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lulu karma -> RE: Pushing Daisies - US Speed (3/10/2008 7:49:28 PM)
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Well, I managed to sit myself down last night and watch the TiVo'd episode. I have to say that it was odd. I mean, really odd more odd than usual. This should be spoiler free and I will be vague in my specifics relating to the story.
Chuck and the Pie Man are still in love but the episode did not pick up where it left off last season. In Season 1, Chuck had discovered that The Pie Man had inadvertently killed her father as a child. She left the apartment and that is where it was. When we pick up for Season 2, it would stand to reason that she would not be back in the apartment and some resolution to the "offing" of her Dad would need to come about, but no. In some alternate universe, I suspect related to the writer's strike that cut last season short, we know what the resolution was to this HUGE SECRET that he held back from her for so long.
That was a little annoying.
Yet, the people are charming as usual and we see the same things as before... The aunts are still agoraphobic, Olive still sighs after the Pie Man and the Private Eye loves knitting and pop up books. Nothing new comes about in terms of story. Someone dies, Pie Man touches, they speak, story unfolds. This episode struck me more as a set up piece for what is to come. Chuck and the Pie Man reach a new living arrangement, and in a very odd twist, Olive is strangely relocated.
Olive can be irritating but I can't say she is a character you can hate per se. She's not mean. In fact she is very loyal and tries to be understanding, but at the same time, she just grates a bit. Like a hamster on crack. Having said that, I was not very happy with how her character was treated in regards to her new location or her previous location. In fact, I found it tacky!
So I'm not sure what is going to happen with that. We'll see as it unfolds but last night left a little tang of bad taste in my mouth. Such a feel good, yet oddly dark show should not tinge its story by coming across as mean to one of its characters. I'll still watch though to see if the season shapes up.
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