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The Newsroom - Episode 2.08 - Election Night, Part 1 - Sneak Peeks

28 Aug 2013

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6 comments:

  1. AngelaRobinson9028 August 2013 at 20:12

    Really hope Taylor is not going to be a regular thing, she really bugs me.

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  2. Milan Pavicic28 August 2013 at 23:11

    Elliot and Sloan are awesome.

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  3. Folie-lex29 August 2013 at 04:58

    TeeHee for Eliot/Sloan....


    I don't get why Maggie hates Jim.... I really don't....

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  4. AdelphaHighbrow1 September 2013 at 20:06

    I'm sure that will be explored. I am interested in that, too since they are my OTP. I think she resents him right now because she misses him and they don't/can't have the relationship they had before. Season 1 Jim would express his concern for her welfare a lot more warmly but now he is a bit distant. She's mostly angry at herself for messing up her life and that includes losing him. Seeing him "moved on" while she's broken is a bitch. Pretending to hate him is safer than what she really feels about him.

    I love Jim like a giddy schoolgirl but anti-Maggie people frustrate me when they don't put any responsibility on Jim for what happened between them. He strung Lisa along for over a year, breaking up, lying to her and getting back with her once Maggie was off the market. He was terribly cruel to her in his attempt to move on. And at every turn he was willing to drop her in case Maggie was available. So Maggie's dishonesty alone didn't cost her that friendship, she and Jim are both equally to blame. Maggie has lost more than he has as a result of their games last season.

    *sigh* I just don't want him sleeping with Taylor, too before it's all over.

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  5. Folie-lex4 September 2013 at 19:36

    I'm actually getting over Jim/Maggie exactly because of how absolutely idiotic they have both acted. And they are both to blame for their relationship. I agree.
    Jim needs to get off his high horse and Maggie should stop victimizing herself.

    Frankly I thought their relationship was cute last season, but honestly I like them more as individual characters now that they aren't on good terms, and that this whole "epic love" is not in the way. And I'm at a point where I would actually be 100% happy if they never get together. In fact I think I would prefer it.

    For me the thing is Jim has always been upfront about how he feels about her. She hasn't and that's their fundamental difference. Which is why I think her hating him is excessive, while his behaviour I can understand.

    I won't say Jim is not being a patronizing jerk in the process of getting over Maggie, or that it wasn't douchey what he was doing with Lisa last season. However, that's a whole other issue I have with Jim separately as a character, in considering him that type who coasts on the "wholesome nice guy" facade that will make me go off tangent.
    But in relation to how he's being with Maggie specifically, I get where he is coming from. He put himself out there. And he was strung along only to be shot down, badly... He has somewhat a right to be cruel and want this to be over.
    And in the end Jim might be cold towards her, but I think through all his condescension you can tell he still cares.

    Maggie? Hating him... really?
    In the end it's exactly what Lisa said. She never takes responsibility for when she screws up. And that's her problem. She just blames other people and acts like she's the one who was wronged. Maggie did lose more than Jim, yes, but again... it was her fault. She can't blame him for that. She shouldn't shoulder any of the blame of what she lost other than their friendship on him. And she sure as hell can't blame him for Lisa... Lisa who repeatedly tried to pull herself away from the running only to be pushed on Jim by Maggie all the freakin' time! (how Jim treated Lisa is a Jim/Lisa issue and does not reflect on Lisa/Maggie at all)
    In the end Maggie is so used to "dodging bullets" and getting away by being cute, and now that it's finally a situation where her default is not working she just needs someone to blame. That I can't respect....

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  6. AdelphaHighbrow5 September 2013 at 10:12

    Maggie's mistakes are cringe-worthy and undeniable. I cannot defend her on how she pushed Lisa to be with Jim. Trainwreck. She deserves any pain that might result in him being with her during that time. I disagree with you pretty strongly about Jim always being up front about his feelings for her. I think he was just as clear and honest about his feelings for her as she was with him. He even went as far as to say, "Stop breaking up with Don and make it work." The closest he EVER came to a confession was after he slept with Lisa and he said, "Doesn't it feel a little bit good that my instinct was to lie?" By that point it was already tangled. More clear to the viewer than to Maggie. The only thing Maggie had to go on was the way Jim acted around her and with the eye-f***ing across the room. Which is, exactly what Jim had to go on with her. Equally evasive except that she had a fore running relationship she was trying (badly) to do right by.

    I also disagree about Maggie continuing to put blame on people. I think after the trauma she went through in Uganda she feels like she is almost completely responsible for killing Daniel. I think that she is coping with that guilt alone, aware that she has chased away everyone she loves. I do think she feels responsible for everything bad in her life. And it doesn't feel good. I would react in a lot of similar ways as she does. When you grieve that way there is a period of anger you go through where you just hate people for not loving you anymore but you're not really mad at them so much as sad at them. She hates herself right now. For all the same reasons the viewers do and more. Her whole "I hate Jim" thing is going to last all of two minutes so I am comfortable with it because it's raw and real. I cannot be convinced after watching her that she is not walking around with guilt for everything wrong about her on her back.

    What's frustrating to me is all the people who hate Maggie because she's ditsy cannot be pleased with her even now that she is on the other end of a quick, hard learning curve. I will never stop shipping them just because of how hard Jim fell. If he moved on completely from her I'd lose faith in him. She is honestly on the way to becoming a better person than him now. Her scene with the lawyer? She's a badass all of a sudden. She can change her hair if she wants. She isn't currently concerned with being cute. I want to take that b**** out for a night of drinking in Manhattan and see her continue to grow from this.

    I dunno, I just hope you (and other anti-Maggie viewers) change your mind.

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