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Mother#*(@#*ing bad writing
Feb. 10th, 2007 01:51 amWell, NOW I remember why I hated the last season of "Roseanne" (except for the last 10 minutes of the last episode). Family wins big lottery, Dan and Roseanne go their separate ways for a couple of months while he takes his mother to a mental institution and she and the family go to New York, and when he comes back, it turns out he's in love with some young nurse taking care of his mother at the institution.
WHAT THE BLAZING FUCK.
This whole series for the eight (is that right?) years up until now has been about how this couple managed to stay together through hard times and struggles and kids and all types of problems, and one of the subplots was about how Dan's father was a chronic philanderer and abandoned his mother and all the issues Dan grew up with as a result. And then in the last season they tossed in this *crappy* blatant attempt at a ratings boost by basically turning everything these two were on its head. (And then they "saved" them in time for the finale. Oooh, that makes everything better.)
Another example of the poorly-executed love triangle as a desperate ratings grab. The very end of the last episode, ( Yeah, it's 10 years old, but some people still don't know it )
So, for anyone who thought this particular type of plot contrivance was a new bete noire for me - nah. As Mort Rainey would say, "That's just bad writing."
WHAT THE BLAZING FUCK.
This whole series for the eight (is that right?) years up until now has been about how this couple managed to stay together through hard times and struggles and kids and all types of problems, and one of the subplots was about how Dan's father was a chronic philanderer and abandoned his mother and all the issues Dan grew up with as a result. And then in the last season they tossed in this *crappy* blatant attempt at a ratings boost by basically turning everything these two were on its head. (And then they "saved" them in time for the finale. Oooh, that makes everything better.)
Another example of the poorly-executed love triangle as a desperate ratings grab. The very end of the last episode, ( Yeah, it's 10 years old, but some people still don't know it )
So, for anyone who thought this particular type of plot contrivance was a new bete noire for me - nah. As Mort Rainey would say, "That's just bad writing."
