Gilmore Girls

[miriam_e]

I love this show.

And, yes, I'm aware that almost all my friends find it drippy or saccharine or just plain annoying. I can't help them in their poor, sad delusion. The show has rapid-fire dialogue full of wonderful, smart cultural references. It is upbeat, quirky, and funny, and has no bad guys or violence. We need more stuff like that.

I worry that most of us are entranced by violence and guns and things blowing up and the use of such things as a first resort in solving problems... that this might be one of our greatest ills.

Why is it that so few of us can sit down and unashamedly enjoy something sweet and happy? How did we get so screwed up that unhappy is cool?

Comments

[annie-lyne.livejournal.com]

There's nothing wrong with sweet and happy, but there are surely other means of obtaining such things? :)

I just finished watching the last episode (evar) of Oz, a prison drama in which there are few good guys, the drama that goes on is often brutal and gritty, but the show is impressive and masterful. To appreciate what I mean, you really have to watch it.

[miriam-e.livejournal.com]

heheheh :)
A prison drama? Noooo I don't think so. Not for me. Give me sweetness and light anytime.

Mind you, I say that, but I also watch harrowing stuff. I'm off to a preview screening of A Scanner Darkly in a few days -- the latest filming of a Philip K. Dick story.

And the last story I wrote is not a happy piece.

[annie-lyne.livejournal.com]

You've gotta be balanced!

[miriam-e.livejournal.com]

Wasn't it the Nobel prize winning mathematician Nash in the film A Beautiful Mind who referred to himself as balanced -- that he had a chip on each shoulder?
:)

[annie-lyne.livejournal.com]

I remember the "sweet" show I used to love, now! Ally McBeal. Loved it.

[miriam-e.livejournal.com]

I didn't see many episodes of that, but I enjoyed what I did see.

[greylock.livejournal.com]

You desire to watch crappy TV is no less sad than my interest in crappy TV.
*pats Buck Rogers DVDs*

[miriam-e.livejournal.com]

Ooooh! Buck Rogers! TV series? When was that made? I haven't heard of that.

[greylock.livejournal.com]

It was made by Glen "Battlestar Galactica" Larson c1979/80.
Starred Gil Gerard and Erin Gray. It was the one with Twiki in it, with several special guest appearances by Gary Coleman from Differ'nt Strokes.

It's not very good, sadly, and I gave up slogging through the DVDs ($50 at JB HiFi for series one) after realising I was only disc five and I'd only seen one standout episode.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_Rogers_in_the_25th_Century_%28TV_series%29

[miriam-e.livejournal.com]

Funny how a link will take you to a page, which has a link on it that takes you to another, that takes you to another, and so on... In this way your Wikipedia reference led me to a site called The Future and You (http://www.thefutureandyou.libsyn.com/). There are many podcasts there where prominent science fiction writers and scientists talk about trends. One of the people interviewed is Erin Gray, the actress who played Colonel Wilma Deering in Buck Rogers (February 25, 2006 episode). I haven't listened to the talks yet, but they include a lot of my favorite writers and cover a lot of my favorite topics, so may be very interesting. Thank you for the circuitous connection.

[cranky--crocus.livejournal.com]

[miriam-e.livejournal.com]

Absolutely. :)

[sealwhiskers.livejournal.com]

I like the show too, but don't get the last season, (the one that's running in the US right now) it sucks ass and has nothing in common with the previous six seasons, the creators/scriptwriters are not on the team anymore and now it's more like days of our lives or something. It's really sad, and bad enough for me to stop watching.

[miriam-e.livejournal.com]

Interesting. I've heard that from a number of people. I haven't seen more than a few seasons, so I expect I'll agree with you when I get to the later ones. Darn.

[sharpblonde.livejournal.com]

I love the dialogue. I think it and Boston Legal are two of the smartest shows on tv right now and indeed in the past 5 years. Boston Legal has nearly no violence too, so if you enjoy sexual innuendo, bad attempts too pick up women and smart women fending off dumb guys and like legal shows you should try it if you haven't already:P

[miriam-e.livejournal.com]

Yes. It is the dialogue more than anything that I love.

I haven't seen Boston Legal. My niece just chimed in "Boston Legal's good." As I go along with most of her taste I expect I'd like it too. I'll have to keep an eye out for it.

[sharpblonde.livejournal.com]

Cool. I'm sure you can probably get some of it on the web, but it's probably better to rent it and get it from the beginning. It's got Candace Bergen, William Shatner, Julie Bowen and that guy from Deep Space Nine who plays Odo... forget his name... He's nearly as weird looking without the excessive make-up, but he's really good.

[revbobbob.livejournal.com]

So let me get this straight. This show has no explosions?

Why would anybody want to watch it?

Next you'll be telling me it has no car chases.

[miriam-e.livejournal.com]

hheheheheh :D
You nut Bob. :)

Sookie, the chef, was chasing her vegetable supplier guy down the road to apologise to him in one episode... but they were on foot, not in cars. That's about as close as you get. :)