"Steven O." <null@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 14:36:52 GMT, "ottomatic" <spamout@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >3) The "Touched By an Angel" Message Show vibe skews older and
> >allegedly religious -- although, IMO, the show's more liberal,
> >tolerant-skewing message actuallly *alienated* the closeminded,
> >literalist evangelicals who were the target audience for "TBAA." So
> >[JOA]'s premise turned off liberals before they watched the show
> >due to the quasi-religious premise and it turned off fundamentalists
> >after *they* saw the show and what was left was those of us who just
> >didn't give a **** either way, tried the show just for the hell of it
> >(pun not intended, but appreciated) and stuck around as the show
> >quickly proved itself to confound every pre-existing notion about it.
>
> In other words, Joan Of Arcadia was for people who could actually
> *think* -- whether or not you have liberal or conservative
> predispositions to begin with, as long as you have an open mind to
> novel ideas about God and the meaning of life. But people who wanted
> a pat, standard-issue message (Touched By An Angel for
> fundamentalists, West Wing for liberals) would have a hard time
> getting past JOA's Zen-like elusiveness and playfulness.
>
> In hindsight, this would have been much better as a series of three or
> four moderate budget movies, or possibly even a series of novels,
> where the sole author could have done whatever he or she wanted, with
> total creative control (especially in a novel or series of novels),
> without the executives constantly trying to steer the show for higher
> ratings.
>
> Anyone else care to suggest other shows that should have been done as
> movies or novels, for the sake of total creative integrity and
> creative control by the creator? One that comes to my mind was a very
> short-lived but brilliant UPN show, Nowhere Man. One could make the
> case that the entire Star Trek phenomena might have been better as
> series of novels -- real novels, with a sole author, not the canned
> crap that's been churned out over the years. Others?
>
> Steve O.
sorry steveo, the prob with JoA was not that they did too many shows,
but that Barb, lost her way somewhere around mid-S1 and only rarely got
back on track
the first 6 or so epps..., recall the wit and 'tude of the pilot:
"So, you're God, as in God...", and the Jean D'Arc test, re-test...
how did that all get mired in the blandfest that followed?
with the exception of half-a-dozen or so up-to-standard epps scattered
throught the remainder of the 2 season run, JoA became a sad song of what
might have been.
Otto
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