I know, I actually had like a big big problem at the time of The Treaty (which, ha, I took waaaay too seriously at the time) and I went on a huge rant that was like WHY ARE ALL THESE STORIES THE SAME, WHY IS BEN BEING SUCH A DICK, WHYYY IS NO ONE TAKING THESE RESOLUTIONS INTO THE NEXT EPISODE. Because like. They kept finding this happy medium, like, "Oh we can still joke" "Oh we can talk once a day" but neither of them changed anything about it the next week.
And yeah, that's kind of the funk now. I was really excited for Ben to be campaign manager and I don't always hate the conflict (last week, it was mostly used to comic effect, so Ben could have off-hand sarcastic lines, so it didn't bug me too much). I kind of like the conflict of power (OKAY I LIKE IT TRANSLATED TO KINK FIC MOSTLY) in their relationship, but yeah, its mostly that ad thing that skeeved me because it just seemed so wildly un-Leslie that like, Ben, look at who you're campaigning for.
I think the thing with last season was that it was produced and everything in such a bubble. The season was done filming before the first episode aired. So they had nothing to go on but their own guts and it made everything just a really well crafted, continually moving-forward season. It had the momentum of bringing two people together that was a full arc spanning over every episode. It was just a tight, cohesive season. And this season is a bit more scattered, because both the campaign and the fall-out of their breakup was kind of ignored for a few episodes. And in the end, they were just very quickly not together-together-not together-together. And getting them back already means there's no longer any question marks in their relationship. The campaign can only add like, so much momentum, because idk I know I latch more onto relationships between characters rather than just situation.
Ohhh my god I can talk all day long about tv story things and yeah.
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And yeah, that's kind of the funk now. I was really excited for Ben to be campaign manager and I don't always hate the conflict (last week, it was mostly used to comic effect, so Ben could have off-hand sarcastic lines, so it didn't bug me too much). I kind of like the conflict of power (OKAY I LIKE IT TRANSLATED TO KINK FIC MOSTLY) in their relationship, but yeah, its mostly that ad thing that skeeved me because it just seemed so wildly un-Leslie that like, Ben, look at who you're campaigning for.
I think the thing with last season was that it was produced and everything in such a bubble. The season was done filming before the first episode aired. So they had nothing to go on but their own guts and it made everything just a really well crafted, continually moving-forward season. It had the momentum of bringing two people together that was a full arc spanning over every episode. It was just a tight, cohesive season. And this season is a bit more scattered, because both the campaign and the fall-out of their breakup was kind of ignored for a few episodes. And in the end, they were just very quickly not together-together-not together-together. And getting them back already means there's no longer any question marks in their relationship. The campaign can only add like, so much momentum, because idk I know I latch more onto relationships between characters rather than just situation.
Ohhh my god I can talk all day long about tv story things and yeah.