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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9153770" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>Shows were doing that long before Freaks and Geeks - My So-Called Life, as you mentioned, in 1995. Freaks and Geeks just did a very specific setting - that's really what really distinguished it imho - not more realism, which it didn't really have - but rather being ultra-specific to time and place.</p><p></p><p>And in the UK, it was fairly routine to have teen shows which were semi-realist and specific to certain places in the 1990s (and even the 1980s to some extent). Maybe that influenced my opinion of it.</p><p></p><p>I'll give you those two but the others are all fairly minor (to my mind), and god love her but I consider inflicting Linda Cardellini on us to be a solid negative hit rather than a positive - though I did love her in Dead to Me, for the first time ever so maybe that opinion will soften with time!</p><p></p><p>I think expressing an explicitly IMHO opinion (I even outright said it - "(all imho of course)") about a show in a thread about expressing opinions about shows is probably okay, even if it's negative. I get that some people will adore any given show, but I don't think that means you have soft-pedal personal criticism of the show so long you understand it's personal criticism, not "facts".</p><p></p><p>And I do <em>feel</em> like nostalgia is absolutely the reason is placed so highly in that specific list. I'm not saying that's a fact. That isn't "trivializing" people in any way.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 9153770, member: 18"] Shows were doing that long before Freaks and Geeks - My So-Called Life, as you mentioned, in 1995. Freaks and Geeks just did a very specific setting - that's really what really distinguished it imho - not more realism, which it didn't really have - but rather being ultra-specific to time and place. And in the UK, it was fairly routine to have teen shows which were semi-realist and specific to certain places in the 1990s (and even the 1980s to some extent). Maybe that influenced my opinion of it. I'll give you those two but the others are all fairly minor (to my mind), and god love her but I consider inflicting Linda Cardellini on us to be a solid negative hit rather than a positive - though I did love her in Dead to Me, for the first time ever so maybe that opinion will soften with time! I think expressing an explicitly IMHO opinion (I even outright said it - "(all imho of course)") about a show in a thread about expressing opinions about shows is probably okay, even if it's negative. I get that some people will adore any given show, but I don't think that means you have soft-pedal personal criticism of the show so long you understand it's personal criticism, not "facts". And I do [I]feel[/I] like nostalgia is absolutely the reason is placed so highly in that specific list. I'm not saying that's a fact. That isn't "trivializing" people in any way. [/QUOTE]
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