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

[portnoyslp.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it didn't bother me either. I mean, hey, if Perry can't make me think of him as a different person than Chandler after 15 episodes, what would that say about him as an actor?

[yav-14.livejournal.com]

Didn't bother me either. Since he was already using at that point too it made sense to me that he'd look a bit... er... you know.

[brightcupenny.livejournal.com]

But...he wasn't using at all back then, was he? Or did I miss something in my skipping through the episode? I mean it's Danny who's the ex-addict, not Matt.

(Also, ICON!)

[yav-14.livejournal.com]

Or it could me that totally misread the situation. I thought that because he was the guy he created in the blue shirt who got fired that he was the one using in the past. And that the part about being fired, and him telling himself it might be time for rehab, was his warning to himself. I took it as a double message from then and now, but I could have been way off there.

Icon is one of Dunc's. Help yourself, she won't mind.

[brightcupenny.livejournal.com]

Interesting, I hadn't thought of it that way.

[jcberk.livejournal.com]

I figured that the drugs he was using in the present were causing him to create memories that never happened, and in those memories he was getting warnings from his subconscious about his potential future. The warnings don't seem to have reached him though, judging by his still taking the pills at the end....

[brightcupenny.livejournal.com]

Oh no, I totally don't see him as Chandler at all on Studio 60. It's just, I know Matthew Perry did not yet look so old and used-up in '99. And so the flashback kind of grated on me, because it was done in seriousness, and I was just having trouble buying it. (I did love the background music, though.)