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[quote=Anonymous]Re: ad libbing

You will hear it when the scene is laying the ground for the real  story line-for instance everyone getting ready in the kitchen to go to school and work, the whole family at the parent's house for dinner. They are supposed to interject natural lines with no meaning- just normal family stuff- they are supposed to talk over each other, interrupt, say things about food, etc. Because it is contrived is sounds awkward.

I guess the show is trying to showcase real issues in a family, and that is the appeal of it. But, perhaps the problem is that no one family has all these things at once and the issues are rushed  and come to resolution too quickly which makes the show lose its credibility. For those of us who remember 30 Something- very similar in genre, not everything was as rushed or as contrived, yet it was novel and surprisingly familiar.

Here we have cancer diagnosed, treated, and cured in a season. Fostering a child all the way to adoption took a season including his complete  acquiescence  into his new family,  a marriage falls apart in two shows, Lauren Graham can go through several guys in 4 shows...(almost gets married, but wait, no...wait, oh ...she'll sleep with that guy, but no...oh...who's that? Wait... why is ray Romano still involved, where are we going with him and her...tease tease but no plot line) See- now it's just become an afternoon soap opera in which we expect all this nonsense to happen. It's very polar, too- there's always a good side, good guy, or bad side, bad guy. This season, we will learn that all schools isolate Asperger's kids...yeah, hand that's going cause eye-rolling. 
We wanted this to be a little more genuine. [/quote]

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