When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before. - Mae West

Dexter · Worst Poster of Always

RE: THE WHAT'S GOOD ON TV NOWADAYS ANYWAY THREAD

john31584 · Zinc Saucier

Betty (the hot blond) is Don's wife.

She gradually morphs into a raging, spiteful harpy with the emotional maturity of a 5-year-old.

Not that Don was totally blameless, but her problems went WAY deeper than his philandering.

Peggy, the new secretary, is pretty much awesome throughout.

-- Edited by john31584 on Tuesday 4th of January 2011 01:06:07 AM

Dexter · Worst Poster of Always

Thus far it seems so.

But, despite what she becomes, I can't help but feel sorry for the wife's situation. Even if she is a horrible person, he's still doing a horrible thing.

Pizza · Sheriff of Paddy's

Dexter wrote:

This show gets even worse - his wife, whom he is cheating on, needs therapy and he lets her go, only to have the doctor tell him all about what she's saying later on.

It's probably factually accurate, but it still ticks me off. SO ANNOYED THAT WOMEN FOLK HAD TO LIVE THROUGH THAT BS.

So wait... what are pissed that they had to live through? Are you saying that because one character on a TV show you watched had to deal with an unfaithful husband and an unscrupulous therapist that those were problems that an entire generation of women all had to deal with?

HI MY NAME IS DEXTER AND I KNOW WHAT FICTION IS. I JUST WATCHED THE LOST WEEKEND. I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT EVERY GUY IN THE 40'S WAS A RAGING ALCOHOLIC. THAT IS SUCH BULLPOOP.

john31584 · Zinc Saucier

ahahahaha

john31584 · Zinc Saucier

I just saw Wild Wild West and I had no idea that everybody in the 1860s had to fight giant mechanical spiders.

Pizza · Sheriff of Paddy's

EVERYBODY IN THE GREAT DEPRESSION HAD A RETARDED FRIEND WITH AN AFFINITY FOR RABBITS. DID YOU KNOW THAT?

john31584 · Zinc Saucier

Man, living in the 1980s with the constant threat of being gunned down by Libyan terrorists in a VW bus because you screwed them over on a deal to sell them plutonium must have been really hard!

-- Edited by john31584 on Tuesday 4th of January 2011 04:25:59 AM

john31584 · Zinc Saucier

I had no idea that everyone in Tudor England was a playwright who had a love affair with Gweneth Paltrow!

john31584 · Zinc Saucier

And I sure am glad that things like cheating husbands and unethical therapists don't exist anymore!

Pizza · Sheriff of Paddy's

SO THE ENTIRE TIME I WAS THINKING "MAN I WONDER WHAT PLANET THEY'RE ON?" BUT THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN I WAS LIKE "STATUE OF LIBERTY WTF? THAT'S NOT ANOTHER PLANET, THAT'S NOT ANOTHER PLANET AT ALL! THAT'S EARTH!" I COULDN'T BELIEVE IT BUT IT'S TRUE, MAN'S DESTRUCTIVE TENDENCIES WILL LEAD TO A PLANET POPULATED NOT BY MAN, BUT BY APES!

-- Edited by Pizza on Tuesday 4th of January 2011 07:27:49 AM

Pizza · Sheriff of Paddy's

john31584 wrote:

And I sure am glad that things like cheating husbands and unethical therapists don't exist anymore!

Totally!

Dexter · Worst Poster of Always

Sigh. It's fiction but it recreates the conditions in which women had no rights and were treated as objects. I don't enjoy watching that.

john31584 · Zinc Saucier

But saying that women had no rights in 1961 is kind of ridiculous.

Dexter · Worst Poster of Always

They lacked equality, even if they had some basic human rights they still weren't treated with equal status.

Dexter · Worst Poster of Always

Wait, what happened to Peggy at the end of season 1? She got really fat.

Dexter · Worst Poster of Always

Okay, never mind. Although, that was kind of lame. How do you not notice and why would she gain weight in the face?

john31584 · Zinc Saucier

Most pregnant women gain weight everywhere.

Dexter · Worst Poster of Always

They went overboard on her face, though.

Dexter · Worst Poster of Always

I don't really like Betty, but I don't think her soul is rotting. I'm almost through the third season.

Being sick and in bed, I have nothing better to do than watch this show and try and get better.

It just seems as if she's a really bored housewife. It was mean of her to set her friend up for that affair, but other than that, she almost seems dissociative and massively depressed. I wonder why she wanted to get married and have kids - it really doesn't seem as if she wants or likes her kids or would have ever wanted to be the housewife type.