On 08/27/2012 05:56 AM, turquoiseb wrote: > Aaron Sorkin's new show started by being attacked mercilessly > before it even aired. I took a stand when it finally *was* > aired, and I got to see the first episode. I've just watched > the tenth, and final, episode of the year. I stand by my > original stand. > > It's good writing, it's good entertainment, it's good acting > and direction, and it's got a pair of balls the size of Mars. > > And I'm still betting on it sweeping the Emmy awards, and > sending an enormous FUCK YOU to all of the people who ranked > on it because...because...well...because they have balls the > size of peas, and brains to match. > > It's difficult to make entertainment while conveying a useful > and needed message. It's even more difficult when the very > people who should be cheering that message on are so petty > and green with envy that they play shoot the messenger, too. > > This was the rap rattled off by Jeff Daniels' Will McAvoy > during the wrap-up of his last news broadcast of the season, > over a bottom-of-the-screen bannerline that said Republican > In Name Only: > > * Ideological purity > * Compromise as weakness > * A fundamentalist belief in scriptural literalism > * Denying science > * Unmoved by facts > * Undeterred by new information > * A hostile fear of progress > * A demonization of education > * A need to control women's bodies > * Severe xenophobia > * Tribal mentality > * Intolerance of dissent > * Pathological hatred of US government > > "They can call themselves the Tea Party, they can call > themselves conservatives, and they can even call them- > selves Republicans, though Republicans probably shouldn't. > But we should call them what they are, the American > Taliban." > > This is the message that real news stations in America > should have been airing as real news last night as the > Republican Convention opened. Instead, it had to be > aired on HBO, on a show that even Democrats and liberals > tried to kill. This is one of those days that forces me > to think about America and remember the lines to a great > Bob Dylan song: > > And you ask why I don't live there > Honey, howcum you even have to ask me that?
It indeed (as people who saw the season finale) came "full circle" or what writers call "bookend." I thought that last night's "Breaking Bad" was the half season finale but they seem to have one more episode left which I think will also "bookend" the opening since Gilligan is a fan of that device. After all it makes your story symmetrical. And as Syd Fields would say "Walt is now further up the tree." We have a lot of tree climbers in TV shows. Sunday night overload got worse with BBC America moving "Copper", a show about the NYPD in 1864, to Sunday nights. The pilot was great and last night was episode 2.
