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Post by maddieaddisonjr on Apr 12, 2007 21:20:14 GMT -5
I need to catch up with the other posts but I'll just post my initial reaction now. This was a very good episode - a 9. All that David/Maddie-ness I like so much was back! So zany! There should be no more confusion between our couple. Maddie is alive with David in a way she isn't with anyone else. David gets giddy just being with Maddie. The end of this episode should be a new beginning for them. They get married, have the baby and continue on like Hart To Hart - Blue Moon style. Some people think the main couple coming together means the end of the excitement of watching them relate to each other. Not with D&M! Come on, the writers have proven they are talented enough to go against norms and naysayers and create this fantastic show. Surely, 'Mr. and Mrs. Addison' in their hands would be just as captivating as they are as two singles. If Maddie didn't feel a resounding 'yes' within herself when Sam asked her to marry him, to me that means the answer is 'no.' What's there to think about? And this is besides the fact that Maddie has strong feelings for David that she's only just beginning to address. Sam breezed into town just two days ago after having no contact with her for years and now he asks her to marry him - just because he feels 'happy' waiting up for her until 2 am and doing things in preparation for her return? (Meaning: just because he has enjoyed the last two nights?) Give me a small break. They don't really know each other anymore after all this time. Two nights of intimacy between 'familiar strangers' are no indication whatsoever that they are right for each other for a lifetime commitment like marriage. My answer would be 'no' because I'd realize that Sam might be nice but he has no common sense. This isn't Cinderella; it's Moonlighting, it's real!
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Post by davnee on Jun 10, 2007 21:15:00 GMT -5
I give this one a 10. I love the scene where Maddie is alone in her office and is incredulous that David had crashed her dinner in order to talk about Bert. Cybill is brilliant in this scene at expressing Maddie's confusion and frustration. She knows instinctively why David crashed her date, but she isn't going to let herself believe in his feelings unless he actually tells her. And that sets up the whole episode (as well as the next episode, hell the whole rest of the series!) as she tries again and again to get him to say he loves her (and not say it just during sex). It is so perfect and yet so heartbreaking that when they finally let their guard down and talk in the "trunk scene" they use the proxy language of hate rather than love to express themselves. And it's a great set-up for David's shock and anger in the next episode that Maddie didn't tell him about the proposal and that things between them weren't settled by the kiss in his living room. They are such a classic contrast of the words v. feelings, ego v. id, personalities and her need for him to "talk" and his inability to do so are just perfect.
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Post by Frontier on Jul 12, 2007 13:34:56 GMT -5
I couldn't agree more with the above posts regarding this episode; it's so livid and prepares the climax perfectly for the resolution in "I am Curious... Maddie".
A 10.
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Post by lin212 on Dec 7, 2007 14:24:29 GMT -5
I watched this episode again the other night and I have to comment on how wonderfully warm and vulnerable Maddie is in the trunk scene as she collapses onto David's chest and responds to his tender kiss. I also love the expression on her face after the kiss - pleased, content - like a young lover's first kiss. Her love for David is so apparent. I wish that the writers had chosen to portray her more in this light than as the bipolar psychotic that we see in subsequent episodes.
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Post by maddieaddisonjr on Dec 13, 2007 13:32:54 GMT -5
I agree with you, lin. I wish they had continued talking and decided they just couldn't be apart and that Sam should be sent packing.
David and Maddie had so much fun together on the case too!
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Post by nazel on Jun 27, 2008 19:02:05 GMT -5
One of my favourite episodes ever it has all the elements Comedy, especially Bruce doing a woman in the surveillance truck, that was hilarious .. Drama, my Maddie crying, don't baby, I'm here & adventure, the way Maddie kept hitting that car is just priceless lol
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Post by maddieaddisonjr on Jun 28, 2008 19:20:17 GMT -5
nazel, I think that is one of my top favorite Maddie scenes ever - when she is throwing bottles from the back of the milk truck at the car and hollering "Ahhhh!" I love it!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2010 4:39:54 GMT -5
A 10 from me. Such a wonderful episode.
