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CouchTomato

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  1. In the Winter thread, a lot of people were wondering about whether Luke's pride in Rory's New Yorker piece was supposed to indicate that she hadn't really gotten much other work over the last 8-9 YEARS. Wouldn't they have had other clippings etc? But in the Spring thread, nobody has called out that we learned (through the GQ meeting) that she does have other successes, and is generally well regarded by the powers that be in the industry, that she has had bylines in Slate and The Atlantic. So I think the New Yorker piece was just her most recent piece, and something that was a big deal because it's the New Yorker! That said, it still bugs the heck out of me that in Winter, she is acting like a career woman, carrying a separate "work phone" and flying here and there, needing to leave her grandpa's funeral early and only able to spend one day with her mother and not visit for Thanksgiving etc., when we now know that she is not a staff reporter for ANY publication, that her phone is not paid for by work (i.e. she is choosing to pay for three phone plans and devices herself and call one her work phone), and that no expense account is funding her travel nor is there a full time job that actually required her to not have time for her family in the previous scenes. Frankly, it makes her seem delusional. I respect (real life) freelance writers, but her behavior is totally inconsistent with someone who has that level of flexibility on work hours. Regarding Sandee Says, I have seen some comments that Rory seems to think it is below her because it is a website - I did not take it that way, particularly after references to Slate etc. The CEO compared her site to an up and coming Huffington Post, and I think we were supposed to believe this particular site was one where Rory felt there was not quality journalism happening. I recently watched The Newsroom S3 and there is a whole plot where Jim's girlfriend whose name I can't remember gets a job with a website like that, and he is awfully sanctimonious about the whole thing, and I read Rory's reaction as the same. If she took on a full time job with them, she would be giving up on the irons in the fire, the dangling carrot from Conde Nast, the book deal on spec, etc. because she would be expected to work for them. (None of this excuses that when she finally decides to give up her dreams and work with them, she is totally unprofessional at her meeting with the CEO.) I don't really understand why GQ (Gentleman's Quarterly), which I still think of as a men's fashion and style magazine, was doing a piece on the psychology of lines, but ok, I'll go with it. I didn't see her failure to find the story as proof that Huntzberger was right and she has no talent or ideas, since we have been told otherwise repeatedly -- I saw it as a sign that she has reached a point of exhaustion with her career, and that in that moment she just couldn't do it anymore. Her own early-30s what am I doing with my life crisis. Once she reaches that point she is ready for Sandee Says. Phew! Feels good to have a place to talk about all this!
  2. Yep. All of the Shonda shows are on hiatus after tonight until 1/29.
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