The Everwood Rewatch Fest: "Friendly Fire" (S1, Ep. 3)
We'll keep this up for one week and then go on to the next episode. After you've watched the episode, you can comment on it anyway you'd like, big or small. You can focus on certain characters, scenes, quotes, or the episode as a whole. You can tie the episode to the rest of the series, or comment about it as a self-contained episode. It's all up to you! You can always give your thoughts after the one week period, as all rewatch threads will stay open for more thoughts and anymore discussion. Thanks!
Friendly Fire Written By: Oliver Goldstick Directed By: Danny Leiner Quote:
If you haven't already, please feel free to comment on our previous episodes: The Pilot The Great Doctor Brown |
This was one of those episodes that told me that Everwood really was different. It’s not many family dramas that would reveal that the kindly pregnant neighbor lady was actually a surrogate for a never-previously-mentioned 55-year-old woman. :look: This, it should go without saying, is a Good Thing.
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I wish that they had kept him on. |
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Sorry, I have been quiet.... I watched "The Great Dr. Brown" a few days ago, but when I came back online everything had already been said. :look: And I had forgotten a lot... I should start taking notes, something is wrong with my head. |
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Magilla wasn't mentioned. What did you think of him? |
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I really didn't care for the Magilla storyline. Poor Delia! She had difficulty finding friends...I find that fact really difficult to believe. An adorable girl like Delia would have found a couple of nice girls to sit with. She was cute, didn't have purple hair, stood up to Miss Violet (that would have earned her respect and a following). Here comes Magilla.....he bullies her and becomes her friend....then acts mean to her when he's with his other friends....then plays barbie dolls with her.....then has to move and is not allowed to see her again! How much should that poor girl take! :eek: I really didn't see a need for that particular storyline. |
The only major problem with Magilla I had was that I could never actually buy him as a bully, even a grade three or four bully. His insults were awful, he wasn't even that big and he was not scary at all, and in fact actually looked scared of Delia at times! Now, we know that Delia can throw one heck of a punch, but he sure didn't know that!
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Also, with Delia's situation it is pretty realistic: To be socially more passive when your mother just died and you have been moved to the middle of nowhere. It is obvious that she really wants friends, but she isn't very active, she doesn't do that much about it, because God knows she has enough things to worry about at that point. By the time summer rolled along and everybody was having fun at the pool, she was ready to have fun again and really wanted to have fun again, that's why she became more active, socially, because a pool isn't all that much fun when you're on your own. I believe when the summer came, she was a different person towards these girls, she acted differently, because she didn't just want friends anymore, she needed them.
That explanation would work with a 12-year-old for me as well, but from what it looks like from the outside, the cliquism you have in America is a lot worse than what I have ever experienced in my entire life, so you're probably right and at the age of 12 Delia wouldn't have made friends so easily anymore... |
^ Agreed on both points you two.
Not much more to add to the discussion though. Andy's, "I was once a happy sack of hormones" remains to be one of his best lines. Ever. :lol: Some people didn't like the whole speechifying scenes in Mama Joy's(maybe at TWOP), but I still like how they work so well together. Plus, Treat makes an ass of himself in front of Nina for the first time! What's not to love there? :) |
Aw, I actually rather like the speechifying, as well. Mainly because, while it could come off as this stagey, expository exchange, it's so totally in-character for Andy and Harold both. Plus, Nina reacts the way a normal person would, so that helps mitigate the stageyness, too.
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Yeah, nothing really all that profound to talk about in that one, heh, but I still like it. :) It's clearly nowhere near as good as the first two episodes, or even the fourth, but it does work in its own way. Maybe because of how quotable so much of it is. |
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Oh! And continuing the lip gloss discussion, Gregory's, "you're making me uncomfortable Wendell" delivery is so perfect there. The epitomy of deadpanned goodness. ;) |
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