Topic: Anyone else think the Shane reveal was a letdown?
Topic Posted by: ladfan
Date Posted: Wed Aug 27 10:13:21 2008
Additional Comments:
I was expecting so much more from the scenes when Gigi finally tells Rex about Shane. I don't know if it was the writing or the acting, I was disappointed. Where was the outrage? Where were the tears? Rex didn't even seem particularly angry with Gigi. Both actors disappointed me. JPL underplayed Rex's feelings in those scenes. FF who overacts in almost every scene, decides to hold back on the one occassion that calls for it? I was expecting a big confrontation that lasted the whole show and I got very little.
Posted by: cake Date posted: Fri Aug 29 2:51:08 2008
Message:
i posted last night, but it didn't go through for some reason.
i don't like how they made adrianna turn into a brat, especially b/c she was so far from that when she first came into the show. part of it may have to do with dorian, and also she became even worse once gigi came into the picture (i believe that was done to accommodate the rex & gigi pairing). anyways, adrianna was wrong for lying to rex, but she was right to sense that rex was developing feelings for gigi. in a way, rex was lying to adrianna by denying his feelings for gigi.
i agree, i don't like how rex forgave gigi so quickly but couldn't forgive adrianna. what adrianna did was wrong, but like i mentioned above, she had reason to be insecure. i understand why gigi lied years ago, and i could even understand gigi not wanting to let rex know when she initially came to llanview b/c he was engaged to adrianna. that said, once she saw what rex went through with charlie, she should have come clean. even if the wedding was disrupted, she could have told rex any other time, so that was a lame excuse. not only is she lying to rex, she is lying to shane.
rex was looking for a reason to get rid of adrianna. he came down hard on her for lying, but he lied about tommy, he tried to manipulate jessica, he pushed himself b/w jenn and joey.
i wasn't that invested in the SL to be disappointed b/c i usually fast-fwd gigi, but i agree that it was definitely rushed and could have been better written. also, i almost lost it when rex told gigi "it was always you".................since when????????????????? they had a fling when they were teenagers, he never acted like it ever meant more than that to him.
Posted by: SqueezeMe Date posted: Wed Aug 27 14:22:18 2008
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True, it was rushed, but I thought it was a nifty way to get them back to the present, and all I feel is relief. It took forever for Gigi to tell, and I really wasn't looking forward to another month of Rex being angry and refusing to forgive her. They both made mistakes, and they both admitted them. Now they can move on.
Besides, isn't Adrianna due back any day now? Seems like they may be rushing Gigi and Rex into forgiveness and commitment so that Adrianna can wreck it all for the new, happy couple. I can't WAIT until Rex finds out she has known about Shane all this time.
Posted by: Edward Date posted: Wed Aug 27 13:11:19 2008
Message: The show has been so bad lately I didn't even bother to watch Tuesday's show. I should be kicking myself for missing the big Shane reveal, but from what you guys have said, it was a big let down. I cannot believe how incredibly fast this show has switched from character-driven to plot-driven. It figures they'd rush this reveal because they're more concerned with the next cartoonish plot development.
Posted by: Wanda Wolek Date posted: Wed Aug 27 10:29:01 2008
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It felt rushed and anti-climatic. Even the fact that the reveal brought them back to 1968 seemed a little lacking. I thought JPL was good, but the script didn't give him long to be angry. Considering that he broke up his marriage to Adrianna over her lies, he did accept Gigi's excuse rather easily. I wish the writers had mentioned Adrianna during this. Gigi was worried that Rex would stop loving her because of her lies, which is basically what Rex did with Adrianna. So why not just mention the "A" word and put it on the table? I like FF as Gigi, but those scenes did show her limitations as an actress. But I still think the cause of the disappointment lies mainly with the writers. The immediate aftermath of the reveal should have been a little slower and layered.
