re: The Newsroom Season 3 (Series Finale Tonight, "What Kind of Day Has it Been?")

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only reservation to his conclusion is that they didn't show a slower transition from moral martyr to corporate mouthpiece.

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Well that was my biggest issue with it. Turn him to shite in one episode and kill him? Crap writing, IMO. I don't get why they would only do a 6 episode season. 8 May have been better here to give more time to resolve things. It's been an extremely rushed season.

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Turn him to shite in one episode and kill him? Crap writing, IMO.

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I can certainly agree the episode was quite rushed on this storyline, I don't have a big problem with how it was handled. Charlie said it himself last episode, he was done fighting. He's been the delusional knight, fighting for "doing the news right" in a world that was never going to let him. He had gotten his arse kicked and was just trying to go with the flow of the new world. Of course it was killing him inside to do it. Sam Waterston did a great job in the episode showing just that. Trying to sell a new way of doing things he didn't believe in against the people he loved still fighting his good fight. His short fuse, going from rage to rage...mad deep down he had given up the fight.

Then he died, just as his old journalism has died.

The execution wasn't great and was too rushed to hit the emotional note his death should have. That I don't deny. More of his inner struggle would have been nice. All things considered though, I think it was handled well for the very short amount of time budgeted to it.

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It's been an extremely rushed season.

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I haven't really felt that way until last night. I mean, they've been burning through plot like a CW show but it hasn't felt too fast within the fast pace of everything about the show. Last night though had too many irons in the fire. We needed zero time with Jim and Maggie. No one cares what happens to them. Don's story with the Princeton chick did a pretty good job (though apparently some reviews have a very different perspective) on the campus rape issue, but there really wasn't time to do it and tell the story of the changes at ACN. Sloan's battle with the nerdy stalker guy was amusing and worked. Will and his dad in prison was also quite well done. Two episodes and they cover all these fronts better. It was way too much for one fifty minute block, especially with so much time wasted on fricking Jim and Maggie.

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Sucks this show is ending.

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agree


watched the past 2 episodes last night


I know it didnt have a huge following, but I will miss the show

from what i understand it was ever only meant to be one season. due to its popularity it got a second and now third. don't know if sorkin doesnt want to be stuck doing it that long or what...

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You should watch the actual video of Kimmel doing it to Gawker posted earlier in this thread. It was epic.

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WOW. I just watched it. How can someone be that fricking naïve?

"Well it hasn't happened in four years!"

And away we go...

Interesting to go back before the first episode.

Qwench.