Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | 76 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT Zach & Gracie Make A Porno
By Jacob Clifton | Season 5 | Episode 7 | Aired on 11.10.2013
Diane: "They lost Myra Gopnik to her genetic parents and they're suing us for $6 million. I promise this won't take any longer than necessary before your ass is out of my building where it belongs."
Q: "You didn't find out that the father was one-eighth Chippewa, so Indian tribal courts held sway..."
A: "No, I knew that."
Q: "Okay, did you tell them that?"
A: "Hmm. It was a long time ago!"
Q: "It was less than a year ago."
A: "I know! But a lot has happened since then! I got fired, I still haven't gotten my capital contribution back..."
Q: "You're seriously blackmailing us?"
A: "Let's just say I don't want to get an envelope with rats in it."
David Lee: "You mother..."
Diane: "Shh. Shh."
She leans forward, but her effect isn't as sad as her words; they're both playing the game in the scariest way, where you tell the truth like you're not telling the truth but just acting like you are. It's Fuck You Chicken, where the first person to get hurt loses.
"You know, sometimes I look at you and I wonder if you've changed, or if you were always this way."
In the ads this seemed like a very scary moment, but actually it's not that scary. There's still some love in it, or at least respect.
"I had some of the best teachers in the world. I couldn't help but change."
Nobody really questions that. She leaves, promising to return when she sees the check, and the partners she left behind slump back. It's not a "hell yeah", but it's not an "oh girl" either. It's just the price of owning your own firm: You know they would have dicked her around and not thought twice about it, and she can't step into their shoes anymore to see it; you know too how desperately she needs this money, and why they would never empathize with that either. It's both... it's always both.
When I took over writing about Battlestar Galactica it was right before the Pegasus showed up, so a lot of the show's fans were still locked into that post-9/11 narrative that sold a lot of seats, in the early days of that show. It carried a lot of our stuff for a while. And whenever the show tried to flip over and synthesize, or look at other perspectives, the gears would always grind a bit.
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