Millie


1st they replace Daisy and now noticed that they used a different actress for "Un George" which is title name they gave her when I googled character up. I really wanted to like this movie but hard when so many changes are shown (i.e. no Rube, Roxy more mellow)

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It was hard, but at least it gave some needed closure. George and Reggie getting a proper goodbye being the main thing, and George and George's family both moving on.

No Rube sucked, but at least we know he got to move on... just wish the story would have lasted long enough to find out where and what was next.

Roxy was more mellow because she was finally getting over her death. The episode where we found out her story showed she used to have the sass, but didn't seem so angry. The anger came from her death, something that took her 20 something years with Rube's guidance to really start getting over. And besides... she got a few good "Roxy scenes" while trying to kill Cameron.

They did suck royally at recasting Daisy (if they had to do it to begin with). Sarah didn't portray Daisy correctly at all, she portrayed her as a shallow ditz [which the show had gone great lengths to prove wasn't true, and that the shallow ditzy attitude she started with (and had mostly removed before the end of the show) was a defense mechanism covering feelings of insecurity and lonliness]. It may not have been entirely her fault, but Sarah wasn't a good Daisy substitute... they would have been better dropping her character as well if they couldn't get Laura back.

With UnGeorge... the only issue I had was they made her prettier and not looking like a down in the gutter crack head... though that fits better with all the comments "Millie" got on her looks.

Overall the movie was not as great as the show, but it was nice to get the closure we did.

Someone ever tries to kill you... you try to kill em right back.

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The closure we got was almost for a different series, not the two seasons we saw on Showtime. Godchaux and Masius, who were showrunners after Fuller was ousted and wrote the last four episodes of S2, also wrote the script for the Movie. The extensive set up in S2 between Reggie and George was pretty much dropped and the DLM universe rules (especially about relating memories) were ignored to bring the two together in the Movie. It did show that the two characters would work well together both drama and humor.

Mason was always a flexible character, but that wasn't him on the screen. Same for Roxy. Daisy is odd because she was the only character created by G&M (the rest being Fuller's) and even if Laura Harris tried that character in the Movie script wasn't Daisy. G&M spent a lot of screen time crafting their Daisy character and Harris brought her to life. It didn't help that Sarah -commented in an interview - didn't try to do Daisy like Harris did.

The prettier unGeorge wasn't really new to the Movie. They stopped showing the unGeorge early on in the series. Even back in S1 after Fuller departed G&M were moving away from the reapers being fringe types in the gutter etc. By S2 George was dressed up nice and prettied up so they could expand the potential story lines. The Fuller George wasn't going to go to the country club and seduce Trip, not in this dimension or any other, but the renovated version created by G&M and finally shown to us in the Movie could.

This change tho was also embedded or hinted at in the first few episodes. Betty, whose double we never saw, certainly didn't come across as homeless person. When Fuller left taking Betty with him, Daisy was brought in and she from the first was portrayed as super seductive and attractive. George's appearance shift fit right in with this.

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