On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 3:53 PM, Darren Glass <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Jeebus, people. It's a fecking teevee show with millionaires giving > prizes to other millionaires. It won't cause or cure > cancer. Get over it. > > Again, I didn't watch last night so I don't have an opinion about the show > either way, but I have to say that this attitude seems awfully strange to > espouse on a list dedicated towards discussing television. Sure, the > quality of the Oscars broadcast is highly subjective and in the grand > scheme of things pretty darn unimportant, but the same is true of > Letterman, SNL, Louie, 30 Rock, American Idol, or almost anything that has > ever been discussed on TV OR NOT TV. > I don't know what your FB feed looked like last night or this morning, or Dave's. I know mine this morning was full of people who did not merely opine that McFarland was not their cup of tea, but felt he had disgraced an American institution. I took Dave's point not to be that there is no point in discussing or even dissecting the quality of the show, but that there is no point in taking it so seriously. I think the assumption that television in particular and pop culture in general can be usefully and entertainingly dissected is part of the raison d'être for this list, but so too is the assumption that it is best not to take such things too seriously. -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
