God the gifs of Iris dragging Ryan in Avenue 5 (I still need to see the show).
It makes me think about the power balance shift in Dan and Amy’s relationship. Amy would have ripped him a new one the minute he told her Mike’s boss was in the other room. She should have chucked Lean In at his head instead of at the wall.Â
I was waiting for Amy to tell Dan to go fuck himself and it never happened. Instead she was simply flattered. Just imagine Amy channeling her “I quit” speech rage at Dan telling him he will die empty and alone.Â
And all of that could have been avoided had they attempted to actually write them in-character.Â
Did I mention that I hate M*ndel?? With the fury of a thousand suns.
Mini rant:
I’ve been trying to suppress thoughts about s7 and stay positive, but sometimes I remember the whole pregnancy storyline and the way Amy was treated and it makes me feel sick. So viscerally uncomfortable. And to think that we were supposed to find it funny?
Usually with shows I’m done by now, but for some reason, this show has a vice grip on me and I still can’t let go despite how awful that ending was. I’m trying to even though I still think about it every day.
The show is now in this weird limbo for me. I can separate the two different versions of the show, but not completely. Everything from season 7 bleeds back into the earlier seasons, which makes it so hard to rewatch.
It’s been 8 months, but I’m still pissed. I wonder if everyone is over it by now?
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5x09, Kissing Your Sister - In this episode, Dan actually seems interested when Sophie calls him. And this was supposed to happen before Thanksgiving. Is he throwing it in Amy’s face - unintentionally? Intentionally? (DM said he thought Dan being oblivious was funny. But around season 7, Reid said Dan knows Amy has a “thing” for him, but knows she’s too smart. So which one is it? I know, I know, all of this is extra-textural).Â
Why would Dan be interested when sleeping with Sophie was a decision that was clearly embarrassing for him as we saw in 5x03 and drove Amy away from him?
This is the second flash we get of season 7 Dan/their season 7 dynamic, with him constantly rejecting her. The first one was in 5x08, where he starts to sleep around just because instead of for his career and insults her appearance.Â
I loved the intimacy of them wearing pajamas in a shitty motel, but their dynamic :(
I guess you could also read that as him sleeping around because he knows he lost Amy, and it still tracks until the end of season 6, mainly because they barely have any scenes together and you can use previous characterization, but I’m not sure if that was their intention after seeing season 6 and 7.Â
Then we get the “beefy blonde” comment and him forgetting she has a vagina, which made no sense, because where did that come from? There’s no explanation for the shift in how he treats her from the end of season 5 until season 7.Â
Also, the original writers stopped writing after 5x06 even though they’re credited as executive producers until the end of season 5.
