Anonymous
Post 01/09/2022 22:46     Subject: This Is Us final season
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Other than race what is Randall's storyline at this point?


He has a savior complex.


+1
Yawn.


+2 and it’s predictable. Of course he went to visit the robber, of course he ended up feeling bad for him, of course the guy never showed up for help. And now of course he saying he needs to do more for this community. Ugh. Just focus on what’s going on under your nose for a bit.
Anonymous
Post 01/09/2022 22:43     Subject: This Is Us final season
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Other than race what is Randall's storyline at this point?


He has a savior complex.


+1
Yawn.
Anonymous
Post 01/09/2022 20:27     Subject: This Is Us final season
Anonymous wrote:Other than race what is Randall's storyline at this point?


He has a savior complex.
Anonymous
Post 01/09/2022 20:24     Subject: This Is Us final season
Other than race what is Randall's storyline at this point?
Anonymous
Post 01/09/2022 20:24     Subject: This Is Us final season
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I used to love Randall but ever since they started the "i have mommy issues and poor me i was adopted by a loving family" i just can't with him.
Every GD thing is an issue or a crisis of conscious for him.
I don't see his family as racist but rather uninformed which is in its own way is bad. BUT he was loved and they did try, even by sending him to that school to be able to interact and bond with AA members of hte community.


I'm the PP who wrote about my change of heart. I think the racial storyline is a good one. I loved William and Randall's search for him and his mother. The interracial adoption story is huge. I think they totally underplayed Rebecca's lie and Randall's forgiveness of her. Don't know how he could do that so quickly.

But he's such a sad sack. There's so little lightness or joy. I don't know if that's what the creators wanted or if that's a decision the actor made about how to play his character. He's so dour. When there is humor in his family, it's fantastic. (Door Number Beth!) But there's too little of it, or it's wrapped in some annoying "Super Dad" excess. Even his depression and anxiety could have been portrayed with more, I don't know, resilience or something. Both of his bio parents showed tremendous resilience after really devastating life experiences. Maybe we'll see that in the end. I hope so.


DP.
Well said!
Anonymous
Post 01/09/2022 17:56     Subject: This Is Us final season
Anonymous wrote:I used to love Randall but ever since they started the "i have mommy issues and poor me i was adopted by a loving family" i just can't with him.
Every GD thing is an issue or a crisis of conscious for him.
I don't see his family as racist but rather uninformed which is in its own way is bad. BUT he was loved and they did try, even by sending him to that school to be able to interact and bond with AA members of hte community.


I'm the PP who wrote about my change of heart. I think the racial storyline is a good one. I loved William and Randall's search for him and his mother. The interracial adoption story is huge. I think they totally underplayed Rebecca's lie and Randall's forgiveness of her. Don't know how he could do that so quickly.

But he's such a sad sack. There's so little lightness or joy. I don't know if that's what the creators wanted or if that's a decision the actor made about how to play his character. He's so dour. When there is humor in his family, it's fantastic. (Door Number Beth!) But there's too little of it, or it's wrapped in some annoying "Super Dad" excess. Even his depression and anxiety could have been portrayed with more, I don't know, resilience or something. Both of his bio parents showed tremendous resilience after really devastating life experiences. Maybe we'll see that in the end. I hope so.
Anonymous
Post 01/09/2022 17:30     Subject: This Is Us final season
I used to love Randall but ever since they started the "i have mommy issues and poor me i was adopted by a loving family" i just can't with him.
Every GD thing is an issue or a crisis of conscious for him.
I don't see his family as racist but rather uninformed which is in its own way is bad. BUT he was loved and they did try, even by sending him to that school to be able to interact and bond with AA members of hte community.
Anonymous
Post 01/09/2022 16:59     Subject: Re:This Is Us final season
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Randall has too many issues that don’t seem important to any of the stories.



Such a compelling character at first but now my response to him is invariably "oh great it's drama queen Randall, sucking all the oxygen out of the room as usual."


