HOLY S*** TV
May 23, 2008
So apparently, the latest creative ploy in TV is to come up with some kind of insane, shocking, and largely unexpected “stunt” with which to end a TV season. To wit:
–On Gossip Girl, the lead girl (who I do not know the name of because I do not watch the show but my wife does while I read comic books and make fun of her) apparently KILLED SOMEBODY.
–On One Tree Hill (see above regarding my wife and making fun of her), Dan Scott is about to get a heart transplant when a car speeds out of NOWHERE and MOWS HIM DOWN.
–On Law & Order: SVU (which I do watch, thanks for asking), Stabler’s wife and Benson are driving to a doctor’s appointment, it looks like the case is wrapped up about 30 minutes into the episode…and then yet another car speeds out of NOWHERE and SLAMS INTO THEIR CAR, resulting in Olivia basically helping Mrs. Stabler deliver her baby after being CUT OUT OF AN AUTOMOBILE.
So are OMG HOLY SHIT endings* the new “Bobby Ewing in the shower”? Discuss.
*Although what’s odd about most of these is that they aren’t truly “endings”; in fact, in all cases, they come near the end but not AT the end of the episode. So you watch Dan Scott get slammed into and bleed on the pavement, and then the musical montage takes us to an airport, where there’s some bullshit about who’s gonna marry Chad Michael Murray in Vegas.**
**Which, if it were actually Patrick Ewing on the other end of that phone next season, would make for the finest TV moment ever.
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Sarah | May 24, 2008 at 1:11 am
What’s sort of interesting (or maybe not at all interesting) is that it’s all about THAT MOMENT and what happens next or as fall-out is more like an afterthought. Like Gossip Girl Serena didn’t *really* kill someone, but it was important for her to say she did, all dramatic-like. Right? And I’m guessing Dan will be OK and live another day to almost-smother priests with conveniently-placed fluffy pillows. It’s kind of like the end of every chapter in The Da Vinci Code, where they’re like “OMG, ahhhhh, IMPORTANT!” And then in the next chapter, it’s five minutes later and they’re like “So, anyway…”
Did I have a point when I started typing this? I don’t remember. btw, another thing I find fascinating about One Tree Hill is that every episode is like 65 percent montages. It sort of works, somehow.
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Ginna | May 24, 2008 at 7:27 pm
Sarah–Do you watch One Tree Hill????
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Sarah | May 24, 2008 at 8:31 pm
Uh…no, where did you get that idea??
Ok, Ok…YES, TOTALLY. I have to confess, I secretly love all the montages. And also, the dialogue like this:
Dan: Son, I have a bad heart.
Nathan: You’re just realizing that?!
I love how Nathan totally doesn’t realize Dan means, you know, a medical condition. It’s kind of awesome, right?
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Chris | May 26, 2008 at 8:25 pm
It’s the season of the car crash – House MD went over the top, with House and his best friend’s wife on a bus, when it gets t-boned! And then he’s got amnesia – he remembers he saw something wrong with her, just not what it is! Two episodes worth of “Why was she on the bus? Why was House drunk?” and medical stunting to get him to remember, only to end with him in a mild-coma and her dead… only alive, like that episode of Homicide, where they have time to say goodbye, but can’t be saved and OMG, just season-ending grandstanding.
At least Jericho went out on a second American civil war – that was unqiue, it must be said.
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Sarah | July 8, 2008 at 9:01 pm
OK, Ginna and Matt (and any other One Tree Hill fans reading this post), I know you probably haven’t been able to sleep since the OTH finale, what with all the wondering about who Lucas called from the airport! (Or alternately, the wondering about why any of those ladies would want to get with a douchebag like Lucas in the first place.) But look, there are SPOILERY pix out there that seem to provide an ANSWER (don’t click if you don’t want to know!):
http://www.onetreehillblog.com/2008/06/27/new-filming-picturesomg/
Unless they filmed multiple scenarios, but I doubt that very much. You can rest easy now. You’re welcome!