tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post3551962217346627749..comments2024-03-28T18:01:28.997-04:00Comments on What's Alan Watching?: Rescue Me: So maybe that isn't it for me...Alan Sepinwallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03388147774725646742noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-33059166557216327952007-09-06T13:13:00.000-04:002007-09-06T13:13:00.000-04:00OH NO! I've been banned, again, from Television Wi...OH NO! I've been banned, again, from Television Without Pity because Tolan and Leery are misogynists.<BR/><BR/>You'd THINK that things would have changed over at TWoP after BRAVO took over.<BR/><BR/>Guess not, the same wankers are in charge.<BR/><BR/>The good part is that now I can write to the sponsors at BRAVO and let them know what I think of their despotic wanker moderators.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-79607518030417068762007-08-03T16:24:00.000-04:002007-08-03T16:24:00.000-04:00Alan, we've now had 'rough sex' (aka rape), 'rough...Alan, we've now had 'rough sex' (aka rape), 'rough religion' (Leary calling the Pope a gangster), and now 'rough parenting' (a completely unbelievable scene in which the family man Gavin hangs his baby over the water).<BR/><BR/>Well, 'rough' is the excuse (or some other doubletalking) Leary and Tolan will use on the audience to explain this assholery writing away.<BR/><BR/>I can't wait to hear from the erudite Mr. Tolan. He did such a GOOD job with the rape episode. <BR/><BR/>Not.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-59303041988458754392007-08-03T15:56:00.000-04:002007-08-03T15:56:00.000-04:00Wow. This show is still on?Shoot. I stopped watchi...Wow. This show is still on?<BR/><BR/>Shoot. I stopped watching when I realized Sheila was still alive and read that the Chief capped himself.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-61967027753958895112007-08-03T13:58:00.000-04:002007-08-03T13:58:00.000-04:00This was definitely the best episode of the season...This was definitely the best episode of the season yet, with shades of the "old" Rescue Me.<BR/><BR/>What is Tommy really thinking? Perhaps his cousin's retort about "God saving the children from a better fate" got to him? I thought his talk with his cousin was pretty good...perhaps he saw how his daughter turned out (just wanting money), his sister, his family (sleeping with his cousin's widow, his brother sleeping with...you know the rest...)...is there such a breaking point where you want to kill your child just to make him not suffer anymore? I don't think so...<BR/><BR/>I do hope this is the show's last season. What else could they possibly do now?SJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01245472084190224186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-77852896925240547602007-08-03T10:02:00.000-04:002007-08-03T10:02:00.000-04:00I'm with you. Tommy considering drowning the kid ...I'm with you. Tommy considering drowning the kid is completely out of left field. Janet's been so deep into her post partum depression all season that I could see her considering it, but nothing we've seen from Tommy leads up to this.Chiphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01165931322155739992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-33553410221978837032007-08-03T00:28:00.000-04:002007-08-03T00:28:00.000-04:00This episode was okay. Better than those that cam...This episode was okay. Better than those that came before it this season, far from the first season. There is too much ridiculousness (the Tommy stalker using Sheila to get close to Tommy, Lou dating the nun, et cetera). What the writers appear to be doing is just trying to one up themselves with more and more tragedy, but there is no long term consequence for the tragedy. We didn't hear anything about Jerry this episode, and there has been no meaningful change as a result of his demise. We got a throwaway reference to Tommy's son this episode, but otherwise, no meaningful long term effect. Blah, blah, blah. Where is the show I grew to like so much a few years ago? This show has lost its gravitats.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-3417084053537737522007-08-02T22:36:00.000-04:002007-08-02T22:36:00.000-04:00Leave it to tommy gavin to degrade into a one-note...Leave it to tommy gavin to degrade into a one-note, static, pedestrian husk of what his character was truly about: the deep conflict of being a man's man with a wonderfully real and ironic connection to family and kids. now he is just lost. woefully so to the point where i don't recognize dennis leary's character anymore. it seems the writers gather all their post-it notes from their own therapy sessions and write the scripts from them without a common thread. <BR/><BR/>and i've got to say, if i see one more slow-motion montage with alt-rock music distracting me from the too few fire fighting scenes, i will throw my tommy gavin belt buckle from my own shine at my plasma. <BR/><BR/>rescue me has one more episode to redeem itself before the once-mind-blowing, discuss-around-the-office-water-cooler show loses me to another banal reality show like flipping out.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-32311819416269974612007-08-02T15:32:00.000-04:002007-08-02T15:32:00.000-04:00Stacie, I'm almost positive it's Tommy himself, po...Stacie, I'm almost positive it's Tommy himself, possibly with Leary's voice distorted just a bit to sound deeper.Alan Sepinwallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03388147774725646742noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-23618103703234822212007-08-02T15:24:00.000-04:002007-08-02T15:24:00.000-04:00Intense episode! The baby-fire scene was gripping...Intense episode! The baby-fire scene was gripping. I went to some emergency response training once where we were told that child deaths are the hardest part of firefighting and EMS work. This show captured it perfectly, and like you, I appreciated the way all the other scenes were connected to it. Re: the end - I kept thinking the baby-dangling scene was going to end abruptly as a dream sequence, which this show frequently uses. (By the way, the drama of the scene was ruined by the fact that it was reminiscent of Michael Jackson with one of his babies...) I loved this episode, it reminded me of the first season, where the humor was always a brief respite from the intensity. I do have a question, though - who is the "ghost" that Tommy keeps seeing now? (In the hallway at the fire house this time.) It's not his brother, and I don't think it's his cousin.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-35262499386530916982007-08-02T15:22:00.000-04:002007-08-02T15:22:00.000-04:00Funny, this episode had the exact opposite effect ...Funny, this episode had the exact opposite effect on me. I've been down on the show all season and this is the episode that really made me think I might totally be done with it.<BR/><BR/>The baby fire was tragic, but I actually Tivo'd through it as I was watching. I LOATHE musical montages. And ones with slow-mo? Forget it. <BR/><BR/>And even if the show was back on track tonally, it's storytelling is still a mess. The storyline with Sheila's boyfriend being obsessed with Tommy is ridiculous (I guess it wasn't enough that every woman on the show be inexplicably in love with Tommy, now the men have to be too); the Susan Sarandon storyline has never made any sense whatsoever (who just hands their kid over to someone else like that--oh wait, they expect us to believe Tommy will do that with his kid); the Lou/Nun storyline is one note and the Nun is way too hot to have ever gone out with him; Mike doesn't seem to care that his mother's house burned down and there's no explanation for why his parents were gay and married to each other; Janet is still insufferable and has no storyline; and now we're supposed to be shocked because Tommy might throw the baby in the river even though it's obvious that didn't happen.<BR/><BR/>The big problem is that after all of the above, even something gut wrenching like the baby fire only elicits a shrug from me anymore since I don't care about or for any of the characters anymore.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com