So I should have made the thread title more specific?
Did you find anyone else that posted similar to you? Nope….it was very clear what the spirit of the thread was about….But you “Lawed” it ……as you’ve done to many threads across multiple boards.
This is a perfect example of you taking things out of context for your own agenda.
You take things that are said, twist them around, throw in some old fashioned “LAW” into them and spit them out….you say things that supposedly others have said as a fact….when in reality it’s just not true….you love to misrepresent what someone says….I guess that’s the lawyer in you.
And no, I’m not going to go back in your jibberish and show you where you did it….you’re so used to doing it you don’t even realize it.
Do you have friends you hang out with? Like buddies?
Not just acquaintances from work.
Not trying to be snarky, I’m serious….if so, do you do the same thing when you guys are sitting around having a beer? Do you take every topic and squeeze the life out of it?
Have you ever had anyone tell you anything about always needing to be right , even when you’re wrong?
The title of the string is TV Series.
I’m sorry if you feel that that discussion should be limited only to those TV Series that YOU like.
Guess what?
People are different, and people think independently once in awhile.
And when they do…they express themselves.
Which means…that on a string about TV Series…they may express something about a TV series that you don’t care for.
Sorry if that bothers you.
I didn’t figure you would answer….lol
What’s to answer?
I have plenty of buddies, not sure what that has to do with anything.
And in this case, I’m not wrong.
On the contrary, I feel that you are.
Does my expressing why I feel you are wrong bother you?
Obviously.
Don’t be so sensitive.
Are you not entertained?
Were you a fan of American Gladiator? You should check out the ESPN documentary.
They meet your criteria for quality tv when they came up with that show
I didn’t really watch it, but it obviously had a strong fan base, and apparently had pretty good ratings!
So again…it was entertaining, which is GOAL of every program, and the ultimate measure of quality/ultimate measure of success in show business, right?
Next do Springer. Omg this is great. I’m going to have you defend every crap show as quality.
Cat playing piano has the most views of any video of on YouTube. The people have declared it quality
Same thing.
If it put on a good show, was entertaining, and it got viewers, then from a SHOW BUSINESS perspective…it was a quality product.
Hey listen.
It may be raunchy. It may be vulgar. It may be base.
It may seem to have very little in the way of artistic or intellectual value, creativity, etc.
But in the end, show business is…a BUSINESS. Ultimately, the quality of any its products is determined by the product’s entertainment value, and that can only be determined by its commercial success and popularity (which, in TV, is determined by ratings).
Not sure if youtube is necessarily the same though.
Not quite sure how much of that is monetized.
Laughing, of course now you are defending the worst shows of all time to keeo your point.
Hey a fart is entertaining to some but who would argue that farts are quality
If you can make money off of a fart show, then that will be proven true!
Haven’t seen anyone pull that off though.
It’s just like…that show…remember GLOW (Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling)?
Consider the run it had back in its heydey.
Crude, vulgar, juvenile, and seemingly of little artistic/intellectual value. Not even good performance art by rasslin’ standards.
But it was obviously entertaining and popular enough to get viewers and make money, at least for a time. In the end, from a show BUSINESS perspective, that’s a quality product that met its producers’ goals.
By contrast, there are plenty of intellectually deeper shows with more complex plots, higher production values, etc…and ya know what…nobody likes 'em and they flop. Should we still call them high quality if they completely fail?
You can talk all you want about how high the production costs of Dino DeLaurentiis’ “Dune” were.
How popular did it turn out to be?
Not my argument. It’s a well-known rhetorical fallacy called argumentum ad populum.
Then in your mind, a flop is a quality program…in an industry that’s called show BUSINESS for a reason?
Just asking.
The business of art. Ugh
Hey listen.
I didn’t say that either of those were the best shows out there, because of their popularity, but come on now.
pollard’s assertion is that they were garbage.
There are obviously MANY people out there that disagree with him, based on the show’s popularity. Those shows are obviously high enough in quality to appeal to a LARGE number of people. The fact that they don’t appeal to him may be more of an issue with him being weird than the show being garbage is all I’m saying.
Same for MackyD’s. Nobody said that they were the best hamburgers, merely because of their popularity.
But they are also hardly garbage, given their popularity. Obviously they are high enough in quality to appeal to a LARGE number of people, and not garbage.
Any arguments?