7th Heaven: There Is No God
#1
Posted May 30, 2005 @ 8:29 PM
I'll start: for me, the highlight was the twins coming into their own and bringing the snark in the episodes after Annie told them that they weren't hers. (Potential future TWoP recappers?)
The lowlight (well, the lowest light, since there were so many lowlights) was the horrendous "musical" episode with the All-Dancing! All-Singing! Boys' Baseball Team. Joss Whedon has so much to answer for.
#2
Posted May 30, 2005 @ 9:01 PM
#3
Posted May 30, 2005 @ 9:20 PM
I mean, consider the major recurring "motif" this season. Either California sends all their (white) orphaned children to Glen Oak or there is a SERIOUS abandonment problem in that town. That being said, one one of Reverend Camden's greatest "victories" this season was to get an emotionally immature high school student and his equally emotionally immature girlfriend to get marride despite having no familial or financial support instead of giving their baby up for evil-adoption since that would be oh so much worse for the kid (Fathers).
Annie- God bless her. I mean seriously, isn't she what we want all our mothers to be? Taking vacations away from her family just like all mothers do (though I've never heard of tghis ever), disowning her family since they wanted to make stuffing for Thanksgiving, calling the Dan of Matt's school like he was in third grade, ignoring her own disabled children, or messing up her older one's booty call in song.
Eric- remember in the second episode when he invaded dinner with Simon since he was dining with a girl they didn't know? And he had all those creamy, greasy fatty foods on Simon's dime? That defines Eric for me the entire season.
Lucy- wonderful role model Lucy. Teaching girls everywhere that you don't need qualifications, just your daddy to get you a job...which you can proceed to not do for the entire season, that being bed-ridden is a perfect excuse for not getting a paper done, and if you want to be independent, you're sinful and wrong. And maybe someday, if you're really good, you'll give birth in a Target too.
Matt- why would he need a plot? I mean, he's an adult actor whose character may/may not have things going on in his life so why would we need to be concerned? He is much better used travelling to Glen Oak to be Mary's messengerboy or hanging out for no conceivable reason. Clearly, he doesn't like the family family and his marriage is obviously in the crapper, but whatever.
Martin- his father's a marine in Iraq and he's better than you. You have no right to even gaze in his general direction.
Best part of the season: Vincent's story about his parents. "We're atheists since they think parenting is too much hard work."
And everyone, don't forget to vote in elections and eat. Both of which are important enough to go avant-garde on our asses.
#4
Posted May 31, 2005 @ 12:40 AM
STDs! ESWs! Divorce! Birth! Dancing and "singing"! Poverty! (And, sir, hunger!) Glen Oak has seen a lot this season
If by a lot you mean a few issues replayed over and over, with each time being more stupid or boring than the last.
What I've picked up from this season is there is no need to know the proper names of any STD's since they are all exactly alike in symptoms and appearance. It doesn't really matter though because if you do get one, you're damned for life since none of them are curable or even treatable. You're just better just off not having sex (until after marriage, of course, because married people never EVER get Sexually Transmitted Diseases. DUH.) instead of getting any type of info about protection.
Edited by Nflux Forever, May 31, 2005 @ 12:42 AM.
#5
Posted May 31, 2005 @ 4:13 AM
It is kind of funny that it's only when Simon finally gives up the sex that he ends up the helpless plaything of a much smarter, more manipulative psychobitch. I think the writers may have screwed up the end of this plotline a bit.
Seriously, it continues to appall me that the Camdens had his back 100% when his carelessness killed somebody, but now that he's doing the dirty deed, they act like he's Ted Bundy. Priorities, people!
Since nothing else that was even remotely new occurred this season, I guess that's the lesson we're supposed to get from it all. Manslaughter = forgiveable, maybe even beneficial. Premarital sex = unforgiveable. Learn it, live it, and in the real world, end up in a mental ward.
Edited by sophronia, May 31, 2005 @ 4:17 AM.
#6
Posted Jun 1, 2005 @ 1:04 PM
#7
Posted Jun 1, 2005 @ 5:43 PM
I also learned that a family member getting killed in an auto accident can be a positive family experience and lead to lovely afternoon bike dates.
Edited by shrimpy, Jun 1, 2005 @ 6:25 PM.
#8
Posted Jun 1, 2005 @ 6:04 PM
Childbirth is a very clean and quiet process.
Also, foster care that is provided in group homes, or by families that are not affiliated with RevCam, is the seventh circle of hell. Foster care provided by families browbeaten by RevCam is a paradise, and the envy of all children "in" social services. Children "in" social services, especially the older ones, are incredibly well adjusted and have no behavior problems or emotional issues whatsoever.
