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jajdude
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
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 Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 11:50 pm Post subject: |
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Fictional TV shows: a mirror of society?
Discuss in at least 300 words. Use concrete example to support your opinion. |
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Privateer
Joined: 31 Aug 2005
Location: Easy Street.
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| Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2007 7:03 am Post subject: |
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| I have never, ever understood SatC or Friends and I've seen more episodes of both than I care to admit. They make no sense to me whatsoever. They're bizarre. I'm not like that, the people I know aren't like that, and the behavior and attitudes of the characters are unfathomable to me. It's like looking at some culture on an alien planet. |
Funnily enough that's almost the feeling I get talking to certain 20-something people. When they just casually label someone a '*beep*' or a 'complete bitch' I feel a kind of culture shock. To me those are horribly horribly offensive terms to use.
Do we really have to go through the whole debate again? How promiscuous sex goes on regardless of whether people openly admit it or not, and hence how you might as well stop being judgmental about it? Or at least be equally judgmental of both men and women.
Still I know what you mean about trying to explain SOTC or Friends to Korean students. Usually I fall back on saying it's just a TV show and not how it really is. |
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stevieg4ever
Joined: 11 Feb 2006
Location: London, England
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| Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2007 8:58 am Post subject: |
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agreed. i feel like that about most tv shows in the uk, hence dont watch a lot of tv period.
If i was gonna watch tv id rather watch something completely totally and utterly anal like Viva La Bam or Jackass which have no pretentions whatsoever.
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| ella wrote: |
| I have never, ever understood SatC or Friends and I've seen more episodes of both than I care to admit. They make no sense to me whatsoever. They're bizarre. I'm not like that, the people I know aren't like that, and the behavior and attitudes of the characters are unfathomable to me. It's like looking at some culture on an alien planet. |
Funnily enough that's almost the feeling I get talking to certain 20-something people. When they just casually label someone a '*beep*' or a 'complete *beep*' I feel a kind of culture shock. To me those are horribly horribly offensive terms to use.
Do we really have to go through the whole debate again? How promiscuous sex goes on regardless of whether people openly admit it or not, and hence how you might as well stop being judgmental about it? Or at least be equally judgmental of both men and women.
Still I know what you mean about trying to explain SOTC or Friends to Korean students. Usually I fall back on saying it's just a TV show and not how it really is. |
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ella
Joined: 17 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2007 9:40 am Post subject: |
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Wow, I wasn't even thinking of the sex aspects of those shows. With SatC, I don't get the shoes thing, I don't get the clothes, or why any of those women would be considered remotely attractive, or why they're always eating when they get together, or the way they speak to each other, or how they come to the conclusions they do about life. Pretty much the same with Friends. The characters weren't appealing, they each had the depth of a piece of cardboard and did repetitively stupid things for what, ten years? Who could stand to be around them long enough to be friends with them? (Okay, I laughed a rare time or two at something Chandler said, but that shtick got old fast.) The actors themselves were big zeros from what I could tell. LeBlanc is the only one who has a personality in real life that is even slightly different from the character on the show. They were six were one-note wonders and they got rich off of it. Go figure.
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Muffin
Joined: 01 Mar 2006
Location: Turkey
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| Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2007 10:19 am Post subject: |
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I had never watched Sex in the City until I let a room in my house back home to an introverted lumpy Korean guy. He borrowed Sex in the City videos (or maybe DVDs) from an equally introverted lumpy Korean girl who was in my class.
He would then monopolise the sofa and living room while he watched at least eight episodes in a row, pen and paper in hand to jot down the useful English phrases!
One day I said to him 'Why do you like this programme so much Choi?'
'Because I have had so many similar situations in my own life', he replied.
Mmmm yeah I believe you (I thought)........ |
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Privateer
Joined: 31 Aug 2005
Location: Easy Street.
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| Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2007 5:25 am Post subject: |
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| ella wrote: |
Wow, I wasn't even thinking of the sex aspects of those shows. With SatC, I don't get the shoes thing, I don't get the clothes, or why any of those women would be considered remotely attractive, or why they're always eating when they get together, or the way they speak to each other, or how they come to the conclusions they do about life. Pretty much the same with Friends. The characters weren't appealing, they each had the depth of a piece of cardboard and did repetitively stupid things for what, ten years? Who could stand to be around them long enough to be friends with them? (Okay, I laughed a rare time or two at something Chandler said, but that shtick got old fast.) The actors themselves were big zeros from what I could tell. LeBlanc is the only one who has a personality in real life that is even slightly different from the character on the show. They were six were one-note wonders and they got rich off of it. Go figure.
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Hmm, I see what you mean then. Friends looks exactly like that to me too, and I see where you're coming from about SoTC. |
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