Comments on: 16: The Date

By: faulkie

faulkie — Fri, 15 May 2009 17:38:39 +0000

[This post has been edited for tone] Megan was wearing a short dress, not a bra and panties. Don’t take it so seriously! This series does appeal to the average LDS audience. This episode ROCKED.

By: Cal

Cal — Thu, 14 May 2009 18:43:53 +0000

This was all set up in Episode 14- the one with the awkward bathroom scene. (Which I loved, by the way. It was the whole “help teach FHE with the nice girl, or go to the Elizabethan Report concert with the bad girl” Megan went and got the tickets with backstage passes only because she heard Jeremiah talking about them with someone. It works.) I think this show has been pretty good with set ups and pay offs, they’ve got us still watching don’t they?

By: Aimee

Aimee — Thu, 14 May 2009 05:49:09 +0000

This episode was hard to watch…do we have to have a scantily clad woman to prove that they are evil…please leave that out in the future. Remember you are trying to appeal to an lds audience let’s keep it clean.
on the other hand I just wanted to say that we really have enjoyed this
series up to this point. You are all doing a great job. Thanks!!!

By: Chocolate Pie

Chocolate Pie — Wed, 13 May 2009 19:05:54 +0000

LOVED the lighting in this one. But pleeease stop circling endlessly during the climactic conversation! AAUUUGGH!! I got sea-sick!

Fun moment when he comes out and I’m going “Waaait, Penny Royale isn’t next to Sammy’s…oh yah, editing and story-telling.”

Anyway, overall this episode was really fun, but do we have to use the 24-cliche of Bluetooth=evil, and ultimate decision of good and evil is money vs. mission….wait that sounds familiar.

There is one legitimate suggestion I would like to give instead of my lame attempts at pithiness: The set-ups and payoffs that aren’t completely central to the plot are often set-up RIGHT before the payoff instead of several episodes before. Example: The whole Elizabethan Report is only mentioned a few minutes before we see them instead of having been at least lightly references episodes before so we get a sense early on that this is a hot band and get the pay-off later (and make the temptation more legitimate too!) Too often I think things are set up a minute or two before they happen which makes the pay-off less powerful and feel more contrived.

But this is still a fun ride. Jeremiah may have been a jerk this episode, but at least he finally made a decisive decision. I don’t think la hoochie is really bad either. Nice last moment with her looking bewildered and running away in her mini-dress (I take it SHE didn’t serve a mission.)