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Wow. Talk about your fair share of suckage.
I was as dismayed as many of you over this episode. The gf actually said that she didn’t even care if it came back next season after this! Do you see what we have been reduced to. Treason in my own home!!
So, totally immature fact… I didn’t even watch the scene. I think you know which scene I am talking about. I couldn’t do it. As soon as Lindsay uttered the ridiculous, “I wanted this to be special,” I turned my head. I, literally, couldn’t watch it. I am now referring to it as the most timely fade to black in all of history.
First things first, and I’m always going to go there first when it’s this bad, could the writing have sucked any harder? Seriously could it? I think not. The only thing that did come out of this episode is that there were small moments for all ’shippers. Except for poor Claire. She’s just never going to get any from her club cohorts, is she? So unfair. I mean, Claire’s a hottie.
Clearly, the whole thing about making this a more Lindsay-centric, non-club show was right on the money. Why do they even have the other characters if that’s how much they are going to use them?
And it doesn’t help that this week’s ep and last week’s ep seem like two entirely different shows.
Now, to the big event.
If you are going to shoot a main character, you must have time to dedicate to it. You can’t just say, “Bang.” “She’s okay.” “I don’t remember anything.” And, yes, both Lindsay and Claire walking out of that room was not only out-of-character, but just plain shitty. They wouldn’t have. Especially Claire. This is the kind of support Cindy gets from her friends after being shot? I’m thinking maybe Cindy should have rushed another sorority.
And it irked me when she said parents as well. Continuity people, it’s not just a ten-letter word that starts with a ‘c’. Hmm. Though it is that too. Indeed, Cindy’s father is dead. She made a big deal about it. (And even if her mom remarried, my mom remarried when I was eight and never once in my life did I refer to her and my stepfather as my parents.) We’ll give them the benefit of the doubt and say that all of the pain medication made her forgetful.
I did like Lindsay’s rush down the steps to Cindy, the touching, et al, but when she left her at the hospital that first time to go to the police station, I knew that we were going to totally get the shaft. Of course, I didn’t know just how shafted we would get.
I’m just going to say it. Lindsay Boxer… you’re kind of a bitch.
May 7th, 2008 at 7:31 am
Can we say we need your fic more than ever now? This was crap - if my best friends took off to (read homework, have sex with a nobody, etc.) after I was shot, whether I was ok or not - not so much on the best friend-age. I WAS SHOT, PEOPLE!!!! Ummm…what happened to the rehash the ep at the diner - even at the hospital, as a CLUB? What happened to not changing the focus of the show?
And I agree with your gf - I think I’ll just watch the original eps.
Mourning our loss.
May 7th, 2008 at 8:19 am
Sorry I forgot. WT FUCK was that show! Cindy gets fake-kidnapped by Jamie Galvan and they all freak out? She gets shot for real, in the chest, and what? It’s like, Meh she’ll be fine.
So yeah, Jill stayed, but she had to be asked, c’mon. And Lindsay your friend who you’ve known for almost a year and have grown close to (as witnessed in the last episode)just got shot! Would it kill you to sit down 10 minutes? Right you have to go have sex with Muffin Man who you’ve known for 1 hour and who’s leaving in a week. Did you all know he was leaving in a week? I’m not sure it was made clear. Geez!
As much as it breaks my heart to say it, I think I have to agree with your girlfriend.
One last thing, 10 bucks they don’t mention the shooting ever again.
May 7th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
well i have to agree but the guy is a not a huge twist if u read the books. but i dont like him one bit i had to wait till today to watch it and i was like wtf i was all excited for that!? Hey i’ll take the 10 $ bet she will be fine next week and to make it even better when the guy leaves (lets hope he does) they will talk nonstop about him sayin poor linds she was just getting her life back.
the show is called womens murder CLUB right? is there an i in club? no there making it all linds and not doing much with the others your right! sigh maybe our worst fear is comeing ture that these are the last eps and they dont want to spend time on them…. sad
May 7th, 2008 at 8:51 pm
Wow! I was really pissed this morning. That’s what happens when you post without having had coffee. I’m not ready to forgive anybody, yet. I’m looking at you Boxer. I am however ready to amend my earlier comment with -I still want a second season- ’cause that’s how much of a sucker I am.
May 8th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
Uhm, I’m at loss of words. I’ll point out facts.
There are only 6 scenes (if I’ve couted right) with Cindy and Lindsay, including the one where Lindsay and the others watch her from behind the window. Basically Martha’s character is more important than Cindy’s in this episode. And Cindy gets freaking shot in the chest, for God’s sake!!! One would think that that would put her on top of her friends’ importance list…
But I’ll focus on one thing, for this episode. First the “CINDY!” Lindsay screams in her damn sexy voice. Well, more than the Cindy (could have been AT LEAST a bit more desperate, I think), I’m thinking about the damn sexy voice…
Wait, did Linds actually call Cindy “honey” or did I make it up? ’cause I liked that part too if it existed…
May 8th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
The scene with the boytoy didn’t bother me. There is a reason they call it SUBtext. Besides, nice shot of Angie’s back with a black bra.
However, leaving the hospital… totally unforgivable. And having to beg Jill, who Cindy is the least close to, to stay with her until her mom shows up was equally distasteful. I’m willing to forgive the continuity gaffe, I used to watch Xena this one was NOT that bad.
So Cindy has now been relegated to Jimmy Olsen status? Blech!
May 8th, 2008 at 5:37 pm
No, I don’t read the books, but I do know that Boxer notoriously beds any penis-wielding person that she comes across in the books, so it wasn’t a shock. But these aren’t the books. More in a post later about that.
Also, yes, I know that it is subtext and I appreciate it for what it is. I do think that I would have been slightly more forgiving of the main text if they hadn’t dropped an A-bomb on the subtext in the same episode. It was the leaving at the hospital that was the carnal sin. I think we are all agreed about that.
May 8th, 2008 at 8:05 pm
I’ve only read the first three and Lindsay seems to hook up with an out of town guy (read: temporary) each time. But at one point she really does say that Cindy is pretty and dresses well.
But, aside from that, does anyone know if the rumour that ABC announced that WMC is not renewed for next year is true?
I know I said I didn’t want it if it was like the last ep., but I lied, really! I want it back, please…
May 10th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
I had given up pretty much on WMC until I found Riley’s stories about two weeks ago, so I started watching the last episodes to see the characters I liked so much in her stories. In the “truth will sometimes set you free” episode, I just watch up to where everyone is clustered around Cindy at the bottom of the steps and try to imagine WWRW (What Would Riley Write). How she would yank Lindsay away from the muffin man, how everyone’s priorities and outlooks would change, and things would get warm and emotionally thrilling.
I listened to the scene on the steps on abc.com, where the sound is better than my tv, and it does sound exactly like Lindsay says “honey”. But my favorite sound is, and I think it’s Lindsay, but it’s oddly sound mixed, when she’s running down the stairs she (or somebody) says nonononono, right before she yells”Cindy”. The “Cindy” comes over the top of it, but I think the nonono is Lindsay, too, just bad sound mixing.
May 11th, 2008 at 9:21 pm
The scene around Cindy on the courthouse steps was pretty good, especially in comparison to the rest of the ep.
And I totally love WWRW. Speaking of what Riley would write though, see the post on the subject, title inspired by you, and you alone, Arlene.