two doctors > one

[fahye]

Abnormal Psych exam is done - not fantastic, but not too shitty either. Whatever. It's done. And I have an entire virology lab report to research and write up for Thursday, but tomorrow is the Anzac Day public holiday*, so if you think I am doing anything tonight that is not sitting around drinking G&T and watching serious amounts of Friends and Rome...you are deluded. To celebrate I bought myself some mutant kind of KitKat with coffee goop in it, and a book from the secondhand place at the bus interchange called EBOLA!!!. It looks delightfully sensationalised and trashy. I am a sucker for the ZOMG THRILLING MEDICAL DISASTER books. And apparently the doctor who wrote it is Glenn Close's father, wtf. (Extra trash points for pointedly mentioning this in your introduction, sir!)

Oh hey, flist, please weigh in on this Studio 60 gig. I wasn't going to watch it, but then Ji threw "Chandler Bing & Joshua Lyman, heterosexual lifemates!" at my head, and, well, bugger. I CAN'T NOT WATCH A SHOW WITH THAT PREMISE. She knows how much I adore them both. Devil woman. So, those who know it: what's your opinion? Yay or nay or OMGAWESOME or 'what are you doing, Sorkin'?

In conclusion, this is a fantastic icon.

*Ji, holy shit. Two years? TWO YEARS??

Comments

[hobviously.livejournal.com]

It's really bad. Don't.

[fahye.livejournal.com]

What makes it bad?

[hobviously.livejournal.com]

Sorkin forgot how to write well and remembered only how to be deeply offensive to groups including, but not limited to: Christians, American liberals, American conservatives, gay allies, women, men, the black community, plausibility, the very concept of comedy, people who are interested in not having Amanda Peet's bad acting in their faces, fiction (since everything in it is a thinly-veiled reference to his own career/relationships), people for the prevention of exposition abuse, etc. etc. I stopped watching after a lead character began out-and-out stalking his love interest in an extremely creepy way, which was supposed to be romantic. I'm not exaggerating that it made me feel sick.

Or you can check out my S60 tag. It's a shame, because I had really high hopes for the series (I love Matthew Perry a lot), and the pilot and a couple other episodes are okay, but on the whole: world of no.

[thexpuzzler.livejournal.com]

studio 60... I thought it was... kind of boring. I know there are people who can say a whole lot more on the series concerning its many political, fictional and romantic faux-pas, but I'll just stick with saying it kind of drags on and on and on and at some point, I just stopped watching, because I couldn't care less...

On the other hand, if you're not short on time and your evening is extremely boring, maybe it's a way to spend the evening...

[foreverdirt.livejournal.com]

S60: My friends want to know why I keep watching it, but refuse to cut me off at the source because they find it funny to watch me flail with rage and despair. It has maybe a couple of moments of beautifully observed Sorkin genius per episode, and sometimes the dialogue sparkles and the actors are on fire, but mainly I find it painful -- it's patronising, offensive, self-important in a way I hope is irony but suspect isn't, and the more I find out about Sorkin's life the creepier I find it.

[foreverdirt.livejournal.com]

(This is speaking as someone who loves The West Wing.)

[fahye.livejournal.com]

Maybe I will just get someone who likes it to give me screencaps of Bradley Whitford and Matthew Perry, so that I can make icons that have BOTH OF THEM ON THEM.

That would probably be enough!

[pathstotread.livejournal.com]

*butts in*

A much less painful way to go about this would be to watch the S4/S5 episodes of The West Wing that have both of them in it. Bradley Whitford looks much better as Josh, trufax.

[fahye.livejournal.com]

Ooh, that's right, they had that interview scene together.

[minna.livejournal.com]

Studio 60, I quite liked to start with, and then once Danny started his LOLUROMANTICSTALKING it made me so angry with every episode that I found myself shaking with rage. YMMV. But I went from really in love with the show to feeling sick with anger in the space of about three episodes. It's got other problems, but that was the one thing I couldn't overlook, I guess.

SO YEAH, THAT WOULD BE A NO FROM MY CAMP.

OMG Rome is so amazing <333333333333333 I haven't seen the last two episodes, and I want to, only I don't because then it will be OVER. D: I DON'T WANT IT TO BE OVER.

Have you seen Dexter?

[darthrami.livejournal.com]

Ugh. yes. Stalker!Danny is pretty much what made me call it quits, too, after feeling rather ambivelant about it.

