Dear Jenny,
I'm going to move pretty quickly through my responses to The Hills, because I want to get to its new timeslot neighbor, and because I'm a little bit uncomfortable about the whole thing. OK. Here goes. I think I'm sort of siding with Spencer in this break-up/relationship vacation debate. I think it's possible that Spencer has feelings and that I can relate to them. Weird, but serious. I mean, yeah, I get that Spencer is trying to manipulate Heidi, but I also can understand why he would do that, and I don't really think Heidi is being fair to him -- she wants him to go away but she also wants to control his actions. I don't know -- maybe she just allowed Spencer to trick her into an untenable argument, and all she really wants is for Spencer not to hook up right in front of her. This gets confusing, though, when you think about the whole show aspect of these actions, in which case Spencer is really doing these things because the producers tell him to, so Heidi is angry with the wrong person, but Heidi is just as controlled as Spencer and so can't say who's making her angry.
Oops. Longer than I intended, and now my head hurts. Thanks, artifice!
New topic: I am in love with The Paper. Did you watch this? Did you read about it? I was actually walking around my living room afterwards, saying, "Oh my God," over and over again because I couldn't believe how much I was looking forward to new episodes. I'm a little worried that The Paper is a bad fit with The Hills, because in some ways it's its antithesis -- nerdy kids, not vacant beauties; emotion playing right out in front instead of scrunched in and implied; lowish production values (I need to check who's producing it, but it looks a lot like Made to me) instead of that Go Go Lucky spit-polish. I guess it doesn't matter, though, if people like the show enough to watch it and talk about it.
Love,
-- Pete
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