On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 12:42 AM, Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote:
> This episode marks a change in the series. Instead of religion being the > enemy, big business becomes the villains. > > Couldn't they have gotten someone who worked at Hanna-Barbera in the 1970s > to produce better cartoons for the storytelling? > > Dr. Kehoe would've gotten away with it... if it hadn't been for those > meddling kids! > I have been getting used to the science lite approach but this episode bugged me. First, it was like a later Simpsons episode in that it started in one place and went off to somewhere else entirely. The second and more important thing that bugged me was that the writers distorted the history by concentrating on one scientist. The writers have continuously emphasized the collective nature of scientific progress. I understand that they want to tell the story of science through personal narratives to make it accessible, but they went too far with Clair Patterson. There was a lot of work published about the dangers of tetraethyl lead and the writers of the series chose to ignore it and make Patterson sound like the voice in the darkness. -- -- 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/d/optout.
