then the next day, i read that the writers of Glee are doing a silent episode. no sound, no music.
Wait. What?? They are trying to do a Hush episode? Are they nuts? They do realize that some of their viewers (actually I'm willing to bet the vast majority if my flist and family members are any indication) only watch Glee for the musical numbers, right?
Take away the music...and well, you expose all the things that are massively wrong with Glee. And there goes the audience...
At least Whedon had a genre and a television series in which these concepts actually work plot wise and character wise. I mean you can explain everyone losing their voices and make it suspenseful in a show where the characters are fighting supernatural villains on a daily basis...but not in non-genre tv series.
Are the writers bored? I do wonder about the television writing business at times. Because this seems to happen whenever writers get really comfortable and think there's no way anyone is going to cancel my series, so I'm going to have fun now and see how far I can push the network and studio. Because, writing the same episode every week gets really boring after a while.
It's a weird self-destructive tendency that seems to happen whenever a tv show passes it's five year mark or what I like to call, television writer burn-out syndrom. Althoug with Glee - they seem to be ahead of schedule - since we've only made it to the second season, but Ryan Murphy is an angry tv writer who likes to see if he can make his shows jump the shark without anyone noticing. (He did it all the time with Nip/Tuck).
i wish now, Grey's had gone in that direction.
Sigh, yes. That could have worked. Grey's actually does do silence fairly well and it fits with the genre.
yes, what is going on with Lexie Grey? i mean both guys are hot and caring at what they do. so i can sympathize, but girl just pick!
Sigh. Yes. Lexie Grey to be honest? Grates on my nerves at times. Have the character pick Avery already and move on. This is delving into soap opera territory. Grey's likes to milk these romantic triangles longer than it should, it's not very good at them. It's actually better at friend/romantic triangles - such as Cristina/Meredith/Derek or Owen/Cristina/Meredith or Mark/Callie/Arizona. Where one end of the triangle is the individual's best friend/soul mate and the other is their lover/husband or wife. But whenever they try romantic ie - Alex/Izzie/George or Callie/George/Izzie or Mark/Lexie/Avery - the story loses its thread and it falls into silly melodrama.
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Wait. What?? They are trying to do a Hush episode? Are they nuts? They do realize that some of their viewers (actually I'm willing to bet the vast majority if my flist and family members are any indication) only watch Glee for the musical numbers, right?
Take away the music...and well, you expose all the things that are massively wrong with Glee. And there goes the audience...
At least Whedon had a genre and a television series in which these concepts actually work plot wise and character wise. I mean you can explain everyone losing their voices and make it suspenseful in a show where the characters are fighting supernatural villains on a daily basis...but not in non-genre tv series.
Are the writers bored? I do wonder about the television writing business at times. Because this seems to happen whenever writers get really comfortable and think there's no way anyone is going to cancel my series, so I'm going to have fun now and see how far I can push the network and studio. Because, writing the same episode every week gets really boring after a while.
It's a weird self-destructive tendency that seems to happen whenever a tv show passes it's five year mark or what I like to call, television writer burn-out syndrom. Althoug with Glee - they seem to be ahead of schedule - since we've only made it to the second season, but Ryan Murphy is an angry tv writer who likes to see if he can make his shows jump the shark without anyone noticing. (He did it all the time with Nip/Tuck).
i wish now, Grey's had gone in that direction.
Sigh, yes. That could have worked. Grey's actually does do silence fairly well and it fits with the genre.
yes, what is going on with Lexie Grey? i mean both guys are hot and caring at what they do. so i can sympathize, but girl just pick!
Sigh. Yes. Lexie Grey to be honest? Grates on my nerves at times.
Have the character pick Avery already and move on. This is delving into soap opera territory. Grey's likes to milk these romantic triangles longer than it should, it's not very good at them. It's actually better at friend/romantic triangles - such as Cristina/Meredith/Derek or Owen/Cristina/Meredith or Mark/Callie/Arizona. Where one end of the triangle is the individual's best friend/soul mate and the other is their lover/husband or wife. But whenever they try romantic ie - Alex/Izzie/George or Callie/George/Izzie or Mark/Lexie/Avery - the story loses its thread and it falls into silly melodrama.