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

[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.