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re: Yes!

Posted by: enoch10 10:41 pm EST 01/16/15
In reply to: Yes! - Jax 02:48 pm EST 01/16/15

>> Especially considering the glee with which it was attacked by some on this board.

really? because i don't think i've ever read anyone gleefully trash a show including this one. what does "gleefully trashing" a show look/sound like exactly?

i didn't like the show. at all. and said so. and will again. i think it's mindless, unimaginative, mediocre and pretty much a waste of time all the way around. that - for me - is an accurate assessment and the fact that brantley loves it alters it not one whit.

what part of that sounds gleeful to you?

no one is going to agree with any critic all the time. i agree with brantley more often than not but not here. he acknowledges it's mindless so it isn't like we aren't seeing the same show but mindless can either be enjoyable or not. when it is you find the musical charming like he did. when it isn't you find the musical to be a piece of drivel as i did.


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re: Yes!

Posted by: Jax 11:56 pm EST 01/16/15
In reply to: re: Yes! - enoch10 10:41 pm EST 01/16/15

" what does "gleefully trashing" a show look/sound like exactly?

i didn't like the show. at all. and said so. and will again. i think it's mindless, unimaginative, mediocre and pretty much a waste of time all the way around. that - for me - is an accurate assessment and the fact that brantley loves it alters it not one whit.

what part of that sounds gleeful to you?"

Pretty much all of it. I mean, if you said it once before, why is it so important to say it again? Some people, including the majority of the critics, like a show you didn't. Is that really such a biggie?


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re: Yes!

Posted by: Ann 04:55 am EST 01/18/15
In reply to: re: Yes! - Jax 11:56 pm EST 01/16/15

He doesn't sound happy to me.

Is it okay if people who like a show say it repeatedly?


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re: Yes!

Posted by: enoch10 12:11 am EST 01/18/15
In reply to: re: Yes! - Jax 11:56 pm EST 01/16/15

i repeated it because you seem to find a tone of "gleeful" in it, where is that exactly?

dour, maybe. cynical. maybe. gleeful? no. unless i'm missing something. if so, which part was the gleeful part again?

some people don't like a show you do. why must their opinion be disparaged? the implication being they didn't dislike it on valid grounds they just trashed the show for the fun of trashing a show. i call bullshit. if you can provide evidence to the contrary, go right ahead. right after you point out how the quote of mine you post can be described as "gleeful,"


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re: Yes!

Posted by: BrianJ 10:55 pm EST 01/16/15
In reply to: re: Yes! - enoch10 10:41 pm EST 01/16/15

I'd say many of the reviews quoted by Ken Mandelbaum at the beginnings of the chapters of NOT SINCE CARRIE provide examples of people gleefully trashing shows. Maybe we have different perceptions of it, though, since I feel like it's a phenomenon I've encountered often in my life (from both professional critics and civilian audience members/online posters) whereas you don't feel you've ever encountered it.


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