Yeah, I felt like...there was nothing in the VO that was really surprising at all or that we really needed to know, I thought. And so I'm sure the writer knew that. It seemed like the whole point of it was just that Don was keeping a diary, like he was swimming now. It was all part of his sort of project for the summer of self-improvement. I guess if they just showed him writing we wouldn't have known what it was, and if we might still not have gotten it. So maybe it was just saying that the character was trying to be more open, honest about emotion, etc. and it was more about that and more about the change in him than any particular insight that he had in the diary because there really weren't any.
I definitely don't mind him continuing to keep the diary--I even liked his writing. But I wouldn't want it to be a regular thing to hear what he had in it at all. I can take it as a transitional thing, which is what I thought this ep was. It shows turning over a new leaf etc.
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Date: 2010-09-14 08:44 pm (UTC)I definitely don't mind him continuing to keep the diary--I even liked his writing. But I wouldn't want it to be a regular thing to hear what he had in it at all. I can take it as a transitional thing, which is what I thought this ep was. It shows turning over a new leaf etc.