Re: my so-called life
Matthew_Stevenson@baylor.edu
Wed, 10 Sep 1997 23:10:23 -0500
On Wed, 10 Sep 1997 18:28:45 -0400 (EDT) ly001f@uhura.cc.rochester.edu
(Lagusta P. Yearwood) wrote:
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>ahh! NO ONE here has felt the need to stand up for MSCL? in my opinion,
>it's...um...here come the flames...the catcher in the rye of tv. not
>fitting in, looking around and seeing phony after phony, trying to
>find a place for yourself in a world that you're not sure you even
>want to live in, how painful and disturbing it is to grow up. all the
>biggies are covered. maybe you have to be my age (19) to think so, but
now what kind of SHITE is that? you have to be 19 to understand?
c'mon. i think my so-called life tried to be the catcher of tv and i
think it was decent and well-done, an admirable attempt on the whole (it
was 1000% better than anything else on tv). but nothing can ever be THE
catcher of tv. there is only one catcher in the rye, and that story has
been told so well that it doesn't need a tv version to help explain it.
>my
>mother (an avid jds fan as well) never misses the reruns on MTV. ok, so
>maybe it's a little simplistic and trite (the "hottie guy" is really
>dumb
>in school, the "gay guy" doesn't fit in, the "nerdy boy" can't get a
>date...) but still, i think it is raw and real and achingly beatiful
>more
>than anything i've ever seen on tv. i don't know...i haven't watched it
>in
>a long time, but just thinking about it makes me feel consoled and
>disturbed at the same time, just like i feel after rereading F&Z or
>CITR.
>
>lagusta
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>i know, in my soul, that to eat a creature who is raised to be eaten,
>and
>who never has a chance to be a real being, is unhealthy. it's
>like...you're just eating misery. you're eating a bitter life.
> ~~alice walker
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