#9
Posted Jun 1, 2005 @ 6:56 PM
#10
Posted Jun 2, 2005 @ 2:04 AM
#11
Posted Jun 2, 2005 @ 5:11 AM
I also learned that food stamps are the panacea for those who are poor (and, sir, hungry!) and America's teens who are poor (and, sir, hungry!) should bully their parents into applying for said food stamps.
#12
Posted Jun 2, 2005 @ 8:28 AM
It also only takes a few minutes and babies are born freshly clean and equipped with a towel. The mother can get up and walk through a parade of people afterwards.Childbirth is a very clean and quiet process
The best part was the coffee-kids and the fact that they were never heard from or referenced again. I also enjoyed watching this big guy say he's hungry and say "this blows".
I didn't like the whole "vote" thing. They spoke an awful lot for people that have nothing relevant to say.
The absolute worst was the musical episode! It wasn't funny! It was mean!
My God! I can't believe I thought Ruthie was a bit hot when she was doing her seductive dance.. NO! WAIT! FORGET I SAID THAT!
#13
Posted Jun 2, 2005 @ 2:29 PM
But this is balanced out by the school's consistent enrollment of twenty-five year olds. (Seriously, what is up with the casting?)There are also midgets in some of these schools.
I've learned that, while strolling around the hallways with your disparately aged classmates, if you feel like doing an inappropriate, "sultry" dance, complete with awful lip-synching? Go for it! Hell, compared to what goes down over by the baseball fields, this is normal.
Edited by Kelzen, Jun 2, 2005 @ 2:29 PM.
#14
Posted Jun 2, 2005 @ 4:35 PM
To be fair (I know, I know), Benjamin McKenzie of The OC is 50 and he plays a teenager as did Luke Perry (78 yo) of 90210.But this is balanced out by the school's consistent enrollment of twenty-five year olds. (Seriously, what is up with the casting?)
#15
Posted Jun 2, 2005 @ 5:25 PM
DO tell your six year old twins that they aren't your family
DON'T tell your ex husband to tell your brother to tell your family that you are getting a divorce and signing away custody of your son to his more competant father
DO make like the good daughtor and give birth in an elevator in the Big Big Department Store
DON'T have (give birth to?) the afterbirth OR have a messy birth
DO walk in on your son's date, be rude to his girlfriend, and eat various expensive meals at his expense
DON'T worry about what those fatty foods will do to your bad heart! as long as it prevents EVIL! premartial sex, it's cool
DO admit you have a problem (sadly not the twins or annie or any camden)
DON'T sell all the expensive things in your house that you don't need to get food but instead wait untill your teenager faints from hunger (at least it's on her expensive bedspread!)
DO trick unsuspecting aquantinces who have a daughtor in college and whose financial situation you don't know into adopting 4 kids, one of whom is in college and will surely need monetary aid and another of whom is handicapped
DON'T let teen parents give their child to a good home. instead, get your daughtor's ex-boyfriend to convince them to get married
i hate this show
#16
Posted Jun 2, 2005 @ 5:47 PM
Heh. True, true. He and Adam Brody look nothing like high school juniors, but I think it's pardonable because they're so cute. (I'm shallow like that, see.)Benjamin McKenzie of The OC is 50
Oh my gosh, I forgot about the name "Big Big Department Store". As minor as that detail was, it was a low point of the season for me. If it was intended to be a joke, it wasn't funny; if it wasn't, then I'm very, very scared.DO make like the good daughtor and give birth in an elevator in the Big Big Department Store
#17
Posted Jun 3, 2005 @ 9:26 AM
ETA this quote I just read from sophronia in the Media thread:
Could it be that even some of the die-hard fans realized they were being mocked when that horrible episode aired? I sure hope so.
See? Glad I'm not the only one!
Edited by jennifuh, Jun 3, 2005 @ 9:27 AM.
#18
Posted Jun 3, 2005 @ 10:16 AM
#19
Posted Jun 3, 2005 @ 10:23 AM
Annie has a nervous breakdown... Eric helps her through it.
I think a more-likely scenario would be: Annie has a nervous breakdown...nobody notices.
#20
Posted Jun 3, 2005 @ 11:58 AM
Or: Annie has a nervous breakdown, everyone thinks she's more rational than before.I think a more-likely scenario would be: Annie has a nervous breakdown...nobody notices.Annie has a nervous breakdown... Eric helps her through it.
Edited by tothemax, Jun 3, 2005 @ 12:09 PM.
#21
Posted Jun 4, 2005 @ 11:37 AM
Namely, she managed to thoroughly piss off people who actually LIKE this show.
