Every half hour stolen by a soap is a half hour you could have spent doing something for yourself, seizing the gift of life, sharing it with others in a meaningful way, instead of allowing some stranger to spend it for you.
The same can be said of any t.v. show. Including those that you so religiously follow. Trust me, CSI (either of them) are no more "real" than any soap out there. This has been confirmed for law students (one of whom is a close friend of mine) by professors who are lawyers, judges, cops. While I may not trust the legal profession, I will say that from my experience with the justice system, there is no technology out there that even comes close to those faerytales they show on dramas like CSI or any of those other shows.
I don't watch soaps. I read books. I write. I'm online during the Soap Hour on TV, chatting to real people whom I love instead of staring goggle eyed at fictional people on the screen. Judge me on that.
You tape various shows and watch them religiously. You share each detail of each episode with me. You get as jazzed about what's on those shows as some people get over soaps. And before you react, I'm not judging you for this. Those shows are your interests. I think it's great you like them. Just allow others to like what they like, even if it's something you don't care for. You may read and be online during the soap time. But you also have t.v. shows you like and watch. As is your right to!
Two weeks later, out of nowhere, he recants. He's straight all along. Not only that ... he never was gay in the first place. The gay scene was apocryphal.
Who's being hypocritical?
He's an actor. That's his job. To play a role and make it believable. He doesn't have to be gay to play a gay role. In fact, a show that I very much like now Queer as Folk has just such a person. One of the main gay guys is played by a very straight man. He's a great actor. He kisses other men in the show (very convincingly) and is in scenes that depict very homosexual sex. Also very convincing. He's straight. I don't think that anyone holds that against him. In fact, if anything, he's to be respected and commended for not being so insecure about his own lifestyle to be afraid to play a very homosexual character. He's an actor. He's playing a character.
The TV companies certainly would not. I object to them taking money I give them, and wasting it on stuff I do not want to watch.
But other people watch those shows by their choice. And it's every bit as much their money paying for what they want to see. And you are paying for shows that you like that others may not want to see. Not everyone likes CSI, luv. But they pay for it just the same as you pay for the soaps.
Says who?
Seriously, luv, no one is forcing you to watch these shows. Would you force people to watch only the shows that you like? I'm sorry, but I choose not to watch CSI and the other shows similar to it. They're not my cup of tea. There are a lot of shows like it on t.v. So, basically, I don't watch t.v. if that's all that's on. I put on a movie. I put on music. I watch channels that don't have those types of shows. And if that's all that's on, I find something else to do. I don't stress over it. No one is forcing me to watch those shows. And I hope that it stays that way. But it's ultimately my choice as to whether or not I actually watch it.
Or, indeed, not turning the bloody thing on in the first place.
Exactly. Therefore, you can hate soaps all you want. But they clearly have a place within society as they give pleasure to some people. That's why t.v. is so blissfully diverse. To please all the viewers at some point or another. That's the beauty of being individuals. Our individual tastes. Means we can appreciate all the forms of art out there...even those types of art that some people can't stand.
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Date: 2004-03-16 07:47 pm (UTC)The same can be said of any t.v. show. Including those that you so religiously follow. Trust me, CSI (either of them) are no more "real" than any soap out there. This has been confirmed for law students (one of whom is a close friend of mine) by professors who are lawyers, judges, cops. While I may not trust the legal profession, I will say that from my experience with the justice system, there is no technology out there that even comes close to those faerytales they show on dramas like CSI or any of those other shows.
I don't watch soaps. I read books. I write. I'm online during the Soap Hour on TV, chatting to real people whom I love instead of staring goggle eyed at fictional people on the screen. Judge me on that.
You tape various shows and watch them religiously. You share each detail of each episode with me. You get as jazzed about what's on those shows as some people get over soaps. And before you react, I'm not judging you for this. Those shows are your interests. I think it's great you like them. Just allow others to like what they like, even if it's something you don't care for. You may read and be online during the soap time. But you also have t.v. shows you like and watch. As is your right to!
Two weeks later, out of nowhere, he recants. He's straight all along. Not only that ... he never was gay in the first place. The gay scene was apocryphal.
Who's being hypocritical?
He's an actor. That's his job. To play a role and make it believable. He doesn't have to be gay to play a gay role. In fact, a show that I very much like now Queer as Folk has just such a person. One of the main gay guys is played by a very straight man. He's a great actor. He kisses other men in the show (very convincingly) and is in scenes that depict very homosexual sex. Also very convincing. He's straight. I don't think that anyone holds that against him. In fact, if anything, he's to be respected and commended for not being so insecure about his own lifestyle to be afraid to play a very homosexual character. He's an actor. He's playing a character.
The TV companies certainly would not. I object to them taking money I give them, and wasting it on stuff I do not want to watch.
But other people watch those shows by their choice. And it's every bit as much their money paying for what they want to see. And you are paying for shows that you like that others may not want to see. Not everyone likes CSI, luv. But they pay for it just the same as you pay for the soaps.
Says who?
Seriously, luv, no one is forcing you to watch these shows. Would you force people to watch only the shows that you like? I'm sorry, but I choose not to watch CSI and the other shows similar to it. They're not my cup of tea. There are a lot of shows like it on t.v. So, basically, I don't watch t.v. if that's all that's on. I put on a movie. I put on music. I watch channels that don't have those types of shows. And if that's all that's on, I find something else to do. I don't stress over it. No one is forcing me to watch those shows. And I hope that it stays that way. But it's ultimately my choice as to whether or not I actually watch it.
Or, indeed, not turning the bloody thing on in the first place.
Exactly. Therefore, you can hate soaps all you want. But they clearly have a place within society as they give pleasure to some people. That's why t.v. is so blissfully diverse. To please all the viewers at some point or another. That's the beauty of being individuals. Our individual tastes. Means we can appreciate all the forms of art out there...even those types of art that some people can't stand.