[fahye.livejournal.com]

No! Though I have heard the premise and it sounds like the kind of thing I'd like.

[sophistry]

HI I love how I just jump right in here, but i'truth I FEEL A SOUL-DEEP CONNECTION WITH ROME FANS, AND AM DUTY-BOUND TO HELP THEM. Which is to say, Rome removes all need for social etiquette I may or may not have the last two episodes uploaded, if you want them.

[darthrami.livejournal.com]

I vote nay. It had such potential, but then Aaron Sorkin went and wanked all over the screen. Though I find people who didn't watch SN and WW liked it a lot better than people who did. People who did (myself included) sort of went, "but you've already done this. AND BETTER."

And then it went on break/hiatus/we're-not-cancelled-really!-something. Somebody on my f-list works on the show, so I know they did finish out filming the season, but nobody seems to know whether those eps will be aired or not.

[schiarire.livejournal.com]

Whatever, so it's awful! But I have to get this far!

[Danny is sitting on Matt's chest after a struggle on the beach.]
Matt: Are people looking at us right now?
Danny: I think they are.
Matt: Well, could you punch me in the face or something, 'cause to a casual observer this appears a little homoerotic for my comfort.
Danny: I definitely hear you on that.

Have to!

It's only episode 3, so it won't be a waste of my whole life.

[fahye.livejournal.com]

You could totally make me icons of that, right?

[schiarire.livejournal.com]

Without you sitting through it yourself . . . ?

Maybe.

[fahye.livejournal.com]

Going by that quote, I think I'll watch it. But you make better icons than I do.

[schiarire.livejournal.com]

OK. We'll give it three and jump ship. *prepares*

[schiarire.livejournal.com]

Also, TWO YEARS? That's almost a personal crisis in and of itself.

[fahye.livejournal.com]

I KNOW. I feel somewhere in between domestic and traumatised.

[schiarire.livejournal.com]

Yes, exactly. It is a rife feeling.

Shall we do something to honor and/or jump up and down on the occasion?

[fahye.livejournal.com]

I'm about to go to bed. I plan on sleeping for at least ten hours, then waking up and pulling together a lab report. I am dying to do SOME kind of triplet-threading, but ugh. Time. Maybe I'll just write more self-indulgent fic in my spare moments. AND YOU SHOULD WORK ON THAT AU THING. We shall celebrate by spamming each other with snippets of well-worded cynicism.

[schiarire.livejournal.com]

No, Ozorne/Thom AU has to wait until I am not crawling around the spectre of a 20-page term paper and/or taking finals. But I will never say no to more self-indulgent fic on this topic . . .

[agoodshinkickin.livejournal.com]

The problem with Studio 60 is that it tries so hard to have earth shatteringly important West Wing drama, but is about sketch comedy and not foreign policy.

I wanted very much to love this show, I did. It has Baby Cordry on it and Chandler and Josh! But in the end all it really had to offer me was a mockery of my political leanings, a totally unbelievable love story that was jammed down our throats, and seriously bad hair on the part of Bradly Whitford.

[silveraspen]

I wanted to like Studio 60. I liked Sports Night "all right," and I loved The West Wing so very, very much.

Others above have said what's wrong with S60. It's a pseudointellectual self-referential platform for Sorkin to air his own views in an irritating and insulting fashion. It's a soapbox, not a show, and a badly constructed soapbox at that.

And, once you know just how much the character of Harriet Hayes is based upon Kristin Chenoweth, who he himself used to date -- the Matt-Harriet stalkertastic creepy dynamic loses ALL HUMOR. (It's a lot. Harriet's appearance and background and reason for relationship troubles with Matt is identical, from what I've heard/interviews with Kristin, who's been pretty damn gracious about the whole thing).

Add in the fact that he pulled the pregnancy trick with the Jordan character, and has since explained all her "wacky hijinks" as the result of pregnancy hormones, turning what was a female executive into a caricature of all the worst stereotypes...

Do the screencap thing. Watch the pilot and the Christmas special (which is HEARTBREAKING and beautiful because of the New Orleans musicians' storyline) and the next-to-last episode in which Matt pulls off a HELL of a performance as a man addicted to prescription meds (using his own personal experience to inform his acting, and oh my lord how painful must it have been). THOSE are worth it.

Skip the rest. Seriously.