Do you remember Jockey Ewing? MacGyver? Or K.I.T.T., the speaking-jumping car? Of course you do! We all do, because TV series are part of our life even if we don't want to pay attention to it. We wait Wednesdays to watch House, or Desperate Housewives or... whatever series there are.
Is it a problem? No, of course not! (Actually... yes, it is, according to psychologists, addiction and stuff... but who cares?) We all love TV series and if someone shows us a picture of David Hasselhoff, I'm sure the first thing that comes into our minds isn't one of his fabulous songs in German, however, I'm sure we all adore him for those. The first thing we remember is him running after a black car, from a bomb, into the sea, or towards something really-really dangerous. Saving the blonde. Putting in jail who deserves it... Or, of course destroying GOLIATH or KARR (I just loved those episodes! :D ).
Some of us like CSI or others like Sex and the City, L, or Queer as Folk... Dexter... Prison Break... Heroes... and much more. It's a part of our culture. (Sadly or not, I don't know...) Some of us like the Highlander series (am I right, Dóri? :) It's for you: )
Well, saving a brother, the world, a blonde, someone from a shark, a car, an earthquake, with a blonde, from a blonde, decapitating each other, joking on each other, or whatever the topic of the TV series are, watching them is always fun. There are funny English, witty American sitcoms, or horror anthologies: doesn't matter. If the protagonist is handsome and his girlfriend is sexy, it must be successful.
After all I don't know why series are so successful. It must be something dealing with psychology I think. But who cares? Until the world is suffering by the evil Lex Luthor we mustn't wait and think about this silly stuff!
Is it a problem? No, of course not! (Actually... yes, it is, according to psychologists, addiction and stuff... but who cares?) We all love TV series and if someone shows us a picture of David Hasselhoff, I'm sure the first thing that comes into our minds isn't one of his fabulous songs in German, however, I'm sure we all adore him for those. The first thing we remember is him running after a black car, from a bomb, into the sea, or towards something really-really dangerous. Saving the blonde. Putting in jail who deserves it... Or, of course destroying GOLIATH or KARR (I just loved those episodes! :D ).
Some of us like CSI or others like Sex and the City, L, or Queer as Folk... Dexter... Prison Break... Heroes... and much more. It's a part of our culture. (Sadly or not, I don't know...) Some of us like the Highlander series (am I right, Dóri? :) It's for you: )
Well, saving a brother, the world, a blonde, someone from a shark, a car, an earthquake, with a blonde, from a blonde, decapitating each other, joking on each other, or whatever the topic of the TV series are, watching them is always fun. There are funny English, witty American sitcoms, or horror anthologies: doesn't matter. If the protagonist is handsome and his girlfriend is sexy, it must be successful.
After all I don't know why series are so successful. It must be something dealing with psychology I think. But who cares? Until the world is suffering by the evil Lex Luthor we mustn't wait and think about this silly stuff!
HELP! No. 7 is coming!
Yeah, Lex Luthor was definitely one of the meanest bad guys ever. But I'm sure Batman can save the world. Oh, no, it is Superman in this case. Gosh, it's so confusing... Anyway, MacGyver would certainly find a solution - maybe he was the inventor of K.I.T.T., who knows? :) BTW, he was my other crush apart from Duncan MacLeod ;)
ReplyDeleteAnd maybe one day you will put all this insight to work and develop your first script?
ReplyDeletebonus points for acknowledging things like the l word and queer as folk... you're something else, man.
ReplyDeletethe most common trick for series to be succesful is this: they promise the same and/or similar highs, conflicts, characters, situations and the results and resolving of all that jazz from week to week so you never have to be disappointed by them.