Well- let's see-- several things-- snippy doesn't bother me, first off. And I really didn't think you were.But I think to try to make a viewpoint applicable to You, Joan, the individual, who is a rare and wonderful, but not really terribly representative of the good ol' USA personality, is to miss the whole point of TV.
(But you really really never heard of Andy Griffith? Or Dick Van Dyke?? Or leave it to Beaver? These are the TV classics- in the same way certain literary works are to society. )
TV reflects not you, Joan, but a large segment of America, an amorphous not terribly sophisticated group, who DOES watch TV. Why SHOULD you count to the purveyors of this medium?
WHy exactly do you say that nudie or shoot em up don't respond? Of course they do. TO certain segments. But I was responding to Edwarda's article about sitcoms, not the Playboy channel. I think you expanded my statement into areas I wasn't going.
As for loneliness---again- I think again you have tried to argue a general with a specific. You aren't lonely. Really? I certainly am at times. In different ways. I would guess many don't SEE themselves that way--- certainly the not terribly verbal or introspective audience of today's sitcoms, but the wise producers tap into many of these basic human feelings- whether they're acknowledged or recognized or not. It may not work for you and me, but it definitely does for many. |
