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timepiececlockI watched The West Wing tonight for the first time in months.
And all I could think throughout the whole thing (besides random "I still love Josh best!" thoughts) was: WHAT THE FUCK IS UP WITH THE TRANSITIONS, DUDE?
Like, it seemed nearly every other camera cut was deliberately designed to frell with my head. Intercutting multiple conversations _line_ *by* _line_. Having one person walk in a door and a different person walk out another. Very strangley done close ups and cut-aways.
Is every episode like this now 'a days? I've never had to work so hard to follow characters and action visually since.... since I last watched Fooly Cooly. And most of my flist doesn't know what Fooly Cooly is and thus the comparison means nothing, but... I can tell you it's damn confusing visually and hard to track. I need some of those pasted-on glasses Sawyer got in Lost.
And whoever did the camera direction for this episode needs to have someone sit him or her down for a long talk.
And all I could think throughout the whole thing (besides random "I still love Josh best!" thoughts) was: WHAT THE FUCK IS UP WITH THE TRANSITIONS, DUDE?
Like, it seemed nearly every other camera cut was deliberately designed to frell with my head. Intercutting multiple conversations _line_ *by* _line_. Having one person walk in a door and a different person walk out another. Very strangley done close ups and cut-aways.
Is every episode like this now 'a days? I've never had to work so hard to follow characters and action visually since.... since I last watched Fooly Cooly. And most of my flist doesn't know what Fooly Cooly is and thus the comparison means nothing, but... I can tell you it's damn confusing visually and hard to track. I need some of those pasted-on glasses Sawyer got in Lost.
And whoever did the camera direction for this episode needs to have someone sit him or her down for a long talk.
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Date: 2005-03-31 03:25 pm (UTC)Yes. That's been something that's unsettled me for most of the season -- the rythmn feels "wrong" somehow, something that's been reinforced by rewatching repeats of the earlier seasons on Bravo.
Only one more episode to go in the season and that's probably it for me. I've been irritated and disappointed in episodes this year, but the ending of last night pissed me off if CJ did what they implied CJ had done. I'm not saying whether or not its a good show; it's just that its no longer TWW that I enjoyed.