Poor Chris. I suppose we all have episodes that just hit us wrong - I still haven't forgiven LoM for ending the way it did! I like that ending less and less the more I think about it.
With this episode, I totally get where you are coming from. The numerous guest characters receive a lot of time and attention, which takes away from Sam's screentime especially, and it would have been nice to see a bit of the post-Madison emotional progression that got them both to this stage. Also, the very self-conscious post-modern-ness of the inside jokes kinda leave me cold, although I find them more amusing than I expected.
But the episode does work for me in a lot of ways - the characterisation of both brothers is excellent in the fine detail. Such as Sam's keen eye for detail. And I can see how that post-Madison emotional progression would have got them to this stage, so it doesn't bother me too much that I didn't get to see it - certainly no more so than not seeing how Shadow got to Hell House bothers me.
So...not my favourite by any means. But I like it more than Tall Tales ;)
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Date: 2007-04-23 01:48 pm (UTC)With this episode, I totally get where you are coming from. The numerous guest characters receive a lot of time and attention, which takes away from Sam's screentime especially, and it would have been nice to see a bit of the post-Madison emotional progression that got them both to this stage. Also, the very self-conscious post-modern-ness of the inside jokes kinda leave me cold, although I find them more amusing than I expected.
But the episode does work for me in a lot of ways - the characterisation of both brothers is excellent in the fine detail. Such as Sam's keen eye for detail. And I can see how that post-Madison emotional progression would have got them to this stage, so it doesn't bother me too much that I didn't get to see it - certainly no more so than not seeing how Shadow got to Hell House bothers me.
So...not my favourite by any means. But I like it more than Tall Tales ;)