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« Reply #90 on: June 30, 2012, 01:19:30 PM » |
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That just about sums up how I felt about the show, yeah. |
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« Reply #91 on: July 01, 2012, 11:14:20 PM » |
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Finally saw THE NEWSROOM. I think Louis CK has a new favorite show.
That kid from AMERICAN IDIOT was in it. That was cool.
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« Reply #92 on: July 02, 2012, 12:05:27 AM » |
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Second episode better than the first.
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« Reply #93 on: July 02, 2012, 12:18:58 AM » |
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Another roller coaster of pure garbage and goodness. Finally a Republican who loves illegal immigration, taxes, and probably abortion. On the other hand Allison Pill and everyone else is pretty awesome at acting.
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« Reply #94 on: July 02, 2012, 02:07:50 AM » |
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Is McAvoy a Republican?
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« Reply #95 on: July 02, 2012, 02:56:41 AM » |
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Is McAvoy a Republican?
Yeah. They've said so on the show and Sorkin talked about it on Charlie Rose. It's really weird to have someone who is not supposed be a Sorkin mouthpiece just always be Sorkin's mouthpiece. It's kind of like on Studio 60 Sarah Paulson was supposed to be a devot Christian but hated everything about devot Christians. |
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« Reply #96 on: July 02, 2012, 05:56:31 AM » |
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It's kind of like on Studio 60 Sarah Paulson was supposed to be a devot Christian but hated everything about devot Christians.
To be completely fair, I think that's more based on Kristin Chenoweth than anything. The Sarah Paulson character is a very, very thinly-veiled... I guess "caricature" would be the right word, of her. |
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« Reply #97 on: July 02, 2012, 06:28:43 AM » |
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This show hurts to watch.
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« Reply #98 on: July 02, 2012, 08:00:56 AM » |
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Sorkin's proof of "greatness" in his Great Man characters (who all seem to be Sorkin-stand-ins) is that other people will passionately explain their slavish devotion to said greatness to people who JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND. It seems pathological.
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« Reply #99 on: July 02, 2012, 08:07:29 AM » |
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I've never hit the jump back button so many times in an hour. They spit shit at you so fast your brain is registering something and you miss the next 3 somethings.
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« Reply #100 on: July 02, 2012, 08:18:05 AM » |
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Sorkin's proof of "greatness" in his Great Man characters (who all seem to be Sorkin-stand-ins) is that other people will passionately explain their slavish devotion to said greatness to people who JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND. It seems pathological.
Yeah, meanwhile the great man was caught with crack in his suitcase at the Las Vegas Airport. |
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« Reply #101 on: July 02, 2012, 08:24:22 AM » |
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All this stuff would work well enough within the confines of a stage-play. It is like Christopher Durang; that kind of writing and those kind of beats work OK for theater, where all you have is spoken dialogue that's meant to be stylized to tell the story; there are no camera angles or music or other devices a TV show might have. But even so, it would still be annoying. But on TV, there's kind of no excuse. Does ANYONE around him tell him the truth, or has he gone full George Lucas?
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« Reply #102 on: July 02, 2012, 08:45:30 AM » |
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It's funny that during the AMC/MAD MEN negotiations there was a rumor that Weiner was going to be replaced with Sorkin. They are the polar opposite. Most of the important themes in MAD MEN are unspoken and sub-textual. Everything in Sorkin is overt and hammered home with dialogue over and over.
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« Reply #103 on: July 02, 2012, 08:51:44 AM » |
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It's funny that during the AMC/MAD MEN negotiations there was a rumor that Weiner was going to be replaced with Sorkin. They are the polar opposite. Most of the important themes in MAD MEN are unspoken and sub-textual. Everything in Sorkin is overt and hammered home with dialogue over and over.
Ohmigod. Can you imagine what that would be like? It's so awful I almost wish that it happened. |
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« Reply #104 on: July 02, 2012, 11:10:47 AM » |
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Women are ditzes who don't know how to handle their romantic past yo
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