10-04-2014, 01:44 AM
('BoxyP'said)
'That's why I don't think that the writers are idealistic, just uncaring, because they not only use characters as it suits them, but they do it to promote an idea that's either deliberately debilitating or just really not thought out properly, this being the idea that average is the best, and that individuality and intellect should be stamped out and destroyed in pursuit of the average.' I probably didn't express that well. I think the writers when young are idealistic, but when they enter the system, ie: sitcom writer, they find they have to compromise to everyone from; moral gardians+TV censorship, CBS executives(have you seen Family Guy S8E15 Brian writes a sit com, but a team of CBS executives rewrite it.), egos within writing team, actors egos, demands from fans. I think both A and B were brought in for external(to the show) reasons. In reality I think people become more individual as they grow. But sit com land is a strange parallel universe with it own set of rules!
'That's why I don't think that the writers are idealistic, just uncaring, because they not only use characters as it suits them, but they do it to promote an idea that's either deliberately debilitating or just really not thought out properly, this being the idea that average is the best, and that individuality and intellect should be stamped out and destroyed in pursuit of the average.' I probably didn't express that well. I think the writers when young are idealistic, but when they enter the system, ie: sitcom writer, they find they have to compromise to everyone from; moral gardians+TV censorship, CBS executives(have you seen Family Guy S8E15 Brian writes a sit com, but a team of CBS executives rewrite it.), egos within writing team, actors egos, demands from fans. I think both A and B were brought in for external(to the show) reasons. In reality I think people become more individual as they grow. But sit com land is a strange parallel universe with it own set of rules!