tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32636283.post116074937337738058..comments2023-03-26T03:50:25.501-04:00Comments on David's Secret Blog: The Worst Show On TVUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32636283.post-1160853867041315372006-10-14T15:24:00.000-04:002006-10-14T15:24:00.000-04:00David,For a conservative, you are way too immersed...David,<BR/>For a conservative, you are way too immersed in popular culture. I'm with Skipper. I've never heard of fan-fic. <BR/><BR/>I am pretty oblivious to most of the fare on TV today. I sample it on occasion. The last show that I made it a point to watch every week was Seinfeld. The emergence of reality TV was the signal to me that the networks have reached the stage of total creative bankruptcy.<BR/><BR/>You make a good point about the serialization of drama. It is true of movie sequels as well as TV. I went to see "The Grudge II" last night, and have concluded that a good horror story cannot be serialized. The original Grudge was as good a horror story as you can expect nowadays, but once the essential mystery behind the horror has been revealed, all the director of the sequel can do is to keep throwing the scary bits at you with increasing frequency. Which makes it routine and predictable.Duckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08852569465893563139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32636283.post-1160773768431031472006-10-13T17:09:00.000-04:002006-10-13T17:09:00.000-04:00David:I guess I'll have to add this to my all incl...David:<BR/><BR/>I guess I'll have to add this to my all inclusive list of Must Miss TV.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for all the fanfic info. My isolation from popular culture is such that I had no earthly idea.<BR/><BR/>I wonder what Harry will make of women writing homoerotic fan fiction.Hey Skipperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10798930502187234974noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32636283.post-1160755258319065772006-10-13T12:00:00.000-04:002006-10-13T12:00:00.000-04:00Brit;My understanding is that most of the Mary Sue...Brit;<BR/><BR/>My understanding is that most of the Mary Sue's (particularly in the Star Trek ficton) are written by women.<BR/><BR/>Also, wasn't Heinlein the modern master of Mary Sue characters? That's why I stopped reading him after "Number of the Beast". I had managed to repress my memory of it but the Mary Sue article brought it all back.Susan's Husbandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02862667802025231163noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32636283.post-1160750965566264832006-10-13T10:49:00.000-04:002006-10-13T10:49:00.000-04:00It's unlikely that this show will make it to the U...It's unlikely that this show will make it to the UK, but I do know that stories about people with drug problems are only slightly less boring than listening to people talk about their dreams.<BR/><BR/>For example, the film of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Talk about chinese water torture...<BR/><BR/>Re: Mary Sue - it's a cliche that men can't write female characters. It's also mostly true. Martin Amis, despite being a progressive sort, is the classic example. Interestingly, Kingsley could write them, even though he is accused of archaic mysogeny.<BR/><BR/>Dickens's women are notoriously interchangeable. But then so are many of Austen's men. <BR/><BR/>So perhaps Mary Sues are an inevitable result of the Mars/Venus phenomenon.Brithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00390560583798960760noreply@blogger.com