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hangman

TV Theory Weeks 1 & 2

Feb 07, 2005 20:50

In contemplating how these shows represent television as a medium a few other questions arise, such as how television is represented as a cultural force or how television is indirectly represented (perhaps such obvious representations within the text refer to a meta-textual argument along another path). To answer simply, both shows (Angel and The ( Read more... )

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reverend_dave February 8 2005, 06:18:32 UTC

the episode of Angel was not just about puppets...it was itself a puppet show

And a damn funny one, too. Ah, "Smile Time". I wish that puppet-Angel could get it's own spinoff series for the tween set, rather then the often promised, oft-delayed animated Buffy.

Still, damn fine observations.

hangman February 8 2005, 08:42:26 UTC

Thanks. I thought about going into more detail about how puppets (much like animation) have been ghetto-ized as media, forced into a narrow little box marked "kids", causing people to think that things like the ep. of Angel discussed above and Avenue Q (to name a few) are somehow "groundbreaking". Not true: go back just a few years and puppet shows as well as animation were "adult" media - Think ventriliquism, "Punch & Judy"...The Flintstones initially ran in prime-time, and don't tell me you all thought Betty Boop was for kids?! Our culture has some serious memory issues.

Don't forget... reverend_dave February 8 2005, 12:45:08 UTC

Meet The Feebles!

Directed by Peter "Yes, the same one" Jackson.

Re: Don't forget... soulchanger February 8 2005, 20:25:08 UTC

That movie was perhaps the most disturbing thing I have ever seen.