Ok that was cute and all, but also what the hell Druck. this is going to be my one rant post about this because that last clip disappointed me so much, and then I will try my hardest not to come back to this again.
Why was it only three minutes long. Why. Why was today only 5 minutes long. This was supposed to send him off in a way that ties up loose ends and shows how his story is continuing, not whatever that was. Honestly I swear the writers this season were scared of writing actual dialogue. How many conversations did we have to watch Matteo and David have without being able to hear them? They wrote like 3 instances of good conversation and just noped out of the rest. It just feels really frustrating and kind of lazy. Like put in an actual conversation if you want to set up the fact that Matteo will continue to exist tomorrow, don’t leave me to try to extrapolate how he’s doing based off of 5 words and one noticeable shift in facial expression.
I mean seriously, it’s not like there was a lack of content that forced them to make the scene small. They spent all season setting up Sam and Abdi, now with no follow through. They didn’t do the weed scene even with AMPLE context from the beginning of the season. Matteo didn’t get to talk about David. We didn’t get to see any more of David’s dynamic with the boys. We didn’t get to see David and Matteo talk about life after graduation, which could have paralleled the little bit of conversation we DID see when they hung out the first time. They showed us a glimpse of them dancing but didn’t linger, when I’m sure everyone would have enjoyed that. They could have given us a hint as to how close Jonas and Hanna are to getting back together. The moment in the kitchen without the boys was always cute with evak but with Matteo and David they could have really gone somewhere with it, even with just a few lines between them, alone, showing both of them coming down from all the events of the past month. There was plenty. of opportunities. to expand. the clip.
Instead we got 5 minutes. All day. You know how they gave us so much freaking instagram content during the party? As great as it was, why didn’t they show some of that on screen? I can’t say for sure but I don’t think any of David’s art was shown in the clip? And if it was it wasn’t made clear where it came from. After this whole week kinda being focused on David realizing he has a support system and a people, that could have been a great way to really hammer it home! Just have someone compliment him on the art in the middle of the party! 1-2 lines, 30 seconds max, and you’re done! This clip felt like they ran out of time in the episode but Druck doesn’t have set times. Why did last season get 30 minute episodes and then this season, even when the occasion really really calls for it, they don’t even give us a good final clip that would have pushed the episode past the 23 minute mark. It’s like that one bad editor who was apparently in charge of week 8 escaped again and got ahold of todays clips.
Ugh I’m just frustrated. There was so much potential for this final clip and I feel like it was just squandered and I don’t know why. It’s not even like they made an ill-advised decision to ignore certain things in order to draw the focus to other areas, they just didn’t address anything. David and Matteo cuddled. Matteo doesn’t know about the future but he’s happy now (you can tell because he looked at David. That’s what we wanted right? A clip where Matteo insinuates that David makes him happy? It’s not like they spent the entire season telling us that or anything, or that there’s any other relationship related things they could have focused on between them). Sam smoked all the weed, how funny. Did David even have have any lines? In either of the clips? It’s not like he played a vital part in this season and deserves a send off or anything.
This clip fell flat. It didn’t feel like the end, it didn’t tie up anything left dangling, it didn’t enhance our understanding of these characters in basically any way. After this fantastic week, I was expecting so much more.
