Friday Night Lights

[Big Adam]

When I heard this show was coming out and saw the trailers, I thought it would be some show designed for meat heads about partying footballers stealing the sherrif's car and causin a ruckus. Man am I glad that I was wrong...dead wrong.

If you haven't watched this show yet, please do. It's the best (that's right, I said best) new show of the season. The acting, writing and directing is brilliant and I hope it gets its chance to succeed.

I'm so happy that this is paired with Heroes tonight (the second best new show on television). I hope the move is permanent as the demographics must be pretty similiar.

[andlary1]

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I also like FNL because although it is located in small town Texas, it displays the real America.

My dad was a high school coach for fifteen years before he went into another line of work. Believe me, this show portrays a perfect coach stereotype.

In fact, each character is spot on so far. I love it.

[jimjimgrande]

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This show is friggin awesome. I wish they'd keep it on Mondays at 10. it's going to die at 8 and that will be sad.

[Writer7]

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Friggin awesome. And I'm a girl who has zero interest in sports. Hopefully this show will grow the audience/buzz it deserved.

[andlary1]

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I'm just curious how we got from point A to point Z.


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About a month later....



Do you watch 'The Sopranos' because your uncle was a mobster and 'The Wire' because your yankee pen pal is a gangster?

Are you trying to pick a fight? If so, **** off.

[andlary1]

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So...you've brought up another thread from another time and placed it here. Why?

First of all, the point I made then was completely different and in a different context. We were, as I recall, speaking about what you seemed to call idiocy because of small town ways in small town Texas.

I challenged you; you challenged me and I left you there.

Now? What's your point?

Wow. You have looonng memory about issues that don't really mean a thing.

I'm done. Oh, and the mirror part? Believe me, the mirror is VERY kind to me. Obviously you haven't seen me.

[andlary1]

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Maybe you misunderstood me, HBO. I'll let it go if you will. If I said I didn't like it, I either misstated my position or I didn't make a good point, which I've been known to do occasionally.

I like FNL. What I don't like is everyone laughing at small town folks and comparing them to twits who don't have the best interest for their kids. I actually think there is a group of people in all societies who go overboard with making one's kid the best in the world, regardless of whether their kids have the talent or not.

Does this not happen in Europe or Canada with soccer? I'm just jumping on you because you seem to have a real bias towards people who truly are good parents...and they happen to have talented kids.

Look at the Mannings. They're perfect examples. Small towns are full of talent which needs to be furthered by mentoring and competition. That's all I'm sayin. And I just can't generalize. Moreover, some people actually like where they live, even though you and I wouldn't enjoy the prosaic nature of it. Not everyone's a rock star, nor is every small town a pile of crap. By the way, an awful lot of NFL players come from small towns. Thank goodness because I'm a rabid football fan and I'd hate to watch a bunch of stumblebums trying to be good.

As far as my dad is concerned, it simply was a point of reference in critiquing the characterization of the protagonist. It is something I know about. That's all.



'Kay?

[theradicalone]

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i saw the episode where the kid was paralyzed and they made the team get on the bus and made that one kid walk home where the girl picked him up.

it's was very powerful and i remember thinking, damn, this is good. sports has a way of galvanzing the human condition.

[andlary1]

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HBO

Compensating for something else that isn't there? Would you care to tell us what's NOT there?

As you hold your sides at my introduction of the Mannings, I suggest that you go back to the Mississippi days when Archie was just a kid from a small town. The greatness of those individuals was fostered by that "marginalized section of society." as they are throughout the world in every endeavor, be it violin playing or soccer. Oh wait. I doubt you were yet a grin on your mother's puss back then. There'd be no reason for you to know about the Mannings. (But that didn't stop you from talking about it.)

The players in the NFL have earned their places there. I'd like to see anyone on this board subject his body and mind to those rigors. Ah, the chant of the loser: "it's not fair." *sniff*

Actually, this sounds like class envy. Would you want the groundskeepers to make as much as Larry Johnson or Bret Favre? What a silly little socialist ideal that is. When any employee of the NFL can draw 75 thousand plus fans per week, provide fabulous entertainment to innumerable TV and radio markets, sell billions of dollars worth of products, there's a chance he can be rich too.

Many small town kids who are good players dream of the NFL and becoming a star. So, yeah, the story's kinda about the NFL--indirectly.

As for Borat, since when is antisemitism funny?

[andlary1]

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Perhaps the problem is not my ridiculous reading comprehension. Rather it could be you ramble, ramble and make little sense.

Meanwhile, have it your way, you little *******.

[Fenz]

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As for Borat, since when is antisemitism funny?

Are you for real?