I’ve seen season 5-1/2 and season 6 online, but apparently this started tonight. DVR has it recording now, but I wanted to drop a note for anyone still with the show, since I saw zero promotion for this. I would have thought during The Shield it would have been all over the place, but I don’t remember a single commercial.
Guess we’ll see if this season is an improvement.
I’ve seen a ton of commercials for this but haven’t been excited about this show in several seasons. That said, my DVR is also taping right now so there’s that.
I really could have done without the cancer subplot.
The cancer subplot was really lame, unless it turns into something more. We know they won’t kill Christian, but the next episode commercial hinted at it possibly leading to a bigger storyline.
The opening scene was really, really well done though. It was incredibly tense, even though we know how it goes down.
I didn’t mind the cancer story, but the turnaround really bugged me. It should have been testicular cancer that hit Christian. Losing a nut would really hurt the guy. Well done episode, otherwise.
What was up with the crazy editing during the mammogram scenes? It was like… EXTREEEME!!!
Another lol worthy moment was when Christian is banging the one girl, he’s naked, and then out of nowhere he’s wearing a vest, and then there’s no vest again. I thought it was funny.
I liked how they referenced the dream episode.
Now all they need to bring back is the alien and UFO stuff…
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| Originally Posted by John Ritter View Post I didn’t mind the cancer story, but the turnaround really bugged me. It should have been testicular cancer that hit Christian. Losing a nut would really hurt the guy. Well done episode, otherwise. |
I think they went the breast cancer route because it relates to how Christian treats women. He always ends up treating them with shit, and now he’s been stricken with something that ordinarily affects mostly women. They’re probably looking to change his character’s view towards women by having him sympathize and relate to them more. I hope I’m wrong though; nobody would buy Christian as anything more than a selfish penis with feet.
Nip/Tuck has become one of those, at least for me, that I watch for the sake of watching. The show has long since lost its cutting edge factor and the storylines for the past few season have blurred the line between laughable and obsurd. Still, Christian’s wit and his chemistry with Sean are pretty much the only reason I still tune in. The show can easily exist with just the two of them as the central charcters; keeping Julia, Matt, Wilbur, and any other retread character from previous seasons around has ruined Nip/Tuck. Its unfortunate the writer’s couldn’t see that.
This show has no ceiling on the fucked up-ness.
This is going to sound really, really naive and silly, but stick with me.
Nip/Tuck has developed a seriously fucked up vision of sex. OK, yes, the show has also had a lot of out there physical adventures. But they made sense. You would see Christian seducing his partners. Or when he took Kimber to the swingers gig, but you could see that things weren’t really right for them there.
Now we go from Shawn teaching one class to getting blown by the hot girl in class, in literally ONE edit. And how is Shawn scoring all this tail in a wheelchair. The girls aren’t a bit apprehensive? At least Christian has a bit of trouble getting his between the Craig’s List tramp and Kimber. He’s trying to work for it at least, which he always has. Then Shawn’s hot chick (never got her name) has the weird baby fetish that they develop over two scenes, but was horribly obvious from the first scene. The writers have lost any idea of how to create a slightly nuanced, or subtle at times, plot or character development.
And then, what are they doing have Christian get it on with Liz? That kind of hurts both characters. Liz has always been the smartest of the bunch, and there is no way she would have let that happen even a season ago.
At this point, I’m just happy Shawn is out of the damn wheelchair. Also, the Doogie Howser surgeon they brought in might make the show worth watching all season. How freaked out he was when the patient’s partner came into the bathroom was pretty much priceless.
Glad i stopped watching last season. Sounds even worse.
I’m glad I’m not the only one bothered by the weird pacing of the sex on this show. The jump to Shawn and baby-fetish chick was really jarring, as was the Christian and Liz hookup. But then, the trainwreck nature of this show is one of the few reasons I’m still watching. That and to see what ridiculous one-liner or asshole move Christian will make next.
YEah, the show is pretty bad. But as you mentioned, its got that trainwreck feel. Its seems the writers are just throwing so much crap at the wall and hoping something sticks. Def. agree that Christian and Liz having sex was a mistake. Sean getting it on with a young sexed up resident isn’t a stretch because she probably just admires the guy.
As terrible as the show and storylines have become, the one thing i’ll give the writers is the dialouge which is still quite good.
Did they have completely different writers for the first half and the second half of this season? Most of the plot lines they built up before the long break have been almost totally ignored so far. Sean’s daughter was on the freaking operating table when he was attacked. You hear Liz state that she will be okay when she goes into “d-tap” or whatever the issue was…then nothing so far in two episodes.
Did I miss the episode when Julia got her memory back? I remember Sean telling her they were still married, but I don’t remember the sudden clarity and her realizing Sean lied to her, but they mentioned it in the season re-opener that she was still mad at him about it. I might just have a fuzzy memory of that one.
I freaking loved that Christian used his condition and pitiful state to sneak his tube snake in on Liz. That was vintage Christian.
I hope that young dude they hired as part of their practice gets interesting fast. I don’t find him funny at all so far.
Julia doesn’t have her memory back, not completely. In a throw away line she mentions she remembers some things, like her parents and holidays.
I forgot this was on. I haven’t watched since the premiere. Doesn’t seem like the show has improved any.
I haven’t tuned in this season at all, as I’ve just decided to wait for DVD this time around, but I do have a question.
Liz sleeps with Christian? Is she questioning her lesbianism, or is it just because it’s *Christian*?
Because Liz and Christian’s relationship has always been one of the things I enjoyed most out of the show. That brother/sister love/hate thing, which now sounds like it’s out the window…
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| Originally Posted by summer smile View Post Liz sleeps with Christian? Is she questioning her lesbianism, or is it just because it’s *Christian*? |
I really don’t know. It made no sense at all.
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| Originally Posted by summer smile View Post I haven’t tuned in this season at all, as I’ve just decided to wait for DVD this time around, but I do have a question. Liz sleeps with Christian? Is she questioning her lesbianism, or is it just because it’s *Christian*? Because Liz and Christian’s relationship has always been one of the things I enjoyed most out of the show. That brother/sister love/hate thing, which now sounds like it’s out the window… |
It’s not the way it sounds. He’s having trouble with the chemo drugs for his breast cancer and not being very successful in getting the 'tang (and that includes trying to pay for it). Liz has been really nice and nurturing. After a bad prostitute interaction (she elbows him in the stomach and steals his medicine after he tries to kick her out) Liz comes over and helps him clean up the mess from the scuffle.
After she gets Christian settled, he asks her to stay until he falls asleep since he doesn’t want to be alone. I’m sure it was this emotional, needy side of Christian that just melted her heart and convinced her to stay awhile. While she was in bed with Christian and Christian was asleep, he rolls over and starts to feel her up and then eventually slips it in her. The look on Liz’s face made me think that she didn’t necessarily want it, but she didn’t want to freak out, make a big scene and ruin the motherly relationship she had developed with Christian.
That was at first. After he starts doing her, it does seem like she enjoys it (enough to sort of quesiton her lesbianism later on). It’s revealed after Christian rolls back over upon finishing that he was awake the whole time. For him, I just took it as a way to get some trim after failing earlier in the night. I don’t think he really has any designs on getting with Liz.
Anyway, it was a really weird couple scenes, but I get the impression like the writers are not planning on changing the Christian/Liz relationship any, they just wanted a means for Christian to be able to crack jokes at Liz’s expense about putting it in her.
I know they’ve been doing shock-value writing for a long time now, but last night’s episode? WTF? We had: