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Main / Friday Night Lights Forum / General FNL Talk / For all you guys tired of seeing all the FNL bashing on this board... relax
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| Posted: 26 Jan 2008 22:37 | ||
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there will more than likely only be two more weeks of bashing left. Last nights episode only garnered a 3.5/6 on the ratings scale. Well behind re-runs of other shows.
As far as the episode went not a whole lot to say about it. It was alot better than the previous two weeks but that's only because those eppy's were really really bad. All I can say is that they need to straighten out the timing a bit better on the Riggins/Lyla storyline. Riggins had more important things to think about at the time then telling some teenage girl how he felt about her (unless he was somehow trying to con Lyla into paying the money all along (which she ended up doing which gave FNL an easy way out of another piss poor storyline( but I don't think that was what was intended though)). PRguy it's been fun disecting the episodes with you this season. Lol, it looks like we have driven off most everybody else. |
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| Posted: 28 Jan 2008 19:53 | ||
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The feeling is mutual, LC3 - I just wish we had the opportunity to say nicer things about the show. The sad thing is, I think NBC would have had better ratings success had they continued down the path of artistic, documentary-style drama rather than straying so far into saccharine teen soap territory. The Riggins/Lyla storyline is a perfect example of that, as is the unlikely Landry/Tyra love triangle.
I understand certain people watch the show to see how these romantic relationships develop, but my problem with the writing is how unbelievable and out of character the relationships become. I mean, Riggins is a marked man, yet he takes a break from pounding beers and white-knuckling his baseball bat to bring FLOWERS to Lyla at church. The ensuing scene looked much more "Days of Our Lives" than "Friday Night Lights." The same goes for the volleyball story. Yes, it's great that Tyra is succeeding and learning how to believe in herself. But do we need a 10-minute volleyball montage to reinforce that? This whole subplot was very 90210. Overall, I still love the show because I know how great it can be. There are excellent possibilities still alive for season two - Street's new career, Smash's suspension, Saracen learning how to mend a broken heart, Julie learning how to do ANYTHING besides pout and smile (bums me out they don't give Aimee Teegarden more to do - she is so beautiful). But I agree with you, I think it's all over for FNL after the last episodes of season two. But hey, we've always got high-class drama like "Jennifer Love Hewitt Talks to Dead People" and scintillating reality shows like "Naked Celebrity Kickboxing On Ice." |
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| Posted: 31 Jan 2008 03:12 | ||
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Lol, I just fastforwareded through the volleyball scenes during last episode.
You know I wonder if the storylines for season 2 were just a case of 'bad writing' or a scenario where they looked at what the main fanbase was (teenage/early twentiesh and largely female) and so they wrote to apease that group. One difference though(that if you look closely enough between the two seasons) is that season 1 was just an expanded script off of the movie/book. Basically season 1's main plot points happened in the book and in the movie. However in season 2 they were totally on their own (they didn't have a rough draft already in place to help them out). Another obvious flaw is that they did not set season 2 up well at all. You can sort of forgive them for this because at the time the season 1 finalie was in place they weren't sure there was going to be a season 2 yet and they had to create a finalie that could make the series complete. But the way season 2 has gone you can practically say it is highly doubtful that a single aspect of season 2 was in the writers minds at the time season 1 ended. There are ways however that you can make the series be complete if it ends and still have something to work with if it continues. And the writers simply did not do a very good job of this IMO. As it is FNL would have been better off had it been canceled after season 1 than had it continued on with a season 2. And the next time the FNL writers decide to do a series they need to create a 3-5 year plan for the show before its inception. And not just a 1 year plan like they seemed to do with Friday Night Lights. |
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