"A Trip To The Moon"

[MaddieLovesDavid]

I'm posting up a storm on here! Anyway, I don't remember seeing this episode in the eighties but when I did finally see it last year, I hated it; thought it was depressing and dismal. Didn't David say he was happier than he's ever been in his whole life in "Trip" or was that in "Heiress?" Anyway, Maddie actually says in response that that she felt empty inside. Empty inside. Does anyone understand what she means? I could see if she said overwhelmed and wanted to put on the breaks for a bit while she 'thought about it all' but emptiness? That's a very passionless cold word and this is the second instance in the episode where I thought something was very wrong with the direction this previously dynamic relationship was taking. Maddie seems clinically depressed about being with this man and I'm thinking - so after three years of 'is you is or is you ain't,' this is the payoff? Sure, they were physically intimate but despite the big broo-ha-ha the media made over it, that wasn't all I wanted to see or the end of the story. Where was the affectionate togetherness minus all forms of angst after doing the do? We got about 40 seconds of that in "Heiress" and never again. I'm not saying they shouldn't spar, but "I feel empty inside!" is not sparring. It's...well, empty.

I was beginning to worry. The first alarm bells actually went off during the bedroom scene when Maddie seems disgusted when David is happily singing in the shower - as if right then in the middle of applying her lipstick she's wondering why she ever bothered with this obviously unsuitable guy. The expression on her face was not nice and I didn't like her at that moment. Little did I know that the writer(s) had only just begun to ruin David and Maddie.

David's playacting at the door went on way too long for me and seemed like total filler that could have been used for more interaction between D/M. Like, why??

As much as I like Ray Charles, the two vision sequences were again fillers eating up D/M emoting time. Eh.

However, I did like David in a towel, David in a sweater, their fight at the office, David saying "Life's a b**ch" after Maddie runs out of the car, and the date at the laundromat.