Firestorm

"...with Brett and Michelle getting back together (I actually can't stand them as a couple) and Alex and Tina predictably getting it on, I guess I won't miss this show as much as I thought I would. Perhaps the Duplii knew they would be canceled and wrote something like this so we wouldn't care anymore." I wondered this, too. And thought Brett and Michelle should be getting a divorce since S 1 Ep 1. I don't think Brett is an asshole, at all. They're just clearly not good together. Same with Alex and Tina. She's awful and ridiculous and he deserves better- he's a very thoughtful guy. The show would've been better if he had accepted that job offer and she agreed to coach/manage him. That would've been a more realistic and workable relationship. After watching this episode, I'm not sad that this show is over. I want to be. I really want to be, but I was left feeling ambivalent. Was it just me, or was the first season infinitely better??

I would like it if they left it a bit open ended- with the possibility to continue, but a little bit like you know where things look like they're going. I can't imagine them saying everyone lived happily ever after! That would be so out of character for the show, I would even rather a cliff hanger than that!

I've watched some interviews with Amanda Peet and I thought I'd like her better than I like her as Tina... I do, but only marginally. I have to, because none of her interviews show her as a crazy, illogical, over emotional trainwreck... Maybe she just isn't good with interviews, but she seems like kind of a simpleton.

I know right! She's a hot mess and the fact he knows this and is still interested in her says a lot. I'm honestly at a loss for what he sees in her though. She's fun, but the crazy outweighs the fun- for me. Still, I'm curious. I want them to be together, but only if they're happy- wonder what that looks like! I, too, LOVED the sand sequence and the fact Dudley really took one for the team. Cheering, too! I reeeally want them to have a good school for the children! Another private school defeats their original motivation behind the charter school project and would be a bit of a let down for the way the plot line ended. Although, I do like how this show is realistic in that not everyone gets what they want so there's a lot of problem solving going on. Oh yeah! The stealing the sand- I'm not bothered because it's LA. Not a wilderness preserve. It's not as gross as most people say, but it's not exactly 'disturbing the environment' as much as mildly irritating city management.

Don't think he's all that broken up about his wife having an affair? He's clearly messed up over it. He took off straight running. He got over major depression and devoted himself to fixing things with his wife and making her happy - only to find out she'd been having an emotional affair that ended up in her cheating on him and had not told him anything over the weeks/months that this was developing. I'd be pretty rocked, too. He's trying to figure out what to do with his life now. And I think the dune play is a really cool idea! Yeah, he's having a crisis. Give him a break and let him recenter. Honestly, Tina is a mess. She's a turbulent, impulsive, illogical, over-emotional train wreck. Constantly committing the straw man fallacy in every argument she gets in. I don't know what Alex ever saw in her. Maybe he's attracted to women he has to take care of because she doesn't have her shit together at all.

How sad that this is the last episode! Hope they don't leave it on a cliffhanger.

Admittedly, what he did was wrong and he should have been honest with Michelle either way- but especially since he continued contact with Natalie. Also, he should have notified Michelle if he perceived them as officially "separated" and not working on things. But- I still think what Michelle did was worse. Michelle emotionally cheated for (what seemed like, not sure of the actual chronology) months before actually cheating. I understand she wasn't happy happy- but she had thought about it, encouraged it, almost premeditated it. It was a mistake, but it was a choice that she made by default of not taking initiative to end things directly. Brett made an impulsive decision, and is now floundering and handled it stupidly and immorally (in my opinion), however- he's trying to figure out his life. I think she pulled the high horse on him with that out burst. I do feel bad for her, but I don't think what he did was worse. It was worse in that she was making an effort at the time he cheated, but, too me- her emotionally cheating and playing into it for months outweighed his impulsiveness. (Neither of them handled the afterwards part very well, but I guess it's not easy to handle.