I can't think of any character in television that I've had such a dramatic change of heart about.

Door Number Beth, though, was the best scene in the episode, by a mile.
Anonymous
Post 01/09/2022 16:56     Subject: Re:This Is Us final season
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Randall has too many issues that don’t seem important to any of the stories.



Such a compelling character at first but now my response to him is invariably "oh great it's drama queen Randall, sucking all the oxygen out of the room as usual."


+1000


+2000
Always an issue with Randall. Exhausting.


Yes but Randall was abandoned by his birth family and adopted by white people who are not the most attuned to AA culture. It's amazing he turned out so well and married well and has a stable nuclear family.

Kevin and Kate are equally if not more exhausting without the disadvantages Randall had. They are so privileged and yet they still are full of addiction and drama. They are worse
Anonymous
Post 01/09/2022 15:36     Subject: This Is Us final season
If they never show Dad/Jack again I wouldn’t be sad. So over all their cheesy scenes. He was an alcoholic and it’s likely they would have gotten divorced later. He was not super dad.
Anonymous
Post 01/09/2022 15:11     Subject: Re:This Is Us final season
Anonymous wrote:This episode got me interested in learning more about the Challenger explosion. I was in first grade overseas so didn’t watch it in school like my counterparts in the U.S. DH suggested the Challenger documentary on Netflix and it was so informative and heart wrenching at the same time.

I do remember the movie Space Camp and didn’t realize it was release 6 months after the Challenger explosion. In case you’re interested, you can watch the whole movie for free on YouTube and apparently Disney might reboot it.


Off topic from this is us, but I watched the Netflix doc and I was surprised that the kid who played Ralphie in A Christmas Story was in the stands and watched the Challenger explode that day. I’d never heard that before, and you never really see him in the news footage.
Anonymous
Post 01/09/2022 12:03     Subject: Re:This Is Us final season
This episode got me interested in learning more about the Challenger explosion. I was in first grade overseas so didn’t watch it in school like my counterparts in the U.S. DH suggested the Challenger documentary on Netflix and it was so informative and heart wrenching at the same time.

I do remember the movie Space Camp and didn’t realize it was release 6 months after the Challenger explosion. In case you’re interested, you can watch the whole movie for free on YouTube and apparently Disney might reboot it.
Anonymous
Post 01/09/2022 10:58     Subject: This Is Us final season
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:This show should have ended lastbyear


I think Covid/ Mandy Moores real life pregnancy impacted some of the intended storylines over the last 2 years.

I love this show but I’m glad it’s wrapping up this year. Just hoping for an emotionally satisfying end to the Pearson story.


Agree. At least the show is ending on its own terms rather than dragging along until it's canceled, and the time frame for ending it was planned in advance. Now it's on them to create that satisfying ending as payoff for getting to end on their own terms.


Obviously, the foreshadowing will tell us that the Big Three are going to go up in Elon Musk’s space ship (financed by Kevin, of course), which will explode on ascent and fall back to earth in a fiery heap.
Anonymous
Post 01/09/2022 10:54     Subject: This Is Us final season
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:This show should have ended lastbyear


I think Covid/ Mandy Moores real life pregnancy impacted some of the intended storylines over the last 2 years.

I love this show but I’m glad it’s wrapping up this year. Just hoping for an emotionally satisfying end to the Pearson story.


Agree. At least the show is ending on its own terms rather than dragging along until it's canceled, and the time frame for ending it was planned in advance. Now it's on them to create that satisfying ending as payoff for getting to end on their own terms.
Anonymous
Post 01/09/2022 10:23     Subject: This Is Us final season
Anonymous wrote:This show should have ended lastbyear


I think Covid/ Mandy Moores real life pregnancy impacted some of the intended storylines over the last 2 years.

I love this show but I’m glad it’s wrapping up this year. Just hoping for an emotionally satisfying end to the Pearson story.