freeform goodness

I can’t promise I’ll do this every week (I’m bad with schedules), but I thought I’d try out This-or-That Tuesday, just for giggles.

I wonder why they don’t use an ordered list (<ol>) for the list of questions? That is, after all, what it was designed for.

TV Shows/Movies

1. “The Munsters” or “The Addams Family”?

   “The Addams Family” — there was a latent undercurrent of kinkiness in “the Addams Family” that “the Munsters” never even tried to match.

2. “The Sopranos” or the “Godfather” movies?

   I love them both, but for different reasons. “The Godfather” in some ways is the archetypal American immigrant success story, only rendered on a large, even operatic scale. “The Sopranos” is almost like a 1950’s family sitcom (think “Father Knows Best”), turned inside out and subverted. Think about the “College” episode from Season 1 as an example of what I mean.

3. “The Jetsons” or “Lost in Space”?

   “The Jetsons”, by a country mile.

4. “Superman” or “Batman” (either the TV shows or the movies)?

   Hard to say, since there have been so many adaptations of both it’s hard to keep them straight. For sheer entertainment value, though, it’s hard to top the 1960’s “Batman” TV series. Though it had essentially nothing to do with Batman as he was established in the comics, as sheer, campy fun it’s nearly unmatched.

5. “Sex & The City” or “Friends”?

   “Friends”

6. “The Wizard of Oz” or the “Harry Potter” movies?

   “The Wizard of Oz”, of course. The music alone is enough to put it over the top.

7. “The Simpsons” or “King of the Hill”?

   “The Simpsons”, for it’s (mostly) consistent quality over an unbelievably long run. I do think that Bobby Hill is one of the most fascinating fictional kids ever on a TV show, though. I’m very interested in seeing what happens when Hank and Peggy realize what Bobby’s, um, flamboyance is leading up to…

8. “Grease” or “Saturday Night Fever”?

   “Saturday Night Fever” — give me the unselfconscious, contemporaneous celebration of a subculture any day over a prepackaged, “ironic” (in the Alanis sense) nostalgia fest.

9. Old prime-time soaps: “Dallas” or “Dynasty”?

   Neither. Craptacular.

10. Not very thought-provoking this week…do you prefer TV shows or movies?

    Movies. Commercial interruptions are a really nasty, artificial disruptor of dramatic structure.

:: Dave Walker 12:09 (EST/EDT) [+] ::

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