Random Rants:Team Melanie & Derwin- " The Intrigue of the MeR-lanie"

 

 Team Melanie & Derwin :

"The Intrigue of the MeR-Lanie"

 

 As a lover of the original cast of The Game, I would have to have say that I'm Team Melanie & Derwin all the way! Whose with me? Who in there right mind could deny the charismatic on the set chemistry of the characters, Melanie, played by Tia Mowry-Hardrict and Derwin, played by Pooch Hall. Such talent they exuded,  and their fans inevitably loved them  individually, but especially

together.   

 

Still entranced by this magnetism of the Melanie and Derwin love duo, led us to the intrigue  of- the MeR-lanie dance.  The term coined by one of the great writers of Season 2 became the metaphor for which the couple tinkered on. The MeR-lanie represented that jazzy spiral of a profound love that's beat lasted even when the tune of the relationship was off key. It was the way they tiptoed back into each other's arms by the end of the song, and that was the brilliant depiction of that not so perfect real couple that had a deep, lasting love connection for one another, caught on the television screen, for millions of viewers to see. That's what every girl wants right?

 

So what does every viewer want? That is probably the question BET is pondering. Struggling to reach that Season 4 of staggering 7.7 million viewers that they first captured with the initial premiere of The Game when it switched to BET.  Yet, The Game presses to go on, despite of it all. They have to right, because certain decisions were made. The contracts have been signed, production completed, and the 6th season of the show is now in weekly rotation. The excited hype, or just plain and simple controversy has been swarming the web, television, and social media galore to try and decipher what a season without Tia Mowry-Hardrict and Pooch Hall would really look like.

I have to say I had hoped, maybe still have hopes that the show might survive this season. The hour long premiere proved to be interesting, yet it felt like the very HEART of the show was being snatched away as I watched Derwin act all the way out of his element. So much that he couldn't even talk to his dearest Melanie.  I don't know about anybody else, but I was in tears.  The question to ponder is can the show really survive with the beautiful Lauren London and new comer, as sexy as he is Jay Ellis. My verdict is that the storyline of the show can't match what it used to be, and that the new cast will not have the lasting charm that the old cast had from the beginning.  The show just doesn't have any heart, with the younger replacements abruptly trying to create that love connection that Mel and Derwin had effortlessly. I don't have anything against the replacements, but really, "Players Come and Go, and apparently The Game will also!

 

Tanette