On Mon, 04 Apr 2005 20:05:32 GMT, "ottomatic" <spamout@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>"Ian J. Ball" <ijball***SPAM-No***@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>news:ijball***SPAM-No***-5C476B.21035301042005@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> In article
>> <ijball***SPAM-No***-BED11A.18573601042005@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>> "Ian J. Ball" <ijball***SPAM-No***@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>> > In article <1112408915.b69cd9c5d60a97b8921886ef1ed28601@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>> > "George Avalos" <gavalos@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> >
>> > > "Trial and Error"
>> > > (4-1-05 Joan of Arcadia)
>> > >
>> > > 5 stars (Dr. Alan Grant)
>> > > 0-1 stars (Henry Wu)
>>
>> OMG! (No sacrilege intended!) That was almost a halfway decent episode
>> of "Joan of Arcadia":
>>
>> 3.5
>>
>> Now, if they just would have dumped the tiresome extranea with the
>> Girardi parents, and given us some insight into what "slutty" Bonnie
was
>> really all about (i.e. her motivations), this might have actually
>> been... you know, a *good* episode of "Joan of Arcadia"!!
>>
>>
>> Ian (But I'm betting that they can't go more than 2 in a row...)
>
>why in God's name do you watch this show
>
Ian can answer for himself, of course, but my take:
1. He likes Amber Tamblyn
2. He felt like watching tv at 8pm on Friday, and even more strongly
didn't want to watch Deathwatch 2 - This Time it's Popifull or dumb ABC
comedies or dumb WB comedies or Star Drek Enterprise or...
The above concept, LOP, came into common usage in the mid-60s, and by the
mid-80s was so embedded and intrinsic to tv viewing that it stopped even
getting mentioned very much.
LOP = Least Objectionable Program. By the mid-60s, tv viewers had to a
great extent stopped turning the tv set on to watch programs and were
turning the tv set on and then watching the best (for them) programming
selection available.
In fact, nowadays the routine way of watching tv in the 50s (turn the tv
on because there's a program you want to watch) is so unusual that it
gets its own descriptive, "appointment tv".
--
"Who needs the big picture? Not me. Hints are fine."
Joan Girardi (after God shows her just a little of his omnipresent brain)
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