Just Press Play review - not really nice to "GAH"

[MelMac]

I just don't think this guy gets the show... sure only seems fixated with Ralph and the blunders he has in the suit, not the successful ones. Totally ignores Pam and Bill, which make this one of the few shows I know of that you can see with the same themes now as then.

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(Totally OT, but I have just now discovered that at least on messageboards, they seem to use the old style of headline writing, giving values to characters of 0.5, 1, and 1.5. A quotation is 1.5, because I take out one and was able to put in two letters, valued at 0.5 and 1. )

[Team Blue]

Maybe the guy just doesn't like Stephen Cannell, since he also basically chortles at 21 Jump Street and says absolutely nothing about The Commish (so was it a good show? Bad? Hard to tell where he stands in that regard).

Although he does have a point about the "creative differences" between what Cannell intended with the show and what the network wanted. A conflict that, I believe, ultimately led to the demise of the show.

[MelMac]

Feb 26, 2010 19:07:52 GMT -5 Team Blue said:

Maybe the guy just doesn't like Stephen Cannell, since he also basically chortles at 21 Jump Street and says absolutely nothing about The Commish (so was it a good show? Bad? Hard to tell where he stands in that regard).

I liked "The Commish," but had trouble with "21 Jump Street." I would also love to see "Top of the Hill."

Although he does have a point about the "creative differences" between what Cannell intended with the show and what the network wanted. A conflict that, I believe, ultimately led to the demise of the show.

That's probably the only thing I've read that actually had any real link to the behind the scenes stuff.

And yes, it was creative differences - SJC wanted it to be a lot more like the first season and a half, the new bigshots at ABC wanted Ralph and Bill chasing more monsters. While I liked the monster ones, it's not everyone's cup of tea. (Plus one of the two "monsters" is at the very end).

Then again - the monsters bit did work for "Beast in the Black" so I guess catch-22.