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- From: eah4@po.CWRU.Edu (Elizabeth A. Hlabse)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv,rec.arts.tv
- Subject: Re: QL in Entertainment Weekly
- Date: 22 Dec 1992 17:03:38 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- Reply-To: eah4@po.CWRU.Edu (Elizabeth A. Hlabse)
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- In a previous article, krk1@pyuxe.uucp (24228-knights) says:
-
- >I have to agree with Jan here. Entertainment Weekly is one of the
- >lousiest magazines it has been my lack of pleasure to read. I subscribed
- >assuming it would be a good source of entertainment news, and discovered
- >that it was just a mish-mosh of a bunch of people's opinions about stuff,
- >often not well supported. Over the last few weeks they have said
- >downright nasty things about John Denver, Wilson Phillips, and, of course,
- >QL - twice. Week before last they were going off on some continuity
- >thing with a disappearing mustard bottle in "Moments to Live." All I
- >can say is, I've seen that ep about six times and I never saw that gaffe,
- >so it must not be so bad (like, say, the travelling Band-Aid in "Her Charm").
-
- QL wasn't the only show that they mentioned as goofs. I just took that in
- stride, knowing that continuity people can't catch everything. After all,
- they do a damn good job with Dean's cigars.
-
- >Anyway, in this article they said something like, The only reason
- >QL is popular is because people's expectations of quality have become
- >so low. They went on to make similar statements about Reasonable Doubts
- >and a couple of other shows I don't remember.
-
- The most popular shows seem to be hit all the time by this magazine. I
- figure (and hopefully I'm right) that if a show is said to be bad, it's
- bound to be good. Sort of the same feeling that I have about the movie
- reviewer here in Cleveland.
-
- >In any case, I think it is unfair for a magazine to judge an entire
- >show based on one episode, which is what EW seems to have done here.
-
- Agreed, but that's what they did. And people who don't watch the show, get
- the magazine and like it, and are curious, will take only this little
- tidbit as information about it. Not good.
-
- >I also think, Beth, that it is unfair to castigate Don, who
- >has done five years of damn good work (on this show alone, not to mention
- >all the other great stuff he's graced us with), because of one ep you didn't
- >like. I know the feelings on LHO are mixed, but I don't see where
- >it was an affront to QL scripture, as it were. It was an experiment.
- >It was beautifully acted. It got the rest of this newsgroup annoyed
- >because it generated so much traffic. I think it did what it was meant to do.
-
- Yup. Caused a hell of a lot of controversy.
-
- >And one final note -- I am canceling my subscription. :-)
-
- Mine was a gift and it got renewed again.
-
-
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- Beth Hlabse eah4@po.CWRU.Edu Assistant Sysop
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