Comments on: The script, part 2 http://www.greatwhatsit.com/archives/1475 The daily organ of the Northeast Corridor Social Club Sat, 11 Feb 2012 04:32:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ruben Mancillas http://www.greatwhatsit.com/archives/1475#comment-43874 Ruben Mancillas Tue, 05 Jun 2007 15:43:02 +0000 http://www.greatwhatsit.com/archives/1475#comment-43874 Not being a <em>Friends</em> watcher, I always felt that part of the appeal of the show was that they somehow didn't really have to grow up or sell out. Or at least they could do it in a way that still made them young, fun, and special. Which seems to be the point nowadays, doesn't it? And the show played a part in this, simply being a consumer of this particular group of telegenic pranksters was supposed to make me and my less joke filled and slapstick laden plot a little more palatable. The degree of identification with the characters and/or their "types"is interesting for me in this regard, as is the role that Aniston has performed for the tabloids with and without Brad. Though this is one of Dave's less explicitly "political" posts I couldn't help but think of his Mercutio with a tuna melt analogy as how I felt from 2000 to around the recent midterm elections in terms of the general public and the perfidy of the Bush Adminstration. Too many people seemed to have their talking points from Rove and Fox "News" while I was running around foaming at the mouth yelling that we were all going to hell in a handbasket. I'm still suspicious that I could be doing a repeat performance of that same monologue if a new and better version of <em>Friends</em> comes along to distract my fellow citizens with a more pleasing narrative. Not being a Friends watcher, I always felt that part of the appeal of the show was that they somehow didn’t really have to grow up or sell out. Or at least they could do it in a way that still made them young, fun, and special. Which seems to be the point nowadays, doesn’t it? And the show played a part in this, simply being a consumer of this particular group of telegenic pranksters was supposed to make me and my less joke filled and slapstick laden plot a little more palatable. The degree of identification with the characters and/or their “types”is interesting for me in this regard, as is the role that Aniston has performed for the tabloids with and without Brad.

Though this is one of Dave’s less explicitly “political” posts I couldn’t help but think of his Mercutio with a tuna melt analogy as how I felt from 2000 to around the recent midterm elections in terms of the general public and the perfidy of the Bush Adminstration. Too many people seemed to have their talking points from Rove and Fox “News” while I was running around foaming at the mouth yelling that we were all going to hell in a handbasket. I’m still suspicious that I could be doing a repeat performance of that same monologue if a new and better version of Friends comes along to distract my fellow citizens with a more pleasing narrative.

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