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Just finished the last episode right now (and the series)

posted 13 years ago by SeasonalAffective
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I don't care what anyone else says; the show was brilliant, engaging, witty, funny, emotional, and well made. It was always a step ahead, and Aaron Sorkin is a genius.

The acting was quite good all around, the writing top notch, the direction fantastic, and it all meshed together to produce an excellent product.

People can bitch and moan about the skits on the (fictional) Studio 60 show not being funny (which, to me, is rather like complaining that Dunder Mifflin's employees don't do much more than pulling pranks on each other, planning parties, and dealing with Michael Scott's love life and life issues) but that's besides the point; it's really just background filler material, and what happened otherwise in the show is what needs to be focused on. That's a lame excuse to dislike this show, and it's silly, seeing as how the skits accomplished what they needed to accomplish, and were featured very minimally as it is.

One more time: I don't give a damn that it didn't find an audience (since when is that indicative of being worthy of one?), and I don't care about the jagoffs who come online and bitch about tv shows and movies they don't have half the talent it takes to produce -- this show was fantastic in every way.

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[–] SeasonalAffective 13 years ago

Makes a lot of sense! Thanks for posting!

[–] froofiedadawg 13 years ago

I completely agree. I adore this show, it is possibly my favorite show ever. I can watch it over and over and it never gets old.

[–] Val-El 13 years ago

what would be your favorite episode?

[–] froofiedadawg 13 years ago

I find it difficult to choose just one, but my favorites are the Pilot, the Nevada Day episodes, and The Christmas Show.

[–] Val-El 13 years ago

I totally agree!

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[–] fabrice4211 13 years ago

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I just finished it as well, and I gotta say, the end dragged on for waaaay too long. By the 2nd episode into the K&R, I couldn't have cared less about Tom's brother, Jordan, the baby or Simon's media controversy. It's insane that those episodes dragged on an issue longer than the length of a feature film. If I had had to watch this on TV as opposed to DVD and was just waiting a week for something to just be continually padded like that, I simply would have tuned out. Also, having 4 separate story lines all resolve on a positive note in one episode was just ridiculous. If this had been some average C-grade mindless tv series, that still would have stuck out like dog's balls. In a TV show of this quality (which was great otherwise), I can't get why they did it.

It's really too bad that they went this way. Otherwise, I thought it was a great show.

[–] SeasonalAffective 13 years ago

Because the show was getting cancelled and they wanted to wrap it up before it ended. Notice what you say refers to the last couple of episodes, not to anything before them. Sorkin knows how to write, but he had no choice here.

[–] fabrice4211 13 years ago

In what sense do you think he had no other choice? Why couldn't he have shortened how long it took to resolve those plot lines?

I did say the rest of the show was great otherwise. I really enjoyed it, that's why I couldn't make sense of why they did drag it out like that.

[–] SeasonalAffective 13 years ago

You'd have to ask him. I assume that since shortening it, just to start new plot lines that would not be resolved in Season 2 (since there would be no Season 2 and they were well aware of that) would be pointless, they just went with that instead.