A Family Affair [08.24.07]

[curiousgeorge]

jayhenry said:

Season 2. A new leaf. I'm willing to give them a couple of episodes to see if they can resolve any of the perplexities of this video.

Perplexities are not the word I would have used. I'm not any smarter than Slainte, but this whole video makes absolutely no sense to me. Thank goodness they are not posting writing credits on the LGPedia, I would think that one would have been a career killer.

I don't have the energy to read the phanwanking that must be going on at the mothership, but I can't believe any rational person would not have some major questions about the logic of this offering. This one has taken the writing to a new level of nonsense. Do you think they even read the scripts to one another and say "Does this make any sense to you?"

Baffling.

[hyemew]

Speaking of the zombie chant, the more I think about the phrase "Jonas, gather our hands and sing out!" the more I laugh.
Gather our hands?! Anyone else imagine Jonas crying on the floor like a baby surrounded by severed hands as the HoO members encircle him holding their bloody stubs outstretched in front of them chanting the phrase over and over, as all the while Emma jumps around in the background trying to act out "Star Wars"?

[suze900]

I still say that David Lynch wrote & directed this; the "suburban dystopia" reminds me of the opening of Blue Velvet. Jonas is going to find a severed ear lying in the grass in the next episode.

(I'm posting from my Treo, at JFK, on a long layover. Somebody come have dinner with us!)

[hyemew]

Suze I was there last month! I wanted to avoid crappy food but I ended up eating at the McDonald's at terminal 4. Are you near there? If so you can have the satisfaction of knowing we've been to the same exact place.

[suze900]

We're in Terminal 9. There appears to be a decent restaurant nearby. We'll see. I hate loooong layovers :-(

Back OT: you know, for a grumpy old lady, I've been a real tolerant, forgiving LG fan (I think). But this pushed me, not into Slainte territory, but in the neighborhood. I do hope this is retrievable. It doesn't seem fair to the actors to do this to them. I'm surprised they can keep straight faces.

[marlasinger]

you guys all have it down pat. this is the single worst episode i have seen to date of lg15. i'm dead serious. this is AWFUL. how long did we wait to see his parents? and we got a fucking 7 minute long shitfest. my thoughts as i watch:

Jonas decides to take life by the horns and go find his parents...wait, howd he find the house? oh well.

He finds them - they dont remember him...big surprise...omg what if they call the cops...

They invite him in anyway? ......really?

He keeps the camera rolling the whole time. That's not weird at all.

They are not put off by this. That's not weird at all either. wtf?

His mother doesn't mind him calling her mom even though she doesn't
remember him.

She introduces him to his sister...he has a sister? oh didn't see THAT coming.

THEY PLAY CHARADES. BECAUSE JONAS OBVIOUSLY DOESN'T FEEL THE NEED TO
ASK HIS LONG LOST PARENTS ANY QUESTIONS. SO THEY FUCKING PLAY CHARADES.

Jonas high fives his mother after figuring out Emma's charade to be Star Wars.

Emma hugs Jonas. Aw that was sorta sweet. I wonder if he'll develop a crush on her.

Jonas's mother has friends over. Creepy Carl and Sonia, oh, didn't
see THAT coming either.

Emma is evidently the new girl and Jonas will have to save her. He
sticks around to see his "parents" engage in some stupid fucking HoO
prayer, filming from behind the stairs like a 5 year old spying on
Santa.

THIS SHOW SUCKS BALLS.

[hyemew]

LOL MIEP IS HERE! And your analysis of the episode had me CRACKING up. Amazing!!!!!

I just got a scary thought after reading your guess that maybe Jonas will develop feelings for Emma. Well, remember when we thought Jonas and Bree would turn out to be siblings? What IF it turns out Emma was adopted from the same birth parents Bree came from?! That'd mean they both might have that oh-so-delicious positive blood, and on top of that make Bree Jonas's stepbrother in a way (not exactly, but they would in fact share a sister!) Oh the places this could go.
But knowing this plot in all likelihood it'll just pass with Jonas fighting the order and never talking about meeting his family again, and the questions he never asked which so desprately needed to be asked (for ALL of our sakes) will never be asked. Ah, the Cowboy/Ceremony syndrome of total unfulfillment once again!

[Alissa Brooke]

hyemew said:

Care to give us even one reason why?

I can, but they're pretty shallow.

I suppose the simplist reason is that this one actually gave me some enjoyment without making my blood boil.

[hookedonmonics]

hyemew said:

Gather our hands?! Anyone else imagine Jonas crying on the floor like a baby surrounded by severed hands as the HoO members encircle him holding their bloody stubs outstretched

I actually have the perfect song for this, but it's not loaded on the band's myspace page. It's called "Bloody Stumps", and it's a very beautiful sounding song that includes the following lyrics: "I think you should cut your hands off; wave your bloody stumps around."

[jackwinderberry]

I just started watching this show at the beginning of august, but even I could tell that the jonas' parents storyline was something they should not have just killed off in one episode like this.

"THIS SHOW SUCKS BALLS" - Said marlasinger (miep?)

The plot of this show has gone from somewhat interesting to one of the worst in the history of humankind. I've watched a lot of TV and even listened to lots of radio serials way back when, and this takes the cake.

One of the main problems with the show is that they take every intersesting story arc that could take months, and when they finally decide to address it, they finish it very quickly. There is no buildup. But I notice the main cast have not been kidnapped lately, as seemed to happen with regularity in the middle part of the series. I suppose that will happen again soon.

[spaciegirl]

I'm not really getting why everyone thinks this one in particular is so much worse than the rest of them. Um...hello?!

[Terryfic]

suze900 said:

I still say that David Lynch wrote & directed this; the "suburban dystopia" reminds me of the opening of Blue Velvet. Jonas is going to find a severed ear lying in the grass in the next episode.

Oh man if it turns out the old guy that stole Bree's blood also brutalizes women while huffing gas and screaming "Don't you fucking look at me!" and the resistance is run by an ex-FBI Special Agent who loves a good cherry pie and a "damn fine cup of coffee" then this show will instantly become my favourite again.

spaciegirl said:

I'm not really getting why everyone thinks this one in particular is so much worse than the rest of them. Um...hello?!

I'm not really sure. Aside from being illogical and anticlimatic I thought this was more or less par for the course. Personally, I kind of like the characters acting totally weird and surreal. Sure it isn't what would happen in real life, but the 'ceremony' shows how little of the show is grounded in reality.

[hyemew]

I think it was so much worse because of how truly surreal it was. The past ones were bad in a they're-sort-of-trying (but not really) kind of way... by which I mean I do think they were trying their best to make a good plot and have it all be sensible just too many cooks was screwing up the broth and it was all generally bad.

This episode on the other hand- there's no way in hell they were trying to have any of it make sense- not only was the episode itself senseless but it made absolutely no sense with the past story line as well. An all around horrorfest which could have only been made better with Jonas's parents chasing him through the house screaming 'brains!'

[suze900]

spaciegirl said:

I'm not really getting why everyone thinks this one in particular is so much worse than the rest of them. Um...hello?!

I don't know. Everyone has a breaking point, and this was mine. It took me from the amen corner to the peanut gallery in 7 minutes, without a pause in "meh" territory along the way.

[spaciegirl]

Heeehe..ok. Fair enough.