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re: The Newsroom Season 3 (Series Finale Tonight, "What Kind of Day Has it Been?")
Posted on 12/8/14 at 2:08 am to FalseProphet
Posted on 12/8/14 at 2:08 am to FalseProphet
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You should watch the actual video of Kimmel doing it to Gawker posted earlier in this thread. It was epic.
but olivia munn isnt in that one...
Posted on 12/8/14 at 3:26 am to BayouBengals337
I am really impressed with how strong this season has been.
Less romantic dialogue. Less politics. More focus on issues in journalism.
Less romantic dialogue. Less politics. More focus on issues in journalism.
Posted on 12/8/14 at 7:10 am to TotesMcGotes
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only reservation to his conclusion is that they didn't show a slower transition from moral martyr to corporate mouthpiece.
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.
Posted on 12/8/14 at 8:05 am to TotesMcGotes
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My only reservation to his conclusion is that they didn't show a slower transition from moral martyr to corporate mouthpiece. He seemed to flip overnight.
I hope we get more of explanation for this in the finale. I think it was Charlie trying to keep people from losing theirjobs. The new guy was ready to clean house if things didn't go his way. I don't see Charlie selling out just to save his own arse.
Posted on 12/8/14 at 8:21 am to quail man
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Turn him to shite in one episode and kill him? Crap writing, IMO.
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.
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.
Posted on 12/8/14 at 5:22 pm to bamafan425
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Sucks this show is ending.
agree
watched the past 2 episodes last night
I know it didnt have a huge following, but I will miss the show
Posted on 12/8/14 at 5:23 pm to Croacka
If we would have gotten this show now, the way it is now, it probably would have been around longer.
Posted on 12/8/14 at 5:35 pm to Tactical1
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...
Posted on 12/8/14 at 6:40 pm to BayouBengals337
What's the point of going in with a plan of just having a one-season series? Sounds like a terrible plan
Posted on 12/8/14 at 9:51 pm to Tactical1
I've really enjoyed this season. It'll be a show I rewatch a few times but always end up getting mad about it cut short.
Posted on 12/8/14 at 10:07 pm to FalseProphet
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You should watch the actual video of Kimmel doing it to Gawker posted earlier in this thread. It was epic.
WOW. I just watched it. How can someone be that fricking naïve?
Posted on 12/8/14 at 10:19 pm to Mr. Fantasy
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nteresting bit from the episode...that piece on ACNgage was based on an actual interview by Kimmel on CNN
LINK
DAMN
Posted on 12/8/14 at 11:15 pm to unbeWEAVEable
"Well it hasn't happened in four years!"
Posted on 12/14/14 at 7:05 pm to bamafan425
Bumping for the series finale tonight.
Posted on 12/14/14 at 8:03 pm to FalseProphet
Just started. Gonna be three minutes behind. Still pissed about Charlie. They better have a damn good reason for that shite.
Posted on 12/14/14 at 8:11 pm to quail man
Interesting to go back before the first episode.
Posted on 12/14/14 at 8:15 pm to quail man
That was a nice flashback.
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