in vain have i struggled. it will not do.
I've been having a smushy romcom-seeking kind of holiday weekend. For nostalgia purposes, I reread Pride & Prejudice over the break and forgot just how much I enjoy so much of it, and how great the Darcy/Lizzy bantering is. And how much I love some of the side characters, even -- the 1940 adaptation always played Lady Catherine de Bourgh as being a
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How do you feel about Will/Kenzie? Because I totally dig them more than I dig Jim/Maggie. I have other things to say on the later, but I'll wait until you finish the season.
Which, come talk to me when you do, please!
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The show is so long per episode, so I'll see how long it takes me to finish, but yeah. I mean, I don't hate Will. I actually like him fine, and have since the pilot. But he's smug and egotistical and he yells a lot and he's such a representation of Sorkin in the way that he sees himself that the smugness is kind of overpowering. And yeah, I'm just floored by the ladies, mostly, and then also Jim and Neal. It's way preachier than some of his other stuff (or, at least, more visibly preachy) but it's Sorkin doing himself. It's going to be idealistic and it's going to be moral (although the argument in Will's office about how they have to make the news about the news again and not about ratings was just soooo heavy-handed) and it's going to have walk-and-talks and be fast with a flashy kind of dialogue. You know what you walk into when you're dealing with Sorkin so anyone who complains, I'm just sort of like ... and ( ... )
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