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[deleted] t1_j6nd2jl wrote

Dull, pretentious take.

Subversion doesn't automatically make things good. The episode works perfectly fine without some "clever" twist. It's a story about love being essential to survival, something like that doesn't require a reinvention of the wheel.

That being said though, there was one moment that I liked and I'm disappointed they didn't follow through on. Frank on the piano, being just sort of OK at it. I thought that was a lovely little moment of human tenderness, where the beauty comes not from him playing well, but by simply trying his best to do something nice for another person. Having Bill step in and do the usual "Oh my god he's so good at singing" thing kind of cheapened it. It was nice to see someone kinda sucking at something for a change, you don't see that on TV.

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stumpcity t1_j6nlqzo wrote

>Having Bill step in and do the usual "Oh my god he's so good at singing" thing kind of cheapened it.

Bill wasn't very good at singing. He just didn't miss the notes. He's just as awkward as Frank was, the point is that he's obviously practiced it over and over and even with the voice not being very good at all you can tell he means it.

The point isn't "oh god, he's good at singing" it's "oh god, something finally unlocked in this man."

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5show t1_j6o3f47 wrote

Bills singing honestly wasn’t that good either

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RealCoolDad t1_j6o74e6 wrote

It wasn’t about bill not being good, but how he played it slower and with meaning.

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