling her to run the hell away from the creep who will ruin her life... Blah, stupid comababy.

[evergleam83.livejournal.com]

Hah. It's the second one that always cracks me up. I love that he felt the need to do it twice.

Although, my favorite line from that ep will probably always be Logan's "Wait. Who is this guy." Which really has nothing to do with the line and everything to do with the delivery, but you know. That's how things go when it comes to JD. :p

[singingrl.livejournal.com]

*tries not to think about the fact that VM is pre-empted in NY till Sunday* and I'm so with you on Meg's line from s1...*sigh* if the writers had only known how low they'd have to sink to come up with a plot for Duncan/Meg...well that's a question for another day lol :P

[evergleam83.livejournal.com]

Meg was so awesome once, too. And now, when I see her in S1, I just siiiiiiigh.

[raindrops888.livejournal.com]

I just started S1 of Six Feet Under two days ago (and I'm almost done *facepalm*), and Michael C. Hall is fantastic. I was surprised at his lack of credits at IMDB, but it would make sense that he's been mostly doing stage work.

[evergleam83.livejournal.com]

Hee. I've stalled, because I'm getting it through Netflix, and I'm waiting for the next discs. I was watching a bunch of stuff at the same time, but I think I'm gonna give up on the others for now and just work my way through this. :) I love those crazy Fishers.

[dramacomic.livejournal.com]

No way. Frances Conroy is the best in SFU. End of discussion.

[evergleam83.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. I think I'm going to have to disagree. Frances Conroy is pretty hilarious, I'll grant that, and I can see only good things coming from her in the future, but MCH is so incredibly engaging. He just owns, that's all there is to it.

:)

[dramacomic.livejournal.com]

*gasp* We have different favorite actors in the series??!

.....

I guess that's okay. :)

[nebulist.livejournal.com]

If you still need last week's ww ep, I think I can help you out. I thought it was good, on the current dumbed down scale of goodness, and worth watching. :)