Hi, guys,
Thanks for all the spoilers. We just finished here in the UK and I'm already going into withdrawal. Grabs Vicodin. Oops, wrong show...
[I've got to say, I've seen Lindsay described as being sweet before, but when has she ever actually been sweet? She's been ambitious, over-eager, enthusiastic, determined, excited, bitchy, whiny, moody, tempermental, fixated...but I've never seen her be sweet.]
Replace 'Lindsay' with 'Peyton' in that sentence, and remove 'enthusiastic', determined and excited', and we have an excellent character analysis. If she didn't have a posh, English accent, I suspect more Americans would see her for the whiny, needy, manipulative character that she is.
When is she ever low-maintenance? When is she 'soft' (though I suspect people confuse 'needy' with 'soft' here; self-sufficient women are often seen as 'hard')? Warm? When does she REALLY listen? Think about someone else? She's always demanding something from Mac. She's prickly, defensive, humour-deprived, and the relationship is a series of vignettes where she demands that he jump through another hoop to prove he cares. He just looks permanently "What now, Peyton?" I don't see the chemistry/warmth everyone else seems to.
And this just pushed her into irredeemable:
"But Mac, I was thinking with everything you’ve been going through and because you adore me, and you do adore me, that you could take some of the seven weeks of vacation and come with me to London."
And YOU DO ADORE ME??? How much more blatantly manipulative and needy does this woman need to be? If I ever said that to my man, I'd tell him to run a mile...no, a marathon of miles...away. from. me. If she had a glimmer of warmth and genuine humour - like Stella, who has oodles - she could have pulled it off, and it would have been funny.
Claire Forlani can't leave soon enough for me. I hope Peyton gets a lecturing job in Outer Mongolia or has an ex-boyfriend/husband she decides to go back to - somewhere in Islington.
*End rant*
Ok, I guess we can see who won't be joining the MacPeyton threads...lol.
Good to find you guys...great stuff!
Ixx
