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the_dala at 11:17pm on 17/06/2007
the_dala at 11:17pm on 17/06/2007Ugh. I have tried to work on three different fics tonight - I even started one of them from scratch, thinking it might help - and I just can't make any of them work. And reading fic just makes me more frustrated. I'm going to give up on it and squee over a show nobody else watches instead.
Through slightly nefarious means, I have gotten my hands on the third and final season of "American Dreams," and I just - this was truly one of the best shows on television, ever. Ever. Incredible writing, a near-perfect cast, multiple layers of relevance, drama and humor and poignancy and truth - all set to the greatest music ever made. And this season premiere episode has some of my favorite moments in the entire series. Meg and Sam sitting in court after they were arrested for protesting the war, with Jack and Henry at the other end of the hall going on about lack of respect and being the Greatest Generation, and Meg says, "We'll never be like them" - and they are, they will be, they must be. And JJ's phone call home, when he asks Beth when the baby is due - Christmas - and he chokes out that his tour isn't over until spring - he won't be there for her pregnancy, he won't be there for the birth, he may very well never live to see his child.
And then Donald is in the second episode, and it still breaks my heart how true that portrayal was. The episodes where Helen discovers him with his partner (and counsels him to seek the help of the church, as she would in 1964) are in the second season, but his friendship with Patty is in this one. Donald: "Third person always seems a little pretentious." Patty: "I know. That's why I like it." I found Meg's and JJ's journeys/coming-of-age more satisfying, but Patty is the one who always had me covering my face because it was like watching myself onscreen. I think if I'd had siblings, it would be exactly how I was.
I loved BtVS and GG a lot, but I've never connected personally to a show the way I did to AD. I still resent NBC for killing it (without an ending), no matter how awesome "Heroes" and "The Office" may be.
God, I've been in a rotten mood all day. Maybe it was the sun? But it's definitely not my fault that our waiter sucked tonight. I just maybe shouldn't have complained about it at such length.
I'm for bed. Grumbling at the world at large.
Through slightly nefarious means, I have gotten my hands on the third and final season of "American Dreams," and I just - this was truly one of the best shows on television, ever. Ever. Incredible writing, a near-perfect cast, multiple layers of relevance, drama and humor and poignancy and truth - all set to the greatest music ever made. And this season premiere episode has some of my favorite moments in the entire series. Meg and Sam sitting in court after they were arrested for protesting the war, with Jack and Henry at the other end of the hall going on about lack of respect and being the Greatest Generation, and Meg says, "We'll never be like them" - and they are, they will be, they must be. And JJ's phone call home, when he asks Beth when the baby is due - Christmas - and he chokes out that his tour isn't over until spring - he won't be there for her pregnancy, he won't be there for the birth, he may very well never live to see his child.
And then Donald is in the second episode, and it still breaks my heart how true that portrayal was. The episodes where Helen discovers him with his partner (and counsels him to seek the help of the church, as she would in 1964) are in the second season, but his friendship with Patty is in this one. Donald: "Third person always seems a little pretentious." Patty: "I know. That's why I like it." I found Meg's and JJ's journeys/coming-of-age more satisfying, but Patty is the one who always had me covering my face because it was like watching myself onscreen. I think if I'd had siblings, it would be exactly how I was.
I loved BtVS and GG a lot, but I've never connected personally to a show the way I did to AD. I still resent NBC for killing it (without an ending), no matter how awesome "Heroes" and "The Office" may be.
God, I've been in a rotten mood all day. Maybe it was the sun? But it's definitely not my fault that our waiter sucked tonight. I just maybe shouldn't have complained about it at such length.
I'm for bed. Grumbling at the world at large.
cranky
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Feel better. *hugs*