. . . the hard slog of the reality is often something very, very different and punishing. . . . Not sure that there's a way they could've done this plotline that would satisfy my misgivings about it, tbh.
Oh, absolutely. I mean, it's one of those situations where you're sort of damned if you do, damned if you don't. And I absolutely agree that just because you're intellectually aware of the risks doesn't mean you're really prepared for them. I think maybe this plotline is inherently dissatisfying because it's a dissatisfying *life* situation, where you don't know if you've done the right thing until you've got five or ten years of perspective on it.
(I also think it's weird for the audience because, while not all of the people on the show are triple threats, basically everyone is really good at some aspect of performance, so there's this strange disconnect between seeing these very talented people being worried about making it, because they clearly *are* talented enough to make it; that's why they're on this show. I dunno, that's just always something that puts me off a bit when they do these talent-based storylines.)
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Date: 2011-12-11 05:22 pm (UTC)Oh, absolutely. I mean, it's one of those situations where you're sort of damned if you do, damned if you don't. And I absolutely agree that just because you're intellectually aware of the risks doesn't mean you're really prepared for them. I think maybe this plotline is inherently dissatisfying because it's a dissatisfying *life* situation, where you don't know if you've done the right thing until you've got five or ten years of perspective on it.
(I also think it's weird for the audience because, while not all of the people on the show are triple threats, basically everyone is really good at some aspect of performance, so there's this strange disconnect between seeing these very talented people being worried about making it, because they clearly *are* talented enough to make it; that's why they're on this show. I dunno, that's just always something that puts me off a bit when they do these talent-based storylines.)