It would have bee phony and cheap if the kid simply sat back, thought a moment and then accepted the news. Adults don't do that well. High school kids? Not so much.
The episode spent a good deal of time rather effectively showing just how alienated and alone that boy feels a lot of the time. When she tells him that she's been lying, he's faced with his own already rather large insecurities. I know from my own life experiences that when you suddenly have all your insecurities flare up in an exchange with another person, it doesn't tend to go as well as one would like. So, it wasn't a fair reaction. It wasn't a reasoned reaction. I WAS an honest and real reaction.
The episode spent a good deal of time rather effectively showing just how alienated and alone that boy feels a lot of the time. When she tells him that she's been lying, he's faced with his own already rather large insecurities. I know from my own life experiences that when you suddenly have all your insecurities flare up in an exchange with another person, it doesn't tend to go as well as one would like. So, it wasn't a fair reaction. It wasn't a reasoned reaction. I WAS an honest and real reaction.
I don't happen think it was realistic. Nor do I think it should have been. This show is not about naturalism and having verisimilitude. Its whole schtick is camp and over-done-ness.
My problem is not that the reaction was unfair but that it didn't fit inside the reality they were creating.
They made a character who was so virginal and sex-focused that he mentioned that his penis worked but then suddenly as he's being kissed he has an emotional reaction to something so minor (and yes, it was minor and and heavy-handedly thrown in on top of normal dialogue) and while the promise of more sexy kissing comes along he chooses to push the girl away?
They didn't set it up properly.
If his intention was to connect more than to sex it up, they would have need to make it more serious or written it better.
Don't get me wrong, I liked the show but the whole thing felt forced.
They were trying to be hip and cutting edge and I think it smacked of that.
And the constant Auto-tuning turning good singers into poor ones is getting on my nerves.
~g~
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"Do not waste time bothering whether you "love" your neighbor; act as if you did...When you are behaving as if you loved someone you will presently come to love him."-- C. S. Lewis
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CrazedWeasel
"Do not waste time bothering whether you "love" your neighbor; act as if you did...When you are behaving as if you loved someone you will presently come to love him."-- C. S. Lewis
Fringe, Glee, and Supernatural (this week's)
- 15/11/2009 06:49:58 AM
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Glee! *spoilers of course*
- 15/11/2009 03:51:59 PM
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I would like to state...
- 16/11/2009 03:17:41 PM
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They all are, though.
- 16/11/2009 03:55:49 PM
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Him and Quinn equally terrible though.
- 16/11/2009 06:28:15 PM
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Re: Him and Quinn equally terrible though.
- 16/11/2009 06:42:25 PM
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About Peter's past in Fringe
- 16/11/2009 08:20:35 PM
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*NM*
Re: About Peter's past in Fringe
- 17/11/2009 01:05:04 AM
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Glee? I agree.
- 17/11/2009 04:13:36 AM
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It's understandable though.
- 17/11/2009 03:43:02 PM
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I agree.
- 17/11/2009 07:23:24 PM
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I don't.
- 18/11/2009 04:57:30 AM
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What would have been better then?
- 18/11/2009 08:51:55 PM
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I think it was one of the most real moments they've had so far.
- 19/11/2009 02:33:49 PM
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The show isn't supposed to be real.
- 19/11/2009 03:57:44 PM
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