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Post by sandra on Jan 16, 2011 17:15:06 GMT -5
coulda been only a 10.
And I gotta redo my top 6 list. Great!
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Post by missingmymoonlight on May 20, 2012 19:35:32 GMT -5
...The sweetness and the relaxed spontaneity of the trunk kiss -- long awaited, hard won for them AND viewers -- earn this episode a 10. Bruce was soooo sexy rumpled -- great acting, B.W., just great...
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Post by dedaved on Jul 5, 2012 16:32:32 GMT -5
Rating: 9Yeah, yeah, yeah this may feature the most tender moment between David and Maddie of the whole series blah, blah but can we talk a bit about Addison's apartment first off and what a brilliantly inspired decision that was? Sure we would assume that a reckless guy like David live like a slob in his own filth but instead they opted for him to live in his own... space. We can't emphasize the word SPACE enough. But when you think about it of COURSE his place is barren. Of course he doesn't decorate, have furniture or use his apartment other than a base. Adornment of any kind would suggest that David "stops." That he even would have time to live like a slob wouldn't make sense because he would never be in any part of the apartment, save for the bedroom, long enough for that to happen. His line to Maddie "I've been meaning to have you over" is such a perfect, dead-on line for a guy who clearly never entertains suddenly having someone show up out of the blue. Speaking of blue I would love to find out where David got that gorgeous, piercing blue light that was clearly attached somewhere on his ceiling over his living room! I would love to have that for the next time I want to set the mood perfectly My affection for I Am Curious Maddie... notwithstanding I have to say I still think that THIS scene could've easily been where David and Maddie finally confess how the feel about each other and come together in a much more touching fashion then we would end up with in "I Am Curious.." It might not have made dynamite television per se but the tone is so warm and the energy between them brimming so much with that aching internal conflict that comes with confronting what a person REALLY means to you that it wouldn't have been any less potent. It's a beautiful moment between them. You almost know that nothing is going to happen or be resolved here because it frankly would've been TOO perfect and when you tell someone how you feel it's never perfect. David's button on this scene is as inspired a fourth wall break as you could hope for and the kiss is so beautiful that it just plain hurts. It HURTS! Seeing Maddie and David on the case for the first time since "All Creatures..." was worth the wait and perfectly counterbalances (as well as compliments) the emotional baggage this now three episode arc has been working through. The stakeout scene is classic D/M through and through and once the episode decides to take us back to the show's roots Bruce and Cybill don't let us down. The chase scene is spectacularly funny! Not only a solid chapter in the Crawford saga but one of the most balanced shows in the latter half of the series in terms of dealing with the truth of D/M's relationship while still remembering to have a good time.
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Post by finefinegoodgood on Jul 5, 2012 22:00:19 GMT -5
dedaved...can I just say...I LOVE your reviews.
Its so nice to have a male POV around here. Keep it up! Get in on some of the other great stuff too! Would love to see you participate in some of the other stuff on the board too. Go do 6 of 66 or 30 things about me post...I am curious to see what you would put.
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Post by snappysara on Jul 10, 2012 16:28:26 GMT -5
One of you..maybe Nancy...described this scene sooo perfectly on here. Something about maddie's hell bent persuit of finding out what David wanted to tell her and the 5 star stage set and dust settling around them as they walked out into the blue light. Who was it and where is that description please? does anyone remember? I love it so much......
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Post by goldilocks on Jul 11, 2012 8:52:46 GMT -5
Snappy, I love that description too, and you are right, it was Nancy who described it so brilliantly, here it is:
You can read the rest of her comment on the "Our favorite scenes" thread! Xxx
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Post by beesnbears on Jul 11, 2012 17:30:54 GMT -5
It is indeed a beautiful description. It still amazes me how they could use lighting to convey what was really going on in a scene. Those two didn't have to say a word.
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