So much to discuss, so little time :)

[ladyofavalon77]

Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (Episode 1.1 "Pilot").  Well, I've been dying to make a post since yesterday. So many things happening. I think I'll start first with the TV shows. Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip debuted last night and I was SO excited to hear some snappy Sorkin dialogue...except it wasn't what I expected. Sure I knew there were hints of a slam against Christian conservatives and I heard the rumors about the lesbian playing a Christian on the show but I thought "it couldn't be that bad". Boy was I wrong. The speech in the beginning about TV censoring too much wasn't THAT bad but Matthew Perry's blowup at his ex-girlfriend because she decided to showcase her CD on the 700 Club was uncalled for, ESPECIALLY the Klu Klux Klan reference. Now I know you're going to say that I should expect it because he's an outright liberal but I thought he would show some restraint because the first episode of West Wing attacked the Christian Right but wasn't nearly as bad as this episode...at least it didn't hit me as bad as this one. Therefore, I won't be adding this show to my list of favorites to watch. The dialogue just wasn't the same as West Wing either. I think he's losing his edge. On a different note, I LOVED Amanda Peet and have heard so many people say she was terrible. I just don't understand it...she played a smart, sexy, perfect female businesswoman with saavy and guts. She definitely gets my vote :)

Now the next thing is the absolutely, WONDEFUL movie called The Constant Gardner. I heard it was good from the reviews and the nominations at the Academy Awards but boy did I not know it was THIS good. Lately I'm looking for complex romantic relationships and this one fit the bill perfectly. Both actors know how to show the many layers of a character and it came out best with this movie. Ralph Fiennes played a boring, endearing, by the book diplomat named Justin Quayle who loves to garden while Rachel Weisz plays the liberal, fiery radical wife named Tessa Quayle who is out to right all the world's wrongs. You've never met two people with such opposite personalities...and yet they have the most amazing chemistry. She challenges and teases him while he just smiles and loves every minute of it. This type of relationship reminds me of Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy in Pride and Predjudice as well as C.S. Lewis and Joy Gresham in Shadowlands (my two favorite couples of all time). Conflict is the spice of life and without someone to point out our flaws we will never grow.

And that's enough of real life :) I leave you with a poem on love dedicated to my CURRENT favorite complex couple: Charles and Martha Logan. As well as another screenshot *wink*

 

Shakespeare Sonnet 116

Let me not to the marriage of true minds

Admit impediments. Love is not love

Which alters when it alteration finds,

Or bends with the remover to remove:

O no! it is an ever-fixed mark

That looks on tempests and is never shaken;

It is the star to every wandering bark,

Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks

Within his bending sickle's compass come:

Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,

But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

If this be error and upon me proved,

I never writ, nor no man ever loved.



William Shakespeare

(1564 - 1616)



Don't give me that excuse...i've heard it a thousand times...