Does it really matter (was "I Hope Fox Doesn't Read This Newsgroup!!")
James Boe
< Any names included in this post to alt.tv.sliders are >
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To respond to me via e-mail, just remove the splats (*'s)
from the From address. 'Nuff said.
First, on 18 Mar 1997 16:03:46 GMT, shad...@vegas.infi.net
(Not Tellin) - and nobody is asking - got all drooly-mouthed
and glazy-eyed and decided to buy a stamp and go postal with:
=>
=> If they do they will just yank the show right now. All of you
=> who show support for the show here should be commended, but
=> those of you who bash every episode and every script written
=> should just stop watching and lay off the show. If you hate
=> them that much....don't watch. This is becoming alt.tv.anti-
=> sliders I have said my peace.
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Then, on 19 Mar 1997 02:45:15 GMT, rner...@aol.com
(RNErmann), displaying a more pragmatic mindset, said:
=>
=> I'm sure FOX would LOVE this newsgroup. Why should they care
=> if we love or hate what they're doing to the show...as long as
=> we watch it, and sit through the commercials.
=>
=> Ron
Exactly, Ron. I WAS going to try and reason with young shadowop
as to how this group is alt.tv.sliders and there is nothing in
the group's name about being either brain-dead, gushy-mouthed
in favor of the show regardless of its many flaws or being wild-
eyed, werewolf-savage against the show regardless of its many
good points. Further, I would have gone on to say that a fan
is NOT someone who checks his/her brains at the door but can
like/love the object of his/her fandom that s/he has the courage
to criticize it in an attempt to help it get better.
But you made all that moot. This is the bottom line: it's TV.
Television. Ratings. As Randy Newman put it, "it's money that
matters." If we sit through the show and are more or less
exposed to the commercials, then FOX (or any other network for
that matter) really doesn't give the southern end of a north-
facing rat whether we love the show or hate it.
For the record, I am starting to find the show interesting. Oh,
not for the premise any more. I am watching this savage and
bizarre experiment in human behavior and network mindlessness
to see how it comes out. Quite frankly, I was initially repulsed
by Danger-Bunny's (Maggie "Woo-HOO!" Becket) brazen flaunting
of her mammarian attributes. I thought that the FOX execs were
really pushing it by so openly displaying their contempt for the
show's loyal audience. Then I realized that they don't know and
are flailing about in an attempt to somehow revive this show.
What we are seeing here is a lifeboat slowly sinking into the icy
waters of the North Atlantic and the antics of said boat's
occupants as doom slowly embraces and claims them. Morbid yet
entertaining. No one will actually die as a result of this.
What's more, should SLIDERS be cancelled on FOX, then there would
be the opportunity for another network to pick it up and do it
right.
James
~~~~~
People keep telling me that I need help. I have to tell them
that it's taken me this long to get it just the way I like it
and I'm sure that well-meaning mental health professionals
would only screw things up.