Hang on...
Commercial companies can produce utter trash (buffy I rest my case) but
look at HBO producing Angels in America.
Proper quality programming can be produced, you just need to keep the execs
away from the bank manager.
Tim Bishop
City College Plymouth Students Union
LGBT Officer
http://www.cityplym.ac.uk
http://www.timbionline.googlepages.com
On 20/12/06, Nic James Ferrier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Richard Lockwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I rest my case. If Buffy is the best TV that can be made by commercial
television companies, they need to be outlawed. Buffy the Vampire
Slayer is
the worst television show I've *ever* seen.
Then either you are not watching enough television or you are not
watching Buffy closely enough.
Buffy was a show for teenagers making clear the complexity of modern
adult life. It built a consistent model of the world within the genre
of fantasy/science fiction. It tackled real adult issues like sex and
death and responsibility without talking down to anyone, sermonizing
or being disrespectfull. At the same time it was amusing, well acted
had good special effects and challenging story lines.
You are quite wrong if you think it was bad. Like Keats it can be
shown, objectively, to be good work.
I would remind you that US commerical television also produced 24. I
personally don't like it but it is innovative. And the West Wing.
Again, not my favourite but it is challenging being neither cynical
not cloying about politicians.
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