07-29-2013, 04:15 PM
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#141
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Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Maple Ridge, BC
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I find people take this show way too seriously and that includes Sorkin. But I find it quite entertaining. Definitely lacking the quality of some of the big shows, but on my list of shows that i watch right away.
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07-29-2013, 07:11 PM
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#142
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: slightly to the left
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This show is getting downright painful to sit through. The biggest complaint about the first season was all of the pointless relationship drama, so what does Sorkin do? Put even more into the 2nd season. Jim's soapbox moment on the bus was cringe inducing, the "reveal" of the reporter being in Will's apartment was unbelievably predictable, and the fax at the end was pure cheese. The only remotely entertaining thing about that episode was the slapstick humor with a guy falling out of a chair.
The irony in Sorking making a show, railing against the trashyness of modern news, itself being trashy and cliched is too much to take. Maybe that's the point though, and he's being so deep that no one else can see it
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07-29-2013, 09:30 PM
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#143
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: The Void between Darkness and Light
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I feel like I am watching Gilmore Girls, without Lorelei.
I do think Avian Bone Syndrome is a babe though.
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07-31-2013, 10:31 AM
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#144
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First Line Centre
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What's that fish with it's eyes on the bottom side by side? Is it a skate? That's Maggie.
Love the dialogue in this show though.
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07-31-2013, 11:19 AM
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#145
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Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: California
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I still really enjoy watching this show. I find it hilarious. I am actually enjoying the Jim on the Bus covering the campaign as it continues the how politics is covered arc. No real questions, just talking points, no plans because that gives someone something to attack.
The tape recorder blackmail stuff was ridiculous but I still like the show.
Other than Maggie, the show is really well acted.
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07-31-2013, 07:01 PM
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#146
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I want to like this show... However, it is crap. Get the frakin' relationships out of the frakin' story! We don't care! The relationships are making this show lame.
Sorkin you are better than this!
This show is 90% relationship.
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08-06-2013, 05:08 PM
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#147
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Scoring Winger
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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I really enjoy the show a lot and didn't actually understand what the relationship complaints were all about until last weeks episode. Jim giving away the 30 minute interview was not only completely stupid, it wasn't believable in the slightest. With how much of a b***h the red head had been to him, it would have been so much more satisfying if he had accepted the interview, gotten back on the bus and reminded the hot chick that they are competitors.
Anytime Jeff Daniels, Emily Mortimer, Sam Waterston, Thomas Sadoski and even Olivia Munn are on the screen, it is absolutely riveting TV with superb acting and writing. I enjoy the news stories a lot more then the "Ross and Rachel" stuff for sure but until the last episode only felt it was a minor inconvenience rather then a distraction. I am hoping the Occupy Wall Street protests gets more play with the Genoa story line which should right the ship cause it really is a good show and i feel smart when watching it.
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08-06-2013, 06:18 PM
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#148
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Originally Posted by Iceman57
I really enjoy the show a lot and didn't actually understand what the relationship complaints were all about until last weeks episode. Jim giving away the 30 minute interview was not only completely stupid, it wasn't believable in the slightest. With how much of a b***h the red head had been to him, it would have been so much more satisfying if he had accepted the interview, gotten back on the bus and reminded the hot chick that they are competitors.
Anytime Jeff Daniels, Emily Mortimer, Sam Waterston, Thomas Sadoski and even Olivia Munn are on the screen, it is absolutely riveting TV with superb acting and writing. I enjoy the news stories a lot more then the "Ross and Rachel" stuff for sure but until the last episode only felt it was a minor inconvenience rather then a distraction. I am hoping the Occupy Wall Street protests gets more play with the Genoa story line which should right the ship cause it really is a good show and i feel smart when watching it.
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See, I disagree, this last week was better than the previous week. Jim is a producer and producers assign stories and being that he's not a news reporter it's not that big of a deal for him. He knows what he did, but it's not a big deal for his career. I've done some really stupid career stuff for a woman.
They actually move towards actual story in this episode. It was strong and it developed more character.
