warning, impending flashback

[jaina]

So here's my issue with this week's Studio 60. (Fine, one of my issues. And I even FFed most of the episode.) You want to do a flashback episode, all right, fine. You want to set it eight years ago, er, well, if you must. Plenty of actors could get away with that fairly realistically. But Matthew Perry, though I love him, is not one of them. I *know* what Matthew Perry looked like in 1999-- he looked like this. (I love that episode!) He did not look like this (warning, giant picture!). Slapping a backwards baseball cap on him ain't gonna cut it, sorry. I'm just glad they didn't try to flashback Danny too, because I also know what Bradley Whitford looked like in 1999, because we're Netflixing Season 1 of West Wing right now. (LOVE, you guys. LOVE.)

Oh, what the hell-- some more caps, because I love TOW Everyone Finds Out:
"She went like *this*!"
"Oh yeah? Well you don't know about Huggsy, my bedtime penguin pal!"
"Wow! You didn't even rip off any buttons!" "Not my first time."
"Yeah, you know what would be even more fun? Telling them."

Comments

[jainamsolo.livejournal.com]

Yay! I am not the only one!

I have heard that TWW went bad. How long did it stay good? sirrogue is a completist so he'll watch the whole series, but I usually drop out when things go south.

[donnafantastico.livejournal.com]

WW got bad as soon as Aaron Sorkin was fired. I think that's when Rob Lowe left too, 'though I might be wrong about the timeline.

It's like a Buffy without a Whedon, a Gilmore without the Palladino's, Veronica without Rob Thomas, Alias without What's-His-Name-Who-Abandons-His-Shows..... it just doesn't work! (Oh, Gilmore Girls... how sad is thee.)






JJ Abrams!!! God, brain fart.

[portnoyslp.livejournal.com]

For me, I stopped caring about the show after Sorkin left after Season 4. There are still some good episodes in Season 5, though, most notably "The Supremes". I stopped watching almost totally after the second episode of Season 6, when the last few minutes made me realize that the show runners no longer cared about the characters, and just cared about creating ER-style event-driven TV.

wendyhouse says it got better after that, but your mileage may vary. :-)