Real World Brooklyn Ep 5 - Discussion

Baya, welcome to vevmo! Yes, some of us have spent weeks wondering where MTV has been hiding you. Thanks for your behind the scenes commentary on this episode. Please don't be a stranger.

[QUOTE=Insider;47190]Was anyone else wondering when someone was going to tell Chet that TRL is no more?[/QUOTE] I'm sure the producers wanted it to play out naturally for the show. You have to remember when the cast was in the house and when the public announcement was made by MTV.

[QUOTE=Insider;47193]Actually, I had that thought. I was trying to remember when I first heard about TRL and when the show was taped... Unfortunately, I couldn't. Sorry Chet. You can do better than TRL anyway.[/QUOTE] MTV's announcement of the end of TRL was made on Sept 16, while the cast was in the house. If all of this episode was shot at about the same time as the anniversary of Sept 11, 2001, then Chet likely went to MTV at 1515 Broadway before the public announcment, but after MTV's own people were aware of the show's demise.

[QUOTE=realitywedding;47198]I hope it's ****** editing because it pained me to see Devyn to continue to be fixated on Scott like that. I hope she got out of that house and found other guys while exploring the city! [B] I think Ryan's got a lot of pent-up issues than he wants to admit. I hope he gets proper counseling because bottling that all up isn't healthy. [/B] Chet was very nervous interviewing those bands. I hope with more experience he learns to loosen up more. And yes, he looked like Orville Reddenbacher---that was too funny![/QUOTE] RW, I'm just using your words as a jumping off point for some thoughts. Nothing that follows is about what you wrote. It's not a matter of Ryan bottling anything inside. It is really about a bond with those with similar experiences and a natural aversion to people with a movie mentality toward war. I can't begin to tell you how reluctant I am to comment on this, because for me, as for Ryan, this is a deeply personal thing. Nonetheless, I think I get him completely. We live a culture in which the media has popularized battlefield emotional trauma. Having had somewhat similar experiences to Ryan's at roughly his age but decades earlier, I'm convinced that he is not only healthy, I think he is coping with his experience in a fully appropriate way. Many people who have been in combat do not seek to share their experience with others who do not have similar stories because our experience changes who we are at our core, and often in a very good way; and, the transformative process on the battlefield destroys the veneer which we surround ourselves as we become adults. Once what you have been trough strips you to your core and you rebuild yourself, you are dearth to share what you have been through with anyone who didn't go through the same thing. I applaud Ryan going to the September 11th memorial with a combat buddy. I'm sure they reminisced about events in Iraq, both good an bad, remembered friends who were injured or didn't return home alive, and shared a far deeper connection than we can possibly know. As Ryan said, not a day goes by that he doesn't remember. I know that feeling from more than one experience over three decades. Ryan is certainly capable of understanding his own reaction to the things he has seen and done, and quite likely equally capable to knowing when he needs to process those experiences either through fellow veterans or very experienced professionals who aren't just book-trained but have also touched the blood of the guy who shared your foxhole for months. I also applaud Ryan for being himself. He knows he's a little flawed. That, for me, makes him very likeable indeed.