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Jul. 18th, 2004 09:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cleolindaOMGWTFSIXFEETUNDER!
I have to say, Alan Ball completely fucked the "Entourage" premiere over, because who the hell wants to watch some dumb half-hour Hollywood comedy after watching that trauma for well nigh on twenty minutes?
I mean, WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT ABOUT? David picks up some random freakshow, drives around with him for five minutes of screen time, and then gets taken hostage, robbed, beat up, forced to do crack, and nearly set on fire? For real, why did we have to watch this for almost half an hour? I don't have a problem with the show trying to be like, "Look, David is insecure and prone to random hookups and Keith is off on tour with that crazy Michelle Trachtenberg character, and this is what he gets for picking up a stranger like a moron." I have a problem with the show drawing the plotline out for half the show, no commercials or interruptions or breaks or relief of any kind, and turning the show into a complete horror movie. Basically, it was as if the show itself had been hijacked--as if the viewer were, too--and while I'm sure that's envelope-pushing and ground-breaking and great television and what the fuck all, I feel angry for having sat through the whole thing.
YOU MADE MY BEST FRIEND CRY, HORS!
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Date: 2004-07-18 07:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-07-18 08:09 pm (UTC)http://forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/index.php?showtopic=3117754&st=0
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Date: 2004-07-18 10:38 pm (UTC)That little inferno is going to be smouldering for a while. Sheesh. >_>;
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Date: 2004-07-18 08:01 pm (UTC)I feel unclean. And cranky. And VERY UNCLEAN.
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Date: 2004-07-18 08:12 pm (UTC)I spent the first half of "Entourage" hating everyone just on principle, I was so mad. Damn.
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Date: 2004-07-18 08:13 pm (UTC)And I'm with you. Groundbreaking and gritty and shocking, fine. But OMG not for that long, it just made me upset. Of course, I cry at the Little Mermaid, so it's all relative.
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Date: 2004-07-19 01:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-07-19 03:48 pm (UTC)I can't help it!
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Date: 2004-07-18 08:03 pm (UTC)Really watching someone be pointlessly tortured isn't entertainment, it's punishment.
Icz
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Date: 2004-07-18 08:18 pm (UTC)I feel brutalized, and not in some "wow, cool!" way, but like, why do I watch this show? I care about David, the actors and previous stories have made me like David. This episode just makes feel jerked around and manipulated.
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Date: 2004-07-18 09:27 pm (UTC)After it was over, I did think it was kind of odd that they spent so much uninterrupted time on that segment (usually the show hops around quite a bit).
And DAMMIT, I want to know more about that psychic and the Lisa thing.
As you know I've been into this thing from the beginning, so I'm pretty attached to the characters.
I already got my heart ripped out when they killed off Lisa.
Tonight (last night) I was on the couch horrified that they were going to take out David, then pissed that they fucked with my head like that.
God I love this show! :)
Damn you Alan Ball!
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Date: 2004-07-19 01:02 pm (UTC)Nate: She's dead....
Psychic: no she's (the one I'M talking about) alive.
Brenda.
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Date: 2004-07-19 01:36 pm (UTC)Seems to easy.
They'd be missing an opportunity to weave in some ghostly sub-plot.
I know that Lisa is physically dead, but there's a lot they could do with her spiritually.
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Date: 2004-07-18 10:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-07-18 10:03 pm (UTC)I still want to see what happens next episode, though.
not as manipulative as it could have been
Date: 2004-07-18 10:29 pm (UTC)After two years ago when we got the white screen treatment with Nate's name on it I know we cannot put ANYTHING past these people. So you have to just trust them sometimes. I would not have been surprised if we'd taken another alternate-SFU branch with David dying.
I just hope it leads to something. Some change in David's life. Too much shit happens to David without consequences. Until his life flashed before his eyes at the end, I was thinking it was ... disrespectful, in a way ... that there had been no mention or flashback of the gay kid who was beaten to death in a previous season. Because surely that's what David was thinking about.
Still, I was kind of glad they kept showing us David instead of showing us the other crap. I'm into David and Keith. I'm into Claire. I am NOT into George's son, or Rico's marriage, and I don't give a damn about poor dead Lisa. I love Lili Taylor and would gladly have her babies, but as far as her presence on SFU, I was glad to see her go. She was always a total bitch to Nate, I don't know why he even wants her back, and so on. The character was one-dimensional in her supposed complexity.
One really bothering-me part of this whole night (in some shallow hey-it's-only-tv way) was the promos for next week, where David doesn't want to tell the Fishers what happened. WTF. The COMPANY VAN is stolen, and a ... client ... is left in the middle of the street, and you don't tell your partners how it came about? Bullshit. There's no way David will be able to hide this event from anyone, and I'm hoping they surprise me next week showing me how the promos were misleading.
PS. That was sort of a commercial for crack. I don't think I've ever seen someone depicted smoking crack on a 'mainstream' TV show before and enjoying it.
Re: not as manipulative as it could have been
Date: 2004-07-18 10:33 pm (UTC)As for crack--you know, I didn't think about that, but yeah, you don't see that every day. But as Chris Rock used to say, "Ain't nobody got to sell you crack! Crack sells itself!"
Re: not as manipulative as it could have been
Date: 2004-07-19 05:51 am (UTC)Oh, yes. That's sweet. You will soon learn that SFU wants to make you mad. I actually didn't see this episode (and am really scared of it now) but it is a grand tradition on this show to totally fuck up the main characters out of nowhere, apparently for no reason whatsoever.
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Date: 2004-07-20 12:45 pm (UTC)Also, I didn't know how else to contact you and I thought you'd enjoy commenting on this (http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040720/people_nm/people_jackson_dc) in your blog or wherever.
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Date: 2004-07-20 01:18 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-07-20 01:41 pm (UTC)You might even do a series on it: pick a few of your favorites and comment. (http://www.disturbingauctions.com/) ()
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