Post by tjaman on Oct 17, 2006 15:47:43 GMT -5
How annoying.
I've gotten used to it, the past couple of presidential elections. Being a fan of "Angel" and "Point Pleasant" and "Wonderfalls" and a buttload of other shows that get canceled. Being a Democrat in a red state.
The holding of a view that is not that of the majority.
And it sucks. Because you can't point to the zillion of other people who hold the same view and sit back and say "Well, we all think so."
The arguments for "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip" are becoming more rabid. I'm not assisting in the moderation of these comments. I'm contributing to the out-of-handiness of them.
Because it irritates me so damn much that a show like this could get canceled. It irks me to the middle of me that I can't say "Well, enough people are tuning in so shutupayomouf!" At this point "Studio 60" needs all the viewers it can get -- including the numpties who only tune in to fuel their ridicule.
This is such an outstanding cast and crew. It's such a grace-filled piece of art. I love most of the characters and I think they're telling a great story, while raising discussion I feel needs raising about the quality of television and its social impact.
It's the best possible forum for it and Aaron Sorkin is doing an outstanding job and no one is watching because for the most part it requires them to think.
And people breeze in on the "Studio 60" forum and gas endlessly that the show sucks because no one's watching it.
No one's watching it for the precise reason that it does not suck!
People are so used to programming that simply entertains them, not that engages them. If it requires any actual effort or conscious thought it's too complicated, moves too fast, really it's just too overblown, I don't get it, and CLICK! they've switched over.
Which is a shame, because this is exactly the kind of show America needs right now, but Americans are never going to tune in. They're too busy not challenging the idiocracy in charge of commercial television.
I've written a column about it, and maybe someone will tune in and give it a chance, but for right now, I'm just so angry about this.
* sigh * I guess I'd better start saving up for the DVDs because at the rate it's going, NBC won't even air all the episodes its taped out of a sense of charity.
I've gotten used to it, the past couple of presidential elections. Being a fan of "Angel" and "Point Pleasant" and "Wonderfalls" and a buttload of other shows that get canceled. Being a Democrat in a red state.
The holding of a view that is not that of the majority.
And it sucks. Because you can't point to the zillion of other people who hold the same view and sit back and say "Well, we all think so."
The arguments for "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip" are becoming more rabid. I'm not assisting in the moderation of these comments. I'm contributing to the out-of-handiness of them.
Because it irritates me so damn much that a show like this could get canceled. It irks me to the middle of me that I can't say "Well, enough people are tuning in so shutupayomouf!" At this point "Studio 60" needs all the viewers it can get -- including the numpties who only tune in to fuel their ridicule.
This is such an outstanding cast and crew. It's such a grace-filled piece of art. I love most of the characters and I think they're telling a great story, while raising discussion I feel needs raising about the quality of television and its social impact.
It's the best possible forum for it and Aaron Sorkin is doing an outstanding job and no one is watching because for the most part it requires them to think.
And people breeze in on the "Studio 60" forum and gas endlessly that the show sucks because no one's watching it.
No one's watching it for the precise reason that it does not suck!
People are so used to programming that simply entertains them, not that engages them. If it requires any actual effort or conscious thought it's too complicated, moves too fast, really it's just too overblown, I don't get it, and CLICK! they've switched over.
Which is a shame, because this is exactly the kind of show America needs right now, but Americans are never going to tune in. They're too busy not challenging the idiocracy in charge of commercial television.
I've written a column about it, and maybe someone will tune in and give it a chance, but for right now, I'm just so angry about this.
* sigh * I guess I'd better start saving up for the DVDs because at the rate it's going, NBC won't even air all the episodes its taped out of a sense of charity.