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“I enjoy the Smash After-Show Podcast, and I'm glad you guys are honest about the frustrations you see with the show in its current state. I wanted to lay out what I think are the essential problems of this season:
1) It seems that Smash, as good as it can be and no matter who the showrunner is, seems to pick one glaring "implausible" plot point each of its two season. Last season it was that Karen was inexplicably better than Ivy at being Marilyn. This season it's the strange unknown quality that has made Jimmy a major part of everyone's lives. You've all said it numerous times - he's childish, he's petty, he has a chip on his shoulder, he's immature and he seems proud of all of it. Yet both Karen and Derek are drawn to him as some kind of paragon of great character, talent and worthy of affection and loyalty. All the viewers are left wondering is, why? How are we supposed to believe a professional director like Derek would ever give him the time of day, or stay with a project so rough and untested, no matter his attraction to Karen or beef with "Bombshell"? How are we ever to believe that a young ingenue like Karen would for two seconds think of giving up a first-time starring role on Broadway for a guy like Jimmy and an art-house show like "Hit List"? There's suspension of disbelief, and then there's ridiculous.
2) I am not a fan of any of the music from "Hit List" and after loving many of the "Bombshell" songs from last year, these all, to me, fall flat in originality and execution. None, to me, make me want to download or otherwise remember after the show airs. Again, we're expected to believe that Jimmy and Kyle are writing phenomenal songs but the quality - like Karen's potential to play Marilyn - is manufacted in the writing room and not on the screen.
3) I'm not making a prediction or setting an ultimatum, but to me the only way they salvage the season and the status of "Bombshell" is to combine the best of both scripts - the original spectacle-driven draft and the emotional powerhouse Julie later wrote - into one coherant work, and use Ivy and Karen as the two sides of Marilyn. The side she saw, and the side the men saw. That way they both get to play Marilyn and everyone's take on the character is satisfied. Anything less and all this work has been for nothing.
Thanks for letting me rant - keep up the good work.
Barry”
Barry Wallace via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
03/22/13
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