Heh - this time, this one time, I'm outside looking in. LOL!
Yes - I think there are all kinds of reasons why Sian Phillips made those lines sing. And she did. I also actually like the last line a great deal, and read it the same way you do, as in, not cat-fightish at all, which is why the earlier slagging on Madeline's sex life reads -- from outside - as so juvenile.
And if Adrian wanted to slag off on Paul, surely there are more straightforward, and more deeply cutting ways than telling him that his pursuit object sleeps around, cause, yeah, Paul already knows that. It's just too "sexual women wanting sex are icky, right, Paul?" blechch.
Bimbo strikes me as just such an utterly weak and paltry word, from someone like Madeline who usually uses words so well - if what she means is 'you're too stupid to judge me' - why not say it? If she wants to call her an acting out teenager? Why not say that?
But - most cutting of all, if blood was what she wanted, she could have said "you're just like me now, and you always were weren't you?" That would have cut like hell. Or, "I was right. You never really loved Michael Samuelle, did you?"
I think the bimbo isn't "Madeline" speaking - it's scriptwriters who couldn't forget that this was 'women' facing off, as opposed to two characters fighting.
Also - yeah - Nikita's line in that scene wasn't insult so much as judgement, but, man -- could it have *been* any stupider? (to channel Chandler Bing?)
I forget exactly what Nikita said to Madeline before cold-cocking her (great moment!) but I was all like, see! see! they're working together, otherwise Madeline would be dead now!!!111!!! so I wasn't really paying attention to the quality of the zingers! LOL!
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Date: 2010-05-18 01:13 am (UTC)Yes - I think there are all kinds of reasons why Sian Phillips made those lines sing. And she did. I also actually like the last line a great deal, and read it the same way you do, as in, not cat-fightish at all, which is why the earlier slagging on Madeline's sex life reads -- from outside - as so juvenile.
And if Adrian wanted to slag off on Paul, surely there are more straightforward, and more deeply cutting ways than telling him that his pursuit object sleeps around, cause, yeah, Paul already knows that. It's just too "sexual women wanting sex are icky, right, Paul?" blechch.
Bimbo strikes me as just such an utterly weak and paltry word, from someone like Madeline who usually uses words so well - if what she means is 'you're too stupid to judge me' - why not say it? If she wants to call her an acting out teenager? Why not say that?
But - most cutting of all, if blood was what she wanted, she could have said "you're just like me now, and you always were weren't you?" That would have cut like hell. Or, "I was right. You never really loved Michael Samuelle, did you?"
I think the bimbo isn't "Madeline" speaking - it's scriptwriters who couldn't forget that this was 'women' facing off, as opposed to two characters fighting.
Also - yeah - Nikita's line in that scene wasn't insult so much as judgement, but, man -- could it have *been* any stupider? (to channel Chandler Bing?)
I forget exactly what Nikita said to Madeline before cold-cocking her (great moment!) but I was all like, see! see! they're working together, otherwise Madeline would be dead now!!!111!!! so I wasn't really paying attention to the quality of the zingers! LOL!