television
helena (helenak@geocities.com)
Fri, 19 Sep 1997 11:46:29 +0100
> Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 20:03:01 -0500
> From: Matthew_Stevenson@baylor.edu
> To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu
> Subject: Re: TV
> Message-ID: <MailDrop1.2d7fPPC.970918200301@st-moody-24hr-57.baylor.edu>
>
> there has been some television that you can respect for the craft that
> went into the writing. not often, not not recently i think, but it does
> happen. cheers for example was full of tons of well-crafted episodes.
> as was taxi driver and mash. now that i think about it, law and order
> has some pretty good writing in it. and although i may be crucified for
> saying so, the x-files has some of the worst writing ever. it's the
> star-trek of the 90's. in ten years it'll be "campy."
but don't you *SEE*?? that's the *POINT*!!
let me explain. i love beverly hills 90210. i don't like melrose place.
the difference is 90210 *knows it's camp*. and i love it for it. the
x-files is campy and culty and silly and obsessive but THAT'S WHY I LOVE
IT!
(and mash is camp too, don't you deny it)
watching tv for me and my sister is like an hour long rocky horror
picture show. i sit in my comfy chair with my red plaid security
blanket, and, like the two old men in the muppet show, we shout abuse at
the characters. i guess it's reassuring. every time tori spelling comes
on screen, we shout 'POTATO-HEAD!', every time kelly appears, we yell
'BITCH!'. we predict what's going to happen (PUSH HER INTO THE SWIMMING
POOL DAMMIT), we make retching noises at the soppy bits, we cheer for
the villains, we comment on their clothes, their hair (gillian anderson
fake redhead. pah!), nothing is sacred.
anyone who says that tv encourages passive behaviour has never paid a
visit to our living room.
as for not allowing your kids to watch tv, i think that's a big mistake.
it almost reminds me of people who say computers steal your soul and
what's wrong with pen and paper anyway and who needs the email stuff
when you have a darn telephone for god's sakes?
i don't know call me crazy, call me inarticulate, call me brainwashed,
but i love my tv.
as i said before, it's all just modern snobbery.
http://www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/4801/modsnob.html
so. who wants to see an email i sent to a friend entitled 'in defence of
barbie'?
--
:helena
http://www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/4801/