Studio 60

[somedaybitch]

what.the.fuck.Aaron?????????

do you honestly expect ANYONE that isn't self-indulgent, self-absorbed, head-up-ass Leftist!Hollywood to buy that there's an actual parallel between The Blacklist and today? are you fucking high? okay, don't answer that. i don't want to know.

do you SEE anyone not hiring Susan Sarandon? do you SEE anyone screaming in the papers about how Saturday Night Live can't get Bush!Bashing skits on the air? or anyone pulling Jon Stewart off the air? or any of those writers getting pulled in front of House Committees on Un-American activities? hell, do you SEE a committee on Un-American activities, for fuck's sake?

was it a groovy plotline? yup. was it well executed? absolutely. was Eli Wallach brilliant like fucking whoa? hell yes. was it zomg so very kewl to treat that man like the Elder Statesman that he was? hell yes, again.

do you get to legitmately throw away a line like the network has problems with political skits??? jeezuz gawd, no, you hypocritical bastards.

you want to write something daring, Aaron? write a skit bashing on the Democrats, or the UN, or Europe, or Islamofascists or something, because any brain dead monkey with a Commodore 64 keyboard can bash on Bush. there's nothing fucking hard, or daring, or edgy, or brilliant about it. why? because EVERYONE ALREADY DOES IT, JACKASS.


:::ahem:::

that said, i loved the subplots with Tom and his parents, and the black comedy versus white comedy. and drunk!Jordan was priceless, and the look on Matt's face when Eli was telling the story about the guy writing to impress the girl? guh.

i heart Matt/Harry. i rilly, rilly do.

i'm not sure about the Jack bit at the end though. i think Sorkin's still too over the top with The Message-ness, and that he, just like the Hollywood he's railing against, is stereotyping too much. Jack as MajorNetworkTool is too bull in a china shop, and Aaron can do better, do more subtle, make his point without making me want to hunthimdownandbeattheholyfuckoutofhim hork.

Comments

[cretkid.livejournal.com]

I did, overall, enjoy this episode. a whole lotta love for Eli Wallach. But as I was saying with a The West Wing fan on IM last night, the entire Cal-Eli-can't remember character's name thing where Cal figures out who Eli is, we were thinking the dialogue was a wee bit familiar, particularly "You would know it better as..." line (I'm massively paraphrasing here) -- Sorkin's writen that before, in other WW2 themed subplots in The West Wing, as both of us could see Toby or CJ saying that exact same line.

It may be the veterans who were protesting the WW2 exhibit at the Smithsonian or it may have been the woman who freaked out after seeing a portrait on the White House Tour, but we're both fairly certain it was a very similar line used in both instances.

It was the only thing -- outside the 3 airheads ("And this is Trinket." / "Treasure.") -- that made me cringe in the entire episode, and the annoying throwaway line about not being able to do political skits. Twerp

[somedaybitch.livejournal.com]

ditto...much with the love, still, but ditto.