Post by lambertoise on Mar 12, 2004 6:26:11 GMT -5
Three days later is most of the time, in tv land, very late. But since we have 6 long weeks of waiting for new materiel, I decided to post my tardy comments anyway.
Again, a very different TG, both sad and funny. It amazes me to see how DH succeeds to surprise me so often, with the twists and the turnarounds. They are, most of the time, plausible. I’m just a little uncomfortable with the serious health problems accumulation.
I had a good laugh ;D ;D ;D with the Big Boys sharing little twin beds and pillow talk. I just LOVED the way these + 100 000$ a year lawyers all look so ill at ease expressing their feelings! Who decided to hold that nightmarish week end? Burton didn’t seem so enthusiast neither was Nick. So whose idea was it? BTW, did anyone notice how big the firm is, even after Burton said that he would keep it small (The dead, season 2)?
Nick had also a feeling week end, more powerful and more productive than the one he missed. His interaction with Alvin touched many cords in his heart (and in mine), a heart we now know is much bigger that what we could have thought in the beginning. Everything was a sign of an establishing friendship between the two of them, including the grimace he made when Alvin yelled to Erik Estrada! The boy ashamed of his elder…!
But there were a lot of other emotions that Nick experienced, with or without words, throughout this bachelor trip: he was moved by Alvin’s request to be his best man, sad and concerned with the ALS news, amused by Alvin’s obvious joy in the sea then, in a second, chagrined by the thought of the awful fate waiting for that joyful man; we also saw Nick being totally there for and with Alvin, on the beach, after he confessed suicidal thoughts. He was disappointed with the outcome of the meeting between Alvin and his son and generous enough to set up another one. For a guy who doesn’t open up much, he lets a lot to touch him! So, I was happy to see him at the door of his love’s house, right after arriving in Pittsburgh, where, fortunately, he received a well-deserved warm welcome. The perfect guy, isn’t he? After the few very dark episodes, it could have been unbelievable, but it made sense. And what great acting!
Pregnant Lulu is not only beautiful - Alvin is right on this point- but also rounder in every way. The story with the young girl who’s been in prostitution was partly sweet because of her kind attitude.
What about Burton? Who could scold him enough for being so blind and deaf? In the feelings department, he would get an F, for failed!
Rosenberg’s direction was interesting and very different than what Simon Baker did last year. But in both cases, the episode they directed involved a lot of screen time for their character in the same time. Is it a kind of challenge or what? Anyway, the result is excellent. My only reserves about this episode are that the glimpses of tenderness between Nick and Lulu were only …glimpses! And now, I’ll be deprived for the next 6 weeks? Well, it hurts!
Now that we had so much pleasure, CBS is punishing us. The morons are obviously still in charge! They should try the F & F retreat… It could bring them a better understanding of their viewers…<br>
Again, a very different TG, both sad and funny. It amazes me to see how DH succeeds to surprise me so often, with the twists and the turnarounds. They are, most of the time, plausible. I’m just a little uncomfortable with the serious health problems accumulation.
I had a good laugh ;D ;D ;D with the Big Boys sharing little twin beds and pillow talk. I just LOVED the way these + 100 000$ a year lawyers all look so ill at ease expressing their feelings! Who decided to hold that nightmarish week end? Burton didn’t seem so enthusiast neither was Nick. So whose idea was it? BTW, did anyone notice how big the firm is, even after Burton said that he would keep it small (The dead, season 2)?
Nick had also a feeling week end, more powerful and more productive than the one he missed. His interaction with Alvin touched many cords in his heart (and in mine), a heart we now know is much bigger that what we could have thought in the beginning. Everything was a sign of an establishing friendship between the two of them, including the grimace he made when Alvin yelled to Erik Estrada! The boy ashamed of his elder…!
But there were a lot of other emotions that Nick experienced, with or without words, throughout this bachelor trip: he was moved by Alvin’s request to be his best man, sad and concerned with the ALS news, amused by Alvin’s obvious joy in the sea then, in a second, chagrined by the thought of the awful fate waiting for that joyful man; we also saw Nick being totally there for and with Alvin, on the beach, after he confessed suicidal thoughts. He was disappointed with the outcome of the meeting between Alvin and his son and generous enough to set up another one. For a guy who doesn’t open up much, he lets a lot to touch him! So, I was happy to see him at the door of his love’s house, right after arriving in Pittsburgh, where, fortunately, he received a well-deserved warm welcome. The perfect guy, isn’t he? After the few very dark episodes, it could have been unbelievable, but it made sense. And what great acting!
Pregnant Lulu is not only beautiful - Alvin is right on this point- but also rounder in every way. The story with the young girl who’s been in prostitution was partly sweet because of her kind attitude.
What about Burton? Who could scold him enough for being so blind and deaf? In the feelings department, he would get an F, for failed!
Rosenberg’s direction was interesting and very different than what Simon Baker did last year. But in both cases, the episode they directed involved a lot of screen time for their character in the same time. Is it a kind of challenge or what? Anyway, the result is excellent. My only reserves about this episode are that the glimpses of tenderness between Nick and Lulu were only …glimpses! And now, I’ll be deprived for the next 6 weeks? Well, it hurts!
Now that we had so much pleasure, CBS is punishing us. The morons are obviously still in charge! They should try the F & F retreat… It could bring them a better understanding of their viewers…<br>
... and that I had discovered CBS through The Guardian (almost true). 
I´m sure there were "things" happening behind that door later, as I´m sure it was not only that kiss in the car. But I´m afraid there is not a complain desk for fans!)