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Post by iluvdavid on Nov 26, 2011 17:08:20 GMT -5
Or maybe Terry! lol
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Post by bertviola on Sept 13, 2023 11:34:11 GMT -5
I am going to digress a little from the questions.......Lord knows we NEVER hijack these threads....hahaha! Jen's great follow-up story last week reminded me of an exercise a bunch of us did way back years ago. We did "Alphabet Moonlighting" -- we chose a letter of the alphabet and a word, and wrote a one or two page vignette. Cut to the chase....one of those I wrote years ago is what I called a "missing scene" in "The Flesh Was Made Word". Just in case anybody wants to take a look, I posted it on Fanfiction.net. And please be gentle -- it was written about 7 or 8 years ago. It's called "Deny" www.fanfiction.net/s/4915448/1/DenyAlso, Maddie married Walter. They never talk about it, but Maddie seemed to believe (or want to make herself believe) she loved Walter. It seems they would have "boinked" at least once? Otherwise, doesn't a marriage not count?
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Post by bertviola on Sept 13, 2023 11:40:49 GMT -5
I feel yes because it was the same scenario but they played different roles; reversed roles. Maddie pushing for David to see things her way and commit; David reluctant and resisting. Agree with since on this one. The situation is the same, but the roles are reversed. Why can't these two push (or pull) in the same direction! Maddie is just very egocentric. Even in this episode, she just proves it. She always needs time to think, but actually never does. "i need to think" is her way of saying no to Sam AND David. Sam was smart enough to dump her before she could. And whenever Maddie IS spontaneous, it's a disaster. Like when she flies to Argentina. Or when she plans her ONS. Maddie can't really deal with anything, planned or unplanned. She feels she has to control everything, but never considers others. Not Dave, not Sam, not Walter, not her parents, not her staff. It's just so Maddie of her that she is almost mad that David can't just get over what she did to him. Like he said "If you were a guy, I would have knocked your teeth out!" It's also SUPER SELFISH to run out on your own wedding (poor Walter) and not give a damn about poor Terri. Imagine if it had been Terri at her birth. I am sure she would hold that against David for years. This episode shows though why Maddie and David don't work. She likes that he is different, but she actually wants him to be how she is. Like the way she wants to force him basically to feel the same way about the letters. Or the way she tries to force him to share, to talk when she's the one who never wants to talk and "needs time". Gosh, I am sorry, but I just pretty much can't stand Maddie anymore at the end of the show. It's good she doesn't get anyone, she doesn't deserve it .
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Post by bertviola on Sept 13, 2023 11:42:05 GMT -5
Also, one thing about the case:
Did anyone notice how it doesn't make sense??? The wife says she SHOT her husband. The police however says he was clubbed to death.
Now even if her letter guy clubbed a corpse, surely the police would know?
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Post by julia980 on Dec 28, 2023 15:10:56 GMT -5
What a revelation that moving in together was actually in the script at one point! Boy what endless opportunity for antics that could have been.
I don’t really agree with the idea that what they have is so unique and unconventional that they could never get married and be in a committed relationship. David’s past proved he was essentially a one-woman man who could settle down. Maddie showed over and over that she preferred David to other men and he was the only one she could ever love fully. Up until the writers lost their minds I never got the sense that they always had “one foot out the door.” In S1-3 they grew a lot and worked hard to understand each other. They became a part of each others’ lives, not just casual observers as co-workers. It worked from the beginning. Yes, they fought but they clicked with each other like no other. That part was actually easy. I don’t know why it couldn’t have still worked but with the new dynamic of a commitment. Instead they wrote in this implication mantra that what they had would inevitably implode because of their differences. To me that’s just like saying the past three years never happened. The whole point of the show in my mind was the two of them changing each other for the better so that they COULD make it for the long haul.
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