We Need To Fix Television
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wolven7NBC Universal Replacing Dan Harmon as COMMUNITY Showrunner
Can someone please tell me why NBC keeps making TERRIBLE DECISIONS?! They've already roundly ruined the Siffy, and have an overall lackluster lineup on USA, at best, with one or two gems.
If they stick by this decision, and Harmon's gone do they have any idea how many people will stop watching their Flagship? I mean... Really? They're taking the heart and soul of Community, and they're going to... What? Workshop it?
Oh. That's EXACTLY what you're going to do.
When I first heard about the "hiatus" plans, and they started making meta-jokes about their critics... I was worried we would have another Arrested Development situation on our hands.
This is much worse.
And yes, there are bigger problems in the world than who's writing a TV show, but you know what? The quality and content of our entertainment both reflects and informs the quality of our societies-at-rest. Are we willing to think a minute and realise that an analogy IS "like a thought with another thought's hat on," or do we want to watch people pretend-to-for-real hunt ghosts, or live in a house together and hate each other, or get married, or be from New Jersey?
Yeah, sure, you can do both, but more and more, networks are thinking you only want to do the latter. So, how the fuck do we show them how wrong they are?
I am just so tired of people pandering to the lowest common demographics and doing things like making the nerd equivalent of blackface, rather than doing the work to keep a smart, genuinely funny show up and running.
Stop Ruining Actually Creative Entertainment. You're just... you're just fucking killing me, here...
And yes, right, "read more books," or whatever the fuck snotty, anti-television thing you want to say, but think about this: We have a medium of communication which can reach millions of people at a go, to inform, and edify, and educate, and entertain, and enlighten, and what are we doing with it?
We're using it to make everyone think that the stereotypes that they have about each other are true. That's all.
That's All.
Can someone please tell me why NBC keeps making TERRIBLE DECISIONS?! They've already roundly ruined the Siffy, and have an overall lackluster lineup on USA, at best, with one or two gems.
If they stick by this decision, and Harmon's gone do they have any idea how many people will stop watching their Flagship? I mean... Really? They're taking the heart and soul of Community, and they're going to... What? Workshop it?
Oh. That's EXACTLY what you're going to do.
When I first heard about the "hiatus" plans, and they started making meta-jokes about their critics... I was worried we would have another Arrested Development situation on our hands.
This is much worse.
And yes, there are bigger problems in the world than who's writing a TV show, but you know what? The quality and content of our entertainment both reflects and informs the quality of our societies-at-rest. Are we willing to think a minute and realise that an analogy IS "like a thought with another thought's hat on," or do we want to watch people pretend-to-for-real hunt ghosts, or live in a house together and hate each other, or get married, or be from New Jersey?
Yeah, sure, you can do both, but more and more, networks are thinking you only want to do the latter. So, how the fuck do we show them how wrong they are?
I am just so tired of people pandering to the lowest common demographics and doing things like making the nerd equivalent of blackface, rather than doing the work to keep a smart, genuinely funny show up and running.
Stop Ruining Actually Creative Entertainment. You're just... you're just fucking killing me, here...
And yes, right, "read more books," or whatever the fuck snotty, anti-television thing you want to say, but think about this: We have a medium of communication which can reach millions of people at a go, to inform, and edify, and educate, and entertain, and enlighten, and what are we doing with it?
We're using it to make everyone think that the stereotypes that they have about each other are true. That's all.
That's All.
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Date: 2012-05-19 11:59 am (UTC)Seriously, they've still got 1 person representing thousands of viewers when half or more of viewers' viewing habits are attached to a computer that could tell the networks, quite literally, exactly what people are watching.
Of course, I do have the worry that this particular tool will be misinterpreted. Some shows are less popular (though still good) in their building season. Then they become amazing, and popular to match. With networks often interested in the quick buck over the investment, such powerful moment-to-moment understanding of how popular a show is could actually cost some shows with epic plotlines.
But it's still worth it to not have, well, this.
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Date: 2012-05-19 06:15 pm (UTC)