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08-06-2013, 08:59 PM
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#149
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Sep 2005
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Originally Posted by To Be Quite Honest
They actually move towards actual story in this episode. It was strong and it developed more character.
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And a guy didn't fall off a comically small chair 3 times in a single scene.
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08-07-2013, 05:38 AM
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#150
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Has lived the dream!
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Where I lay my head is home...
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I totally called Jim was going to pull a boneheaded move like that when the press organizer asked him what he wanted to make her comment go away. It was stupid, he shouldn't have done it, but I don't know if it was unbeliveable. He's just a sucker. Was friends with a guy who was just like that with girls for a long while. Some of the guys on the board may know exactly who I am talking about, he even looks a little like him. Though I don't know if any of them watch this show.
The only thing that bugged me a little was why press lady felt she needed to make a deal. Sure she said something really dumb, but there was no record of it. No witnesses. It'd be his word against hers, and people could logically assume he was just grinding an axe cause of his treatment. Was a weak way to move the plot forward. But it's a small complaint.
Oh, Maggie's story (minus the fact that they wanted the camera, or maybe including that, but I didn't guess that part) was completely predictable too. But it was still a decent story.
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08-07-2013, 09:29 AM
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#151
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Originally Posted by Daradon
The only thing that bugged me a little was why press lady felt she needed to make a deal. Sure she said something really dumb, but there was no record of it. No witnesses. It'd be his word against hers, and people could logically assume he was just grinding an axe cause of his treatment. Was a weak way to move the plot forward. But it's a small complaint.
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I worked in the media and I don't think that was unrealistic at all. Yes, she could have denied it but he could still have reported it - and the damage is done. The ones who knew he was being mistreated on the tour are not the ones who matter if this was reported.
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08-07-2013, 09:44 AM
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#152
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Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Calgary, AB
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My only complaint is Maggie. She is scary to look at. The super pale look is a big turn off.
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08-07-2013, 11:04 AM
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#153
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Originally Posted by Fire
My only complaint is Maggie. She is scary to look at. The super pale look is a big turn off.
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Now enjoy the show!
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08-07-2013, 01:26 PM
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#154
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Powerplay Quarterback
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Originally Posted by Fire
My only complaint is Maggie. She is scary to look at. The super pale look is a big turn off.
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It's not the super pale look that's a problem for me - it's her tiny, tiny face. Her head is normal sized but her face is tiny!
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08-08-2013, 06:29 AM
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#155
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Scoring Winger
Join Date: May 2008
Location: Syracuse, NY
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Originally Posted by To Be Quite Honest
Now enjoy the show!
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08-08-2013, 07:00 AM
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#156
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God of Hating Twitter
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I love this show, but yeah less relationship more news, thats the strong suit of the show.
Plus Sloan, wow, Sloan.
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08-08-2013, 08:59 AM
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#157
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mmm Munn munn munn on that sandwich.
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08-08-2013, 12:18 PM
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#158
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: slightly to the left
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Originally Posted by Thor
I love this show, but yeah less relationship more news, thats the strong suit of the show.
Plus Sloan, wow, Sloan.
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The only thing I don't like about her character is that they made her nerdy and awkward. I've never met a woman as hot as that who was socially awkward, it's as bad as those teen movies who try to dress down a smoking hot actress to make her the outcast who finds love at the end
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08-08-2013, 12:22 PM
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#159
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Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda
The only thing I don't like about her character is that they made her nerdy and awkward. I've never met a woman as hot as that who was socially awkward, it's as bad as those teen movies who try to dress down a smoking hot actress to make her the outcast who finds love at the end
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A form of aspergers would do it.
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08-11-2013, 11:42 PM
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#160
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: slightly to the left
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So have they lost their continuity with this show? We saw Maggie cut her hair off at the end of the last episode, but tonight it's magically back? I thought maybe this episode was in a different place in the timeline, but then they directly referenced the Africa trip
I'm guessing this is due to Sorkin deciding to re-write the season midway through, but damn it just looks amateurish
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