What did you think about the decision to bring Megan Hilty's character off the TV screen and into the "real world" of the show?
I'm willing to see what direction it takes, but my first reaction is one of disappointment.
For me, part of what I found to be clever about the show are those peripheral roles of the TV news personnel. They functioned as kind of a Greek Chorus - commenting on the state of affairs (usually in the background), but they were "not real". By that, I mean that they provided commentary and narration, but were restricted to their literal "boxes", and did not interact with anyone in the "real world" - unless someone from the real world entered theirs.
All of their appearances were literally "flat" and 2-dimentional, like Chinese puppets. I enjoyed thinking of them as being "not real". They were caricatures of people in our (the viewing audience's) world. As such, the writers could use them to depict how our world functions.
Now that Hilty's character has literally stepped "outside of the box" and mingled with the humans (like Xanadu), that cleverness is lost for me. If the writers continue to show her as a "real" person, who has a personality that is "defined" within this show's world, I will have to abandon what I previously saw as being clever. I can't continue to see her being both "representational of..." and as a realistically (within the world of the show) defined character.
Will they do something similar with the "Rachel Maddow" character? If not, there will be an unenjoyable inconsistency (for my tastes). If they do, I'll be doubly disappointed. Either way, the show might be starting to lose me...
Does that make sense?
EDIT: I apologize for my overuse of "air quotes" in the above...
Updated On: 7/13/16 at 08:51 AM
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