04-14-2021, 04:24 PM
(04-14-2021, 08:37 AM)Mister Obvious Wrote: For them to do this with the show after 11 years...
To kill FRANK, the MAIN character, with a contrived red herring 'virus' that just popped up out of nowhere and was used as an excuse to ass rape the entire world...
What if it comes out in the future that this whole thing was a massive load of absolute bullshit?
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This is the close to 11 years of a story?
Cheap. Disgustingly cheap.
They should have never even acknowledged the CV bullshit on the show, they should have continued on with the Gallagher universe as if CV didn't fucking exist, because people watch TV to ESCAPE, not to be reminded of 'real life'.
The final season of Shameless may as well not even exist.
Everything you said here is searing in its accuracy, though I will say the whole series might as well not exist now, THAT is how fucking retroactively ruinous it is. You can't even really call it exploitive given how fucking pathetic it is. To your multifaceted point, nobody knows what the fuck CV is yet, and to latch onto it in this fashion is pure fucking folly. The showrunners may as well be saying "we could give a FUCK about this show's legacy". Also: we had no real plan. Also: we aren't creative. I felt similarly about the final episodes of LOST and Game of Thrones, though I was far more invested in those shows. Breaking Bad, on the other hand, and True Detective season one--those are both exemplary examples of how to close out a show, particularly BB.
It's not that the idea of being given a death sentence just after surviving an OD is weak in and of itself. I mean... "you're a fighter, you survived. Oh, by the way, you have aids"... would that have been terrible? It can be done in a way that's strong, even darkly humorous, and leaves you asking questions about the main character, and it's at least tangentially related to what he was getting into. I'm pretty sure they were planning on killing him off all along, and they saw CV as an "interesting alternative" and an "opportunity". Huge mistake.
I never really cared about the series as a whole, I just dropped in to see Macy doing his thing on occasion, because nobody does understated like he does--and he makes it look so easy. He is one of the very rare actors that reminds me that this is a fucking artform and a craft. Shitty, shortcut-taking soft writing makes me feel murderous, and WHM deserves--fucking warrants--a greater amount of thought and development to close out the series. He's not my favorite, not by a long stretch, but I appreciate his substantial skill.
Gonna go check out the Interstellar thread on acting; thank you for linking it!