Think about it: Simon became a player(or, at least, Brenda's idea of a player...), which pissed off all the remaining Conservative Christian viewers that didn't bolt when Matt married a Jew. True, it was fun for us, but unfortunately it didn't stay that way.
Lucy and Kevin fulfilled the tweeners' fantasies by squeezing out a baby(and in the process, throroughly irritating older fans who actually have given birth by depicting it as no more difficult than taking a quick crap)...and then ticked them all off by refusing to move out, therefore spoiling the other main point of all those Kevin&Lucy4EVA fanfics that used to sprout like mushrooms elsewhere. And now they're all GONE! Poor tweeners; their desires teased and then let down so hard...
Matt came back...and proceeded to do absolutely nothing except stick his greasy-haired nose in everyone else's plots. Disappointment abounded.
And then there was "Red Socks", an episode so awful that even diehard fans snapped it off halfway through. They're still complaining about it on other sites.
And then there was Brenda's biggest blunder of all:Mary. Brenda obviously misjudged why the remaining fans like this show: they love the CHARACTERS(I'm not going to kill any brain cells trying to figure out why), not really the WRITING.
They wanted Mary to come back, not to be exiled forever. But. Brenda's desire for revenge must be sated, and so Mary has been cast out of the Camverse for good--completely dashing the fans' hopes and pissing off everyone.
How mad are they? Even TVTome's resident 7H reviewers---who used to be ardent champions of the show---have done a 180 and can barely tolerate it; one of them seems to have bolted for good.
Ratings are close to an all-time low, and the media is ignoring the show more than ever. If you saw all those TV Guide features on this year's season finales, 7H was completely snubbed except for a tiny "close-up" on the last ep. Looks like being TV's "longest running" family show(Does Bonanza no longer qualify as "family"?) doesn't mean squat.
What happened to Hans The Bold?
#22
Posted Jun 4, 2005 @ 9:19 PM
#23
Posted Jun 5, 2005 @ 8:45 AM
...And then they go to a dump next door that of course has never been seen and the tweenies left for Bufflo.
I was going to just leave a big word but then I saw this sentence. Serious kudos to Readster.
#24
Posted Jun 5, 2005 @ 10:27 AM
Now, we all know that, once you get married, you should live with her parents for months at a time. And we all know that you should purchase a house that gives the frickin CamPound a run for it's (collection plate) money, only to have your Wife (sorry, I just threw up a little in my mouth-Lucy, Wife! nooooo!) decide it's just yucky, then sell it back to a sweet individual known as Old Man With Whom I've Just Had The Most Bizarre Conversation Of All Time With. And we all know that you get to bitch to your Wife about how hard it is, even though you do nothing to contribute* and you get to "sing" really lame ass songs.
I mean, DUH! We ALL KNEW THAT! So what did 7th Heaven teach us this season?
Once you get married, you must become interested......no....obsessed with the non-sex life of your Sister in Law. And that is regardless of how young she is, or whether or not she requests your assistance. No matter what she might be doing at that specific time, be it pretending to sing, trying to dress "cool"# or, dare I say, "talking" on the phone after her date, just stop her, sit her down and have a good long talk about being sexually active and why it is bad. I mean, dude, you're married now. It's not like you have your OWN family to worry about.
Oh yeah, I also learned that The GlenOak Theatre has somewhat of a cool usher staff.
*Um, no. Just bringing home a paycheck does NOT constitute a contribution in and of itself. Granted, we all know this, AND Lucy wouldn't know what a job was if it jumped up and bit her on the butt, however-Kevin gets on her about all kinds of stupid crap ("Where are my shirts?") He was a dick before they got married and I don't see how it's gotten any better.
#I guarantee that, next season, Ruthie will be in those really tight pants with the words on the butt. Brenda probably saw them in the mall and thought, "How disgusting! I should have MR wear them to boost ratings!" Knowing this show, Ruthie will have either "Christ" or "Abstain" going across her rear end.
I can't wait for next season. For this, I should probably be shot.
#25
Posted Jun 5, 2005 @ 12:46 PM
I can't wait for next season. For this, I should probably be shot.
So good to know I'm not alone!
#26
Posted Jun 5, 2005 @ 2:46 PM
#27
Posted Jun 5, 2005 @ 2:52 PM
With these t-shirts, no doubt. The Camdens would totally dig that "My Father is Watching" one.Knowing this show, Ruthie will have either "Christ" or "Abstain" going across her rear end.
#28
Posted Jun 5, 2005 @ 5:07 PM
With these t-shirts, no doubt.
I really, really, really, hope this is just a sick joke.
#29
Posted Jun 5, 2005 @ 5:19 PM
#30
Posted Jun 5, 2005 @ 6:27 PM
*And when I say interesting, I mean it in a disgusting way.







