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So I'm a few episodes in (of Season 1) and ODAAT is really charming and warm. It also helps me deal with a stressful long haul of work on a deadline over the holiday - I break it up with more of the show or other stuff. I didn't realize it might be on the bubble for a third season; I assumed it would get one because it's consistently gotten very good press, but I also know Netflix has been tightening the belt lately and become a bit less permissive re: numbers. I still expect it to be renewed but I'll keep watching. I worked on a great Norman Lear doc a few years ago and was pleased when he came back in force with this show, which I hadn't expected to work out, but it has. I'll have to re-read the interviews he and Kellett did about their creative process in S1. -
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I've been putting it off, but I'm already procrastinating on a film deadline today so I shall oblige.
Ooh la la - Seventh Doctor gurus Andrew Cartmel and Ben Aaronovitch are writing a comic for him. Paul Cornell is also apparently doing or has done one for the Third Doctor - I should read both.
Great piece on Sara Gilbert's evolution to showrunner.
I know Martin talked about how she and the writers felt there was nowhere else to go with Lucy as a character, that it hadn't worked out. She was certainly seen as an annoying youth-oriented "Scrappy-Doo" type by the audience and critics when she first arrived, and in her second and final season was mostly irrelevant til she got killed off. But her death became a seminal moment. Maria Bello quit on her own AFAIK, which is a shame because she was (and is) great. Same with Jorja Fox as Maggie Doyle.
In perhaps the unlikeliest TP connection of all, @dragonflies' post about the bizarre Karate Kid revival has led me to discover from its linked EW article that one of its young stars is Xolo Maridueña, best known as the lovestruck young boy dating a certain young girl in 1956 in the now legendary Part 8 of Season 3. Small world.
I didn't know until I checked Wikipedia that Jeanie's life sounded so miserable when she returned in the penultimate season. Separated from her husband, kid likely had full-blown AIDS, but still working hard for other AIDS patients. I guess that's something. Gloria Reuben left the show to be a backup singer for Tina Turner - she's acting a lot again today. I never got the Weaver gay thing. It seemed like a weird direction to take a complicated, prickly character, like they thought 'other'ing her would explain her. And pairing her with a woman who soon dies horribly was a tired cliche even then. I fúcking loved Laura Innes. I hope she's still doing a lot. ETA: Wow - she's directing a ton of TV.
Oh, I know it was him. I was being polite. I can't believe they couldn't have found a better love interest for him if they'd absolutely had to change things - they could've put him back with Jeanie Boulet. But I never got over the Corday thing.
I just felt they could not remotely compare to Doug, Carol, etc. And I also felt manipulated by the forced pairing of Corday and Greene. I remember that Lo-Fidelity All-Stars/Pigeonhed song in that famous scene with Lucy on the floor - I was very into British techno at the time and I geeked out when it played on the show.
Unrelated to today's awful tragedy:
Eeeeesh. In other news:
I kind of detached from the show once it became all about Abby, Luka or Carter's drug addiction or romantic foibles. I also couldn't buy into Greene and Corday together - I loved the actors separately, but I felt ending the pairing with Corday and Benton came from BTS stuff, and I hated that change. The show began to be driven by external stuff that felt hollow to me - adding and then killing Lucy Knight (though that two-parter is still incredible), trying to quickly replace Carol and Doug with Abby and Luka, trying to make the show more of a soap opera or section off Corday and Greene (or Benton and the wooden but less 'controversial' Michael Michele) together, etc. I do wish I'd hung in longer, because I loved Chen coming back and Susan Lewis. I saw a bit of it in those years, but the show also seemed to get driven by more and more stunts. Romano is killed by a helicopter, etc. Mark Greene dies a miserable, unnecessary death. I just couldn't be bothered to dig into that. That being said, the show at its lowlights is still way ahead of most similar shows today. It was a cut above most.
Joel Bocko's incredible video essay series Journey Through Twin Peaks - an essential watch for any fan of the show, Lynch or Frost (I only agree with maybe 80-90% of his take on the original series, but that's more than enough) - is returning this year to cover Season 3. Watch the original Journey - which covers the original show, FWWM, Lynch and Frost's subsequent careers up to and just after the announcement of Season 3 - here. Please.
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