(This article is mainly about hit TV show The Simpsons. Bare with me.)
I watch television in a very simple way. I find a show that looks vaguely interesting, sit down, watch it, and then keep watching until the show has finished it's airtime. I believe that's how the majority of people like to watch televisions.
The thing is, I have a blog about television. This means, sometimes, I will watch a show with a critical eye. This is also how others watch television is they are a TV critic or if they too blog about television. This is also an acceptable varient.
What I don't understand are the people who mass together on the internet to scutinise every second of the show's continuity. The most-talked about show is Doctor Who. I like watching Doctor Who; it's reasonably entertaining. What I'm not going to do is complain that a recent boxset of the show involving the Pertwee adventure Doctor Who and the Silurians uses the correct title of Doctor Who and the Silurians. Many people complained when Christopher Ecclestone was credited as Doctor Who because "the character's actual name is The Doctor". David Tennant was one of these people. Shame on you, David Tennant.
That's one end of the scale. The other end of the scale are fans of The Simpsons. Earlier this week, FOX aired a brilliant episode titled That 90's Show. It was a flashback to before Bart was born about how Homer and Marge had troubles in their relationship before they got married. I found it hilarous because I grew up in the 90's, and identified the stabs at culture of that era. However, a lot of people are complaining that this episode was even allowed to air. Why? Because it 'deleted 20-years worth of continuity'.
So?
The fact that the characters don't age doesn't delete continuity? The fact that it's a cartoon? The fact that they're all yellow?
I realised that The Simpsons wasn't a drama series to be taken seriously when I was quite young. Probably after the first episode I ever watched. But it really conerns me to see a lot of people trash this episode because it completely ignores the fact that Homer and Marge met in the early 70's. These type of people don't seem to realise that this would make them in their late 50's, and that Bart should be 30 by now. It's not even the young people on the internet that think this, TV Critic Robert Canning thinks so too. Grow up, Robert.
I think ignoring this type of person is for the best. Enjoy watching TV, everyone!
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Do you suppose, though, that people would mind so much about this if The Simpsons were still any good? I think if it were still a terrific show, there wouldn't be such a backlash against them creating a new backstory for the new generation of viewers. (There'd be some, of course, among nerds. But less.) Instead, people just see it as a show that it would be disrespectful to the work of shadows to call a shadow of its former self, taking a giant crap all over its heritage when it should have gone out on a high quite a few years ago.
Not Sure if I missed a pun but I think you should have a look at:
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/bare.html
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