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Main / Friday Night Lights Forum / General FNL Talk / Boy showing porn flicks and blutantly talking about oral sex will always get you a third season
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| Posted: 19 Jan 2008 20:19 | ||
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I wouldn't necessarily say this was the worst episode FNL has ever had but I would say it was the most uncalled for episode they have had. It started the previous week with them showing that porn clip (for really no reason at all) and now this week blutantly talking about oral sex (if you ever wanted to know rather or not oral sex is considered intercourse be sure to tune into Friday Night Lights). And to end it all with that very outdated storyline about interacial dating (and to make it worse interacial abuse).
You know a couple weeks ago I made a joke about the writers not really caring about what they put on the air (or at least to dumb to know what would work and what wouldn't) but after seeing this episode I possibly think that they may actually be to dumb or simply not care. To start things off if you want to talk about sex in a primetime show simply say the word sex and let the viewers imagination go from there. Going to the degree of talking about oral sex is just childish and simply retarded (out of all the other major station series you have seen how many of them blutantly start talking about oral sex(that should give you an indication of how out of place it is right there)). If you want to have stuff like that on your program move to Europe. And now to uncalled for point #2. FNL this is the 21st century. You can see interacial dating virtually anywhere you go. Granted it is still much more uncommon than people of the same ethnicity dating eachother but still common enough to where you wouldn't look at it and say 'what the heck is that'. And to make what you did even worse you had them abuse eachother because of it (I believe we are no longer living in the 60's and different ethnicities actually can go to the bathroom together these days). Come on FNL. Those are storylines that would probably get you a D- in film school let alone get you good ratings and high praise in the real time television world. I personally think a much better way to put trouble into Smash's and his girlfriends relationship would have been to make it to where she is (or at least where Smash thinks she is) only interested in him because of his potential star power (as that stuff does indeed happen all the time and is a real issue for big time sports athletes). With a third season still undecided I can't believe they would put trash like this into the program. I would think the writers would be working their tails off trying to put quality television on the air that would bring them that 3rd season. Not to see how far they can go before somebody comes in and tells them that these storylines are inappropriate and you need to tone it down. |
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| Posted: 21 Jan 2008 19:48 | ||
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lastcat, I have to agree with you (mostly) here - this was one of the worst FNL episodes, if not THE worst. Tired old recycled storylines that seemed to be cribbed from Degrassi Jr. High...pedestrian commentary on parenting, race relations, sex, high school crushes and unrequited love.
On the interracial dating issue. What kind of parents arrange a dinner with their kid's boyfriend's family only to humiliate them? And even if Smash's mom did agree that the relationship was a bad one, how could she not have been insulted by these rich white folks? When I was in HS, I had a friend who was in an interracial relationship. She took a lot of heat for it and eventually broke up with her boyfriend because she couldn't handle the scrutiny. But that was in the late 1980s and, I agree...it's a much less important issue now than it was before. I like what the writers were trying to do, I just think they went about it all wrong. They should have shown the peer pressure aspect before the girl's racist parents came into the picture. The Riggins/Lyla nonsense belongs on the Disney Channel. Enough said. The Matt/Carlotta thing - we all knew it was going to happen and I thought it was sort of touching, but what the writers do with Matt now is going to determine the success of this subplot. Buddy and Santiago. Reasonably well done, but since Santiago doesn't really talk and has had almost no character development, we still don't know why he put his life on the line to avoid disappointing Buddy. I love this show, but this episode was sub-par. Let's hope the last few "in the can" eps are better and build momentum for a third season. So far, I can't see FNL getting renewed. Not just because the ratings are crap, but because fans like me aren't going to watch forever if the stories are this unbelievable and downright formulaic. |
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