Fast-talking shows
Apr. 10th, 2021 04:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shallownessAfter the whole ‘wait, this is your finale?’ thing with Scorpion, I looked to see what was next in my DVD boxset pile, and it’s Gilmore Girls season 5. (‘Stars Hollow sounds like just the sort of place I want to be mentally, I thought.’) So, I rewatched the last two episodes of season 4 and enjoyed them a lot : Stars Hollow’s eccentricities and eccentrics, how delightfully wrongfooted Lorelai is over Luke. Ling and Mrs Kim! As everyone piled on Rory for being a singleton, I both felt my hackles rise and thought it was a bit much from the writers. (It doesn’t justify going somewhere with people she barely knows and not thinking to carry enough cash to get herself home independently, let alone the adultery with Dean.) On the other hand, the show does a good job on debunking the notion that men turning up and offering ultimatums without listening to the women they say they care for.
I found it a little difficult to catch all of the visual nuances, especially in the outdoor scenes, but got to terms with it, but man, that really is some fast-paced dialogue. (And I’ve been rewatching The West Wing) I looked up to see how much detail I’d gone into when watching Gilmore Girls on DVD in the past, and realised I watched season 4 in 2016. No wonder I’d forgotten things. I don’t even want to think when these episodes were actually shot and aired. But it’s particularly funny to think of all I’ve seen Sean Gunn and Melissa McCarthy in subsequently.
I’ve been going back over my posts on rewatching The West Wing’s first season (and editing as I go, which was sorely needed as I managed to mistype ‘typos’ and ‘idiocies’ among many other words.) My feeling was that it was a strong start, I enjoyed ‘The State Dinner’, ‘Take This Sabbath Day’ apart from that one line of dialogue that pulled me out of the episode, ‘Celestial Navigation’ (although I think the point about how Josh shouldn’t have spoken so candidly in public about something for recent may have taken the shine off it.)
I think I’m going to plump for ‘In Excelsis Deo’ as my favourite as it gave me the most feels and no quibbles. I have listened to the slightly spoilery podcast with Aaron Sorkin, a substantial chunk of which was about ‘Sports Night.’
I found it a little difficult to catch all of the visual nuances, especially in the outdoor scenes, but got to terms with it, but man, that really is some fast-paced dialogue. (And I’ve been rewatching The West Wing) I looked up to see how much detail I’d gone into when watching Gilmore Girls on DVD in the past, and realised I watched season 4 in 2016. No wonder I’d forgotten things. I don’t even want to think when these episodes were actually shot and aired. But it’s particularly funny to think of all I’ve seen Sean Gunn and Melissa McCarthy in subsequently.
I’ve been going back over my posts on rewatching The West Wing’s first season (and editing as I go, which was sorely needed as I managed to mistype ‘typos’ and ‘idiocies’ among many other words.) My feeling was that it was a strong start, I enjoyed ‘The State Dinner’, ‘Take This Sabbath Day’ apart from that one line of dialogue that pulled me out of the episode, ‘Celestial Navigation’ (although I think the point about how Josh shouldn’t have spoken so candidly in public about something for recent may have taken the shine off it.)
I think I’m going to plump for ‘In Excelsis Deo’ as my favourite as it gave me the most feels and no quibbles. I have listened to the slightly spoilery podcast with Aaron Sorkin, a substantial chunk of which was about ‘Sports Night.’
