Tom is really not very romantic, is he? I love Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, but I never really bought him as the love of her life, someone she would wander around the house crying about, missing so much. And when they were reunited, and it was supposed to be this heartwarming war hero returns story, but you could literally *hear* the thud. Same as Mr Bingley in that weird Austen thing.
I'm like you, ships ruin many a good show, and not because I'm not romantic, but because the writers just don't seem to know how to write for a couple. Everything is sweet while they are getting to know each other, but once they are a couple, the writers insist on making them dishonest or stupid so they can contrive strife in their life. It is so unrealistic.
As I wrote in another post/thread, the treatment of Nicole did not strike me as racist when the conversation first started, but I realized I really didn't have a dog in this hunt, so I just read the comments. And I definitely see a lot of sense in what was written. So, the witness thing, the 2 of them being important, as a premise, was important to the people that loved a black actress in a co-lead role. The fact that Abby was marginalized--as both a witness and a character--was something that someone in power decided had to happen. Maybe you never got the witness thing because it was under attack from bad writing and bad decisions made about the show, from an early start. That caused a schism in the viewers, and I think some innocent viewers, people whose enjoyment was without racial bias, got caught in the middle of it all.
I'm probably not explaining this very well, but in reading posts, I realized there were fans who liked certain aspects of the show and didn't like other aspects, and none of it was racially motivated. But, so much of the show's writing *was* racially motivated; it made it difficult for posters to keep their anger and frustration out of their posts. Those few, who like you were just trying to watch a tv show, got caught in the cross fires. Because there really were people spouting racial bias and hatred in the guise of discussing the show. It was blatant and ugly.
All of this seems a moot point; someone in power has changed the show so much, it is hardly recognizable. I'm not sure many people are interested in Sleepy Hollow 3.0. It is a shame and a pity about Nicole, and Orlando and the show in general. But I hope it delivers something enjoyable for the fans that stick by it. I think it was a good, but odd, decision to resurrect Headless, but I don't think it's going to bring the show back around to its earlier potential. And that is really the saddest part, the lost potential, what *could* have been.
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8 years ago
Well, many shows have been spoiled by writers failing to effectively write couple scenes once they put them together. Maybe I'm just still reeling from disasters on Castle and NCIS.
I found it difficult, at first, to get involved in the discussions about race. It just seemed to be something I had no real experience with, but once it became too obvious to ignore, I made my feelings known. But it was hard at first. Zanza was such a bully, and she just didn't listen to anything anyone said. I can understand people being unwilling to confront her. Delorb, I don't think you realize just how daunting it can be, even in anonymity, to say the truth. You, and several others never shied away from it, while most of us took the easy way out and put them on "ignore.".
It was ugly, indeed. It was also eye opening and educational. But there were posters who just wanted to discuss the show. I wonder if those posters that sat on the sidelines just haven't a clear opinion. Maybe that's a cop out to say, but I would rather like to think that the conversation at least opened their minds to the possibility that racism exists, blatantly, on TV, and we shouldn't be complacent.
Sometimes all we get are baby steps. Even when we should be running a sub 4 mile...
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