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impulsereader) wrote2013-01-31 10:04 pm
impulsereader) wrote2013-01-31 10:04 pm
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Hm. So I've been gorging on Bunheads because I've been watching GG and feeling nostalgic. It's pretty much what I expected, and I'm mostly enjoying it. The dance sequences and Kelly Bishop are definitely my favorite bits. Sutton Foster is a fabulous Skinny Lauren Graham. If you think about any one aspect of it too hard it makes absolutely no sense at all. I'm pretty (strike that and make it 'seriously' - due to ep 7 on right now) disturbed about Boo's family life. So it's all sort of GG taken to the next level of ridiculousness.
The bits which are really, really surreal are the bits when it actually is Gilmore Girls - and they are in there. You honestly could cut them out and string together an entire episode of GG. I swear to you it is the same strummy la-la music. Despite hiring the same guy to compose - he is just reusing the strummy la-la music. That's a paycheck I'd like to get - being paid twice for the same product.
My feeling has been that the process of becoming a better writer involves learning subtlety. As much as I enjoy watching television written by ASP (and I do!!) she's definitely going the other way with it. I really wish Hubbel had stuck around a little longer. I think that show would have been more complicated and interesting.
The bits which are really, really surreal are the bits when it actually is Gilmore Girls - and they are in there. You honestly could cut them out and string together an entire episode of GG. I swear to you it is the same strummy la-la music. Despite hiring the same guy to compose - he is just reusing the strummy la-la music. That's a paycheck I'd like to get - being paid twice for the same product.
My feeling has been that the process of becoming a better writer involves learning subtlety. As much as I enjoy watching television written by ASP (and I do!!) she's definitely going the other way with it. I really wish Hubbel had stuck around a little longer. I think that show would have been more complicated and interesting.
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I thought Lauren Graham was the Skinny Lauren Graham. :-) But yeah, Sutton is great.
"If you think about any one aspect of it too hard it makes absolutely no sense at all."
True that!
"You honestly could cut them out and string together an entire episode of GG."
Someone should do that! Only maybe wait until they've had a few more GG actors on. You know they will. ASP is clearly determined to get the entire cast on there. :-)
"My feeling has been that the process of becoming a better writer involves learning subtlety. As much as I enjoy watching television written by ASP (and I do!!) she's definitely going the other way with it."
Exactly. She's very talented, but subtlety is NOT her best friend. Not even her estranged third cousin.
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I don't think she'll ever get LG, AB, Sookie or Luke, so I really feel she's got the bulk of them already (though not Michel, ironically) Oh, perhaps Lane? She's missing so far. I imagine Carol King will turn up eventually.
Seriously - you won't believe this - Jason Stiles on my screen right now!!!