But what I could never abide by how cutesy the show can be, all the more so as the writers are running out of dialogue. Maybe it s just me, but if you take away the laugh track as the show declares is a funny moment, you ll see the characters are just being slightly amusing, and sometimes just being ridiculous or childish in an unfunny way. Maybe the characters are stuck in the dialogue and the constraints of the show, which forces them to be, well, two-dimensional. They re so well rounded that they can t have any edges. I would rather live with the reality of my surroundings than in a la-la land where everything is sanitized to death.
Glamorous nonsense is still nonsense.
Indeed, my friends look at me funny when I tell them that television basically sucks you in and makes you a pacified slave. Frasier, the Sopranos, and so on. Besides, it s not like everyone wants to read Dante or Solzhenitzyn as well. And when anyone is in that state, great dreams can never be realized. TV will spoon-feed you the conventional wisdom, and the corporations that own the networks sure like the status quo.