post the hundred-seventy-third, 2013

we're watching this show "the newsroom" with jeff daniels and firstly OH MY GOD this is NOT your mama's jeff daniels. he's like... smart and smarter, if you see what i am saying there. now, secondly, here is the thing about an aaron sorkin production: the characters throw dialog around like hand grenades -- word grenades -- and dance around the delivery like ballerinas. it's word-grenade ballet, that's what it is. no one talks this way, in real life. this dialog is all the stuff you wish you would have said, you know, when you go over the scene in your head, later, too late to say what you wish you would have said -- only everyone here is saying those things the first go-round. and, their timing sparkles like crystal. and, their delivery is as punchy as a sorority pledge sipping her nth chardonnay. it's all down to choreography, this word-grenade ballet, this finely choreographed word-grenade ballet. it's entertaining -- soooo entertaining. it makes excellent television. but, you know, no one really talks that way.