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| Obsessed Fan
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| From the Columbia Daily Spectator interview:
"Happily ever after isn't a show, it's an ending. To do a show every week, you need conflict," said Rosenthal. "Sometimes fans want the romantic couple to be together and be happy all the time, but that doesn't provide the most interesting drama."
I don't know what fans of other shows want, but most fans of this show, fans of LL have this to say in response:
Quote: | How can writers think there's no drama in putting these two characters together and watching them try to make a go of it after everything that happened?
Even without the memories of lying, cheating, and jumping into a new marriage - doesn't integrating two step-children, dealing with Emily and Richard's endless disapproval, figuring out where to live (after Luke renovated the house - without enough bedrooms - then Christopher lived and left his flatscreen there). There's always been ample conflict material in a new marriage, and there's so much more to deal with now.
If the writers' vision is so limited that all they can see is "your're pretty, no you're pretty" then I give up. I still can't believe how severely lacking they are in imagination, in understanding, in just about everything, except a bag of cheap shock-tricks.
| Well said caf. When will they finally get it into that thick skull of theirs that we don't need LL to hold hands and skip around their white picket fence all day whistling show tunes. We do want them to hold hands sometimes, and have a home together (perhaps with a fence, white or not, around it), but to do so while keeping their unique often bantering and clashing personalities alive, as they tackle everyday issues of couples, of this specific couple. Just get them together already, fully committed, and let them deal.
Last edited by gjoni : 04-20-2007 at 12:14 PM.
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