When tv goes blech

Feb 16, 2011 12:49

So the last "Episodes"... um, episode managed to wrench a giant "urg" as well as an, "omg, no!" from me. Which... I guess is something? ( spoilers and also a rant )

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sholio February 16 2011, 21:22:29 UTC
Oh, that sounds awful. :( (I don't watch the show, but I have a morbid curiosity so I had to click. And now I'm glad I hadn't started watching it, because there are few fictional tropes I hate worse than characters ruining their friendships/relationships by cheating.)

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horridporrid February 16 2011, 23:19:57 UTC
*nods* Mine, too. And part of what I'd liked about the show was the relationship between the husband and wife! Which is why it may very well turn into a deal-breaker for me. It's dealing with a front and center relationship and the main characters and the characters that I still like are supporting ones. (Well, and the husband, who is a main character. But since he's the one betrayed, I'm not inclined to stick around to watch him get hurt.)

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sistermagpie February 16 2011, 21:49:07 UTC
I reeeeeally hated that scene. It's funny that I was talking to a friend and she blamed him saying that he didn't tell her that her husband hadn't slept with Morning. But I was like...okay, I blame Matt for betraying his friend Shaun ( ... )

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horridporrid February 16 2011, 23:39:52 UTC
Urg, that scene! When it began, I was all "nooo" and then she said stop and I was all, "phe--" and then she kissed him. :(

And the thing is, it just doesn't make sense! When you actively dislike someone as much as Bev dislikes Matt - I mean to the point where she finds his behavior repulsive - they stop being attractive. No matter the conventional handsomeness or charm. You find the thing that doesn't work (his nose is too pointy, or something), and the charm becomes off-putting and... This wasn't the time where that sort of turn from dislike to sexxy! would happen, imo. (If the scene had ended with her saying stop, I think it could have provided a foundation for some sort of unwilling-attraction down the road, but it came too quickly, imo.)

And it was even worse because she had already seemed to run out on her husband with not enough provocation.Her certainty he'd cheated was incredibly flimsy. He'd told her about their "moment"!! (Which, I loved that Morning didn't actually see it as a moment at all ( ... )

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