Maybe they could go with that Search and Destroy idea?
Yeah, cause I would totally watch that.
I had quite a lot to say, but DtC covered just about all of it. I will watch next week’s since it’s the after party, because I want to perhaps naively believe that 60 minutes of absolutely nothing might actually pay off next week. But I’m seriously doubtful (and next week will have to kick ass in a way this show hasn’t come close to doing yet).
The backstory business wasn’t particularly revelatory and didn’t make Harriet an iota more believable, nor the romance more interesting. The Sorkin-lite/reality-crap opposition was equally transparent and merely a sop toward the patronizing “Audiences/Executives are stupid; I wish I ran TV” posturing. Sting’s inclusion was sheerly for ratings/padding/shilling his newest CD–and we couldn’t even listen to the song without it being another Dramatic Underscore that we’re constantly getting at the climax of each episode. The sketches might’ve been passable, but when there isn’t anything resembling Drama in the actualy show-show, who gives a crap?
Ugh. I know I’ll watch next week’s, but with the expectation (not hope, just law-of-averages reasoning) that it’ll be the last nail in the coffin for this viewer.
Do you care why he’s creating characters and situations that aren’t compelling? It just seems in these threads that the viewers are bringing in a ton of baggage and then bitching about the baggage.
It doesn’t really matter. I like the show, but probably won’t participate in any further threads on it since it’s not really that type of show for me.
I don’t have any baggage. I had no familiarity at all with Sorkin before this show. I’ve never seen West Wing or Sportsnight (well, I saw maybe half an episode of the latter). I’ve never seen that Michael Douglas-as-POTUS move. I knew less than nothing about Sorkin’s personal life. I barely knew anything other than his name so anything autoboigraphical in the show is lost on me, yet I still find most of the characters and storylines uncompelling, self-important and unrealistic.
And yet you’re still watching the show, week after week. There’s got to be something that keeps you tuning in.
Yes, but it’s like going on a date with somebody who’s obsessed with their ex. You never met the ex and you don’t care about the ex, but you’re still going to be stuck listening to stories about the ex and the obsession will ruin your date.
Not anymore if you read my earlier post. I gave it a chance because it was so highly touted and because I was intrigued by the subject matter. I gave it five episodes and just didn’t get into it. I’m done with it now.
This has to be the most overanalyzed show in television history.
It is not a comedy show, it is a show about a comedy show. The show-within-a-show criticism just doesn’t make any sense to me.
Maybe the complainers can spend the time in between show analysing Sportsnight episodes.
“Did you see that! They said the Yankees were playing at home but they were wearing their road uniforms!!! Can you even believe that! Oh My God!”
I don’t know whether you mean the show/writers or the viewers are the ones talking about the ex.
From my perspective, the viewers who keep bringing this stuff about personal lives and past shows are the ones obsessing about the ex, “ruining” my date. You aren’t really ruining anything, of course, since it’s not that big a deal.
Not reading the Lost threads, huh.
Metaphor difficulties, huh? Okay, here’s the problem in clear.
In real life, Aaron Sorkin had a relationship with Kristin Chenoweth. This relationship ended.
Aaron Sorkin is writing a television series. He created characters on this series, Matt and Harriet, that are clearly based on himself and Chenoworth.
Many viewers have complained that the series is giving too much attention to the relationship between Matt and Harriet and that it is throwing off the balance of the show.
The experience that viewers have is that a television series has weaker scripts. But the cause for those weaker scripts is Sorkin’s personal life. So Sorkin’s personal life is affected viewers even if they are unaware of who he used to date.
Like I said, from my perspective, you’re the one harping on and on about the “ex.” It made your metaphor funny since from my perspective it applies to you more than it applies to the show.
I like the show and hope it survives. I think it’s got a good shot. That’s pretty much the extent of my commentary, so I’ll be leaving now.
Yes.
Or to confirm my position in the category of people that are annoying jsgoddess, it feels a real life version of the “This one’s for you, Felicia” episode of SportsNight.
J, you do understand the difference between me and Aaron Sorkin in terms of our impact on the content of Studio 60? That difference being that nothing I say, do, or think has any effect on the show. So my indifference or obsession about Sorkin’s life is immaterial to this discussion (in point of fact, I was unaware until I read it here three weeks ago that Sorkin had a past relationship with Chenoworth).
Sorkin, on the other hand, is the primary influence on the content of the show. So in a discussion of the content of the show, mention of him is unavoidable. And being as he chose to base the show on his personal life, it inevitably follows that any discussion of the show will also be a discussion of Sorkin’s personal life.
[Metaphor alert]Trying to discuss Studio 60 without discussing Sorkin’s personal life would be like trying to discuss CSI without discussing forensics.[Actually that was more of a simile]
A simile is a metaphor (but not all metaphors are similes).
I liked how Tom was watching old movies, trying to get the voice and the accent down of the actor. I loved the Nancy Grace spoof…that was excellent.
I really think O’Dell is going to do a good job on the article for the show, and not some sort of muckraking expose. Of course, it helps to get the backstory so she can better understand the dynamics, but I’ll be surprised if the whole Star Spangled Banner-stiletto boot thing gets in her article. And for a successful Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist to get all gooey over Sting was very sweet. Who wouldn’t, especially when the man is playing a lute?
Was West Wing originally pitched to HBO? I would have paid money for that!