Tuesday, April 17, 2007

mainly silliness

A friend of mine doesn't watch TV. Well done her, pompom wave, honk the horn, etc... Really,I think it is fantastic! Those who are privileged to know her can without hesitation testify that she has employed her time to much greater advantage.

My point here is that her underdeveloped attitude toward the talking-box is understandable, forgivable, and (if she would just make an effort) thoroughly reversible. But she stubbornly resists reform and even has gone so far as to say that the plot to Prison Break is unrealistic. Unrealistic?!? Hardly... an innocent man set-up by a rogue secret service, convicted of crime that didn't happen, sentenced to death row in a prison that his brother just happened to design is the sort of thing that happens all the time. Granted most brothers wouldn't then commit a major felony in order to bust their big brother out from the inside, but that is more a sad attribute to the times we live in than a serious flaw in the show.

For the sake of our friendship, I will conclude that since good taste is not universally endowed, it's absence may at times be utterly unavoidable. As Lincoln Burrows once said, "the quality of mercy is not strained but dropping from heaven to the place beneath is twice blessed."

2 comments:

  1. McGachel: Lincoln Burrows once said, "the quality of mercy is not strained..."

    Hey, wait a second...

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  2. Anonymous4:52 PM

    A strange disease it must seem to not faithfully follow an imaginary (and often poorly? pathetically? crafted) microcosm whose crude caricature in the form of "riveting" drama causes tears of mirth rather than empathy. However, even so, some of us prefer to remain with the lepers- which is not to be confused with being thrown to the lions with the Christians...

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