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- From: LB.KSD@ISUMVS.IASTATE.EDU
- Subject: Re: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 19:50:54 GMT
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- In article <C1F94E.9Ip@apollo.hp.com>,
- nelson_p@apollo.hp.com (Peter Nelson) writes:
- >In article <01050133.o78qbm@distant.uucp> edw@distant.uucp writes:
- >>
- >>In article <serb.350@polisci.umn.edu> (talk.religion.newage,alt.alien.visitors,sci.skeptic), serb@polisci.umn.edu (Scott Erb) writes:
- >>>
- >>> > isn't very well-read. So he doesn't realize that all these
- >>> > themes are treated with VASTLY greater insight and wit in such
- >>> > diverse writings as Greek classical literature, the Bible, the
- >>> > Vedic scripts, Shakespeare, and thousands of great works of 19th
- >>> > and 20th century literature, including important works of science
- >>> > fiction!
- >>>
- >>If Peter didn't mention the Bible, I would have thought that he was a victim
- >>of Ayn Rand. The Simpsons comment is what got me really wondering. I personally
- >>think that the Simpsons is one of the best shows on television. Things such
- >>as mob behavior and the hypocrisy of most of society's inhabitants are constant
- >>sources of material in the show.
- >
- > Yes I agree they (and ST:NG) are *inspired* by important themes --
- > nobody could deny that. My complaint is that they don't do anything
- > with these ideas that isn't obvious, simple, and comprehensible to
- > a mass audience who doesn't want to spend any time thinking about
- > "hard" subjects.
- >
- >> The show could easily be called "Young Friedrich Nietzsche in Late
- >> Twentieth Century Suburbia."
- >
- > I would say it's a comic-book or Weekly-Reader treatment of these
- > topics. To me there's no complexity or depth to their treatment
- > of these things; everything is laid out in graphic simplicity.
- >
- >>There is so much depth and texture to the show you truly get out of it
- >> what you put in in terms of the effort you exert in watching it.
- >
- > I think what's happening is that you're getting out of it MORE
- > than what the writers originally put in. The "meaning" of the
- > content is coming from inside your, kind of like a video Rorshach
- > (sp?) test.
- >
- >
- >---peter
- >
-
-
- I think you might be passing judgement on a show you have watched
- very little. If you don't like it, don't watch it.
-
- --- Kerry
-
-