OK, here’s another new thing-writing a post while watching the second Part of “The Newsroom”. Ostensibly it’ll be more spontaneous than writing on the computer keyboard. Let’s see! Got the idea from Michael Scherer in Time magazine writing about and during the Republican debates. what he wrote was fresh & spontaneous, and clearly read by the SNL staff for their sendups of the candidates. OK, enuf back stuff-here we go!
PartII: mock debate
POWER OUTAGE AND NO CONTINGENCY for it. Mac says “guys” just like Emily does when her Xbox 360 buds are killing her on Minecraft.
Characters are yelling at each other. Aw, gee – power came back on, but not before an intrepid speech by English Mac. Back to Casey coverage…
Neil (the guy from Slumdog Millionaire) wants to be a troll on some website, so he can write about posting fraudulent, incendiary posts that are pre-cleared by the object of his virtual abuse. Which side of the mirror are we on? as time goes on, I find it harder to keep track.
More relationship blah blah ..
Debate prep with the show characters ..
Have you noticed how Mac’s blouses are just like Diane Sawyer’s? So is there a uniform for ladies in front of and behind the camera?
Now the junior girl is brow beating Casey Anthony’s high school acquaintence? She’s holding out, pleading ignorance. Then a guilt trip! Cajoling .. Finally she acquiesces. Jim the junior producer says he isn’t crazy, but his dialogue is bizarre.
More relationship blah blah-Jeez!
The scene switches to the big Kahoona character Will talking to his shrink…more funky dialogue and relationship moia moia (that is that Charlie Brown teacher sound).
More troll stuff-the most interesting part of this plot. Which is slowly thickening..
Whoa-the character said what all us mothers thought about the hypocrisy of prolifers, as it pertains to CA. We decry abortion, while we pillory a woman who had no business ever being a mother. But in the show, this Whoa statement is shoehorned into this multilayered plot. Loses a lot in the traffic.
Then it’s pillory the Republican candidates time in the mock debate. Show their rep to be a sniveling worm with no scruples. Why can’t we all just get along?
Fifteen minutes left and they “lost” the debate they never coulda pulled off anyway. Golly, if I was Jane Fonda I’d fire this gang too for being schizophrenic. Always relationship blah blah interwoven with tiny slivers of powerful plot. And it’s all so fast, nobody could possibly keep up.
And I cannot understand the smart economist gal when she talks-which confuses the whole troll part.
More dangling relationship between the two juniors … o
Sixteen more plot pieces with an obnoxious version of Carole King’s Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow? Horns too loud. Will Will get bumped off? Literally or career-wise, that is the question. But the real question is: do we care anymore?
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