Lois & Clark Forums Forums General Discussion Off Topic What the....?! (Spoilers for Desperate Housewives S5)

Okay, I know it's my own fault. I lost interest in DH a few eps into S4. But I happened across this ep this evening, which I now believe was the premiere of S5...

Talk about baffled.

LabRat

Speaking as a USer a few episodes in, I'm actually have a grand ole time with the 5 year jump, and I didn't think I'd enjoy it that much! I kind of wondered where they'd go next with the show anyway, since the S4 mystery was solved, and we're all pretty much over the Mary Alice mysteries. There are a couple of interesting things happening right now, and I'll leave it at that, but if you or anyone else wants to know anything general about those questions you asked, in case it affects whether or not you guys will tune in this season, I'm happy to indulge anyone.

JD

I, too, am really enjoying the jump. I think that if we'd continued along from the end of Season 4, the remaining seasons of the show would have been bogged down with Gabby being bitchy with morning sickness, not once, but twice (which we already saw when she was pregnant at the beginning of Season 2), Susan dealing with becoming a mother in her 40s (read: all the wacky hijinks of Susie locking the baby in the car, forgetting it in the house like she did with Julie, etc.) and Bree and Lynette also handling kid issues (raising and then losing Benjamin and dealing with the fallout of Kayla and the twins becoming delinquents, respectively.)

The show likely would have become more about "Desperate Mothers," than "Desperate Housewives," and I fear it would have gotten bogged down.

I like the fresh approach this season has brought, but I do miss Susan and Mike together. Something tells me they'll be the Ross and Rachel of DH though, and continue the on again, off again dance until the end.

Well, that's why I put Spoilers in the header - so that my questions could be answered.

I guess from what you're saying the answer to three is that they felt they were getting stale. Probably true. But I've zero interest in Lynette's kids as teenagers and my heart breaks for what they've done to Gabby. It may be realistic, but who wants realism in a show like this? Never was a feature before.

But then, I might have viewed it more favourably had I worked up to it by watching S4.

ETA: Okay, I've found an interview with Cherry where he explains himself. Can't say I agree with him any better, but at least he's thinking of getting back to the glam Gabby before too long.


LabRat

Labby, in a preview for Desperate Housewives for this week, it seems some of our questions about what happened during the last five years will be answered.

I, too, am enjoying the five year jump. Something about it makes it seem... fresh, I guess. It's sort of like first year in that I never quite know what's going on

Oh, and do you have a link to the Cherry interview? I'd like to see what he has to say, too.

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Okay, then! I Just wanted to make sure they weren't questions to speculate about with people who haven't started watching yet. I did want to make a point of mentioning that Mike is still very much on the show, but the car crash ties into why he and Susan are on the fritz right now. I actually don't know a lot about it, so it's definitely one of this season's mysteries. I think someone died, or...insert a similar car-related tragedy...I'm tempted to say they're going to start explaining a few things in our next episode.

If I'm not mistaken, we've only met two of Lynette's teenage kids so far (the twins), so it hasn't been too kid-heavy yet...and Gabby, well she's always been a favorite of mine, and even with the dramatic shift in her life with kids, that hasn't changed yet! :p

JD

Thought I couldn't ML - it was at the end of a bit of a long trail of links , but I found it fairly easily in the end:

Cherry interview

Incidentally, I know that TV is a cut-throat business but I think the way that James Denton was told he was out was a tad disrespectful!

Thanks, Jen! I had gathered from browsing around the net that we didn't know what happened to Mike, but that that was something that was going to be filled in along the way.

The most I've been able to discover was a post from someone on a forum which stated that Mike and Susan had a car crash. Both survived, but the mother and daughter in the other car were killed. Susan blamed Mike and herself for their deaths, couldn't get over it and eventually Mike left and they got divorced.

I couldn't tell from the post whether this was just speculation or something he'd read. But it would seem to be the former, I suspect.

To be fair, missing out almost the entire S4 didn't exactly set me up to accept such a sharp change. Perhaps I'd feel differently about it if I'd been led up to it.

But one of the reasons I stopped watching S4 was because I was really happy to see Susan and Mike finally get together at the end of S3 and I knew it would only be a matter of time before they ripped them apart in S4. And I kind of didn't want to go there. I was happier just leaving them when they were happy and content.

What is it with TV shows these days? I enjoy a good dollop of UST as much as any viewer, but couldn't we have just ONE happily married couple now and then? I'm sure you could have plenty of interesting storylines, upheaval and angst while they stayed happy with each other. Although, I guess Lynette and Tom are fairly close to that.

Anyway, you never know - at some point I might end up watching S4 and S5 and totally reversing my opinion (I'm prone to that. )


LabRat

Actually, they explained a bit about it in one of the episodes, the one after they first show the car crash, I think. It's when they showed why Susan and Mike split up. Susan and Mike were in one car, a mother and child were in another car. Susan and Mike survived, the other car didn't. And Susan couldn't handle it.

Edit: I see what Labby posted now, and it's right. It's not speculation, but what was said in one of the episodes.