So, back to GG. Firstly, I want to apologize, I got them
wrong – it is the Palladinos, not
whatever I have written down the last time. Sorry for the gaffe. Now, since we
are back on the GG topic, let us get back to it.
Where does it stand in the term of TV show mechanics? ASP is
a very strong-minded, very driven woman – and it is possible that the titular
heroines are various aspects of her personality…sort of? Never mind.
On one hand, that is good, for the obvious reasons, on the
other, in various interviews and the like ASP came across as a Mrs. Kim kind of
person instead: ‘It’s my way or the highway!’ She does not really care what the
other people think, she does not really compromise, especially when it comes to
her vision, (whether it is GG or anything else), but neither does she try to
convert anyone to her P.O.V., especially if she does not need to. Basically,
she does not play well with others.
And now imagine her, and her husband, working on the GG
revival with Melissa McCarthy and other important names in Hollywood. How will
this work out? Considering that any further
revival of GG is not very likely at the moment, it had not.
However, I did write about this earlier – the actors were
not very enthusiastic about the GG revival – they have their jobs at ‘This is
Us’, or ‘How to get away with Murder’, etc. They do not really need to invest
into GG – and so they do not. ‘Fuller House’ is experiencing the same thing
with the Olsen twins – they do not need to get involved with their old haunts
and coworkers for any reason, and so
they do not. (And their sister is busy working with the rest of the Avengers in
the MCU, yeah).
So, where did it leave the viewers? Disappointed, and still
divided as to whether Rory should be with Logan, or Jess, or whoever else.
Sadly, the Palladinos either chose to ignore the previous, seventh season of
the GG, or pretended to do so; Paul, Rory’s official boyfriend is…what? How Rory’s
treatment of Paul is better/different from Logan’s treatment of Odette? Oh,
Logan is actually in a relationship with Odette and remembers her, unlike what
Rory is going/doing with Paul, (rather than to
Paul, BTW).
Here is the thing. It is possible that Logan was going to be
Rory’s ‘Christopher’, plus there was the entire British & French vs. the
U.S. dynamic when you add Jess. Jess and Rory stand for the U.S.A., especially,
while Anglo-American U.S.A., because they live in New England, as opposed to
Texas or California, for example. Logan and Odette are Europe, Jess and Rory –
U.S.A. For the initial six or seven seasons of GG, this could be very cutting
stuff, but – hello, real life. In real life, the face of the U.S., its’ 45th
president is the Donald Trump, whose latest peccadillo involve ignoring Angela
Merkel’s attempt to shake hands – as a sign of politeness. Trump is not Russia’s
puppet because Putin has his own problems and he never meddled in the U.S.
politics anyhow, this is something Trump’s opposition invented by themselves
and it just makes the situation worse – just ask Robert Reich.
No, really, listen to the man – the way he is describing the
situation in D.C. is chilling, which kind of relates to GG: at the end of S7
Rory went off to be a part of team Obama – and this was never mentioned in the revival;
in fact, another point of contention was that team Palladino largely ignored
the real world and tried to create some sort of a self-contained world instead –
and it’d been noticed before, this world could be quite mean and nasty in a
petty, politically incorrect way. Hello, Mr. President! How is your tower?
Yes, this is not entirely the Palladinos fault – they probably
did not take into account that the Donald would win the election, but still, in
this case, if they assumed that Hillary would win instead, they should’ve ‘updated’
their vision of America…but they didn’t, and the end result was much more
Trump-like than people like to associate with GG – and maybe that was the
intended result; it is unknown for whom did ASP and her husband vote, but her
views are more Republican than Democrat, so that’s that…only no. These days,
people are sore at the Republicans and ASP’s attitude probably does not win her
any favors, not so much among the GGs’ viewers, as among its cast and crew –
most of Hollywood was largely Democratic then and now…
And so, this is it. The GG revival has come and went and has
been largely assimilated by the viewers, the audience, the fans. The fan base
of the GG ‘dom still remains strong. The GG will go on with the times – but any
more revivals’ of the original show do seem to be unlikely.
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