(Seinfeld) Re: Why the Oregonian Newspaper is afraid of Sizemore

May 13, 19986 posts by 5 postersalt.tv.seinfeld
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Fans defend Seinfeld's narrative structure involving cosmic karma and character fate against criticism from a non-viewer, debating the show's merit and writing evolution across its eight seasons.

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Don Homuth confessed:

Short attention span, huh?

-Purely an inside joke that has been bandied about by non-Seinfeld watchers who don't or can't understand why people watched the show. In fact, the show is more about "cosmic parallels" in a Vengeance through Karma sort of way. Yes, the characters are selfish, and they meet their just deserts, usually in a quid pro quo "cosmic balance." Every single show involves three, or four, sometimes more, narrow minded individuals struggling against themselves, or others, but really against fate, and never managing to learn a lesson in so doing.

Don, you managed to watch one show, and never watched again? Did it occur to you that writers changed in eight years? Story lines always, again and again, involved bizarre twists of fate, not just in what the characters do or did, but what they wanted, and never could get. If you bothered to look (and reflect), you would find that sometimes the characters run into doppelgangers, de facto, de jure, de anima, de rebus, sharing the same motives or circumstances that the main characters have. The amusement offered by this show is in seeing how things unravel, and then wrap together again.

On 13 May 1998 19:49:59 GMT, [email] (Matthew Montchalin) wrote:

That would have been "our" Bob Tiernan -- well-known "liberal" to some.

Very low Boredom Threshold, rather.

Very low Boredom Threshold, rather.

Very low Boredom Threshold, rather.

Sure! Just didn't care. I have cable, and IIRC, there was always Something Else on that appealed to me more. De gustibus...etc.

Very low Bordeom Threshold, rather.

Between you, who feel I *should* watch Seinfield, and BT, who feels I *shouldn't* -- it's hard to know where to turn. Happily, neither can compel much of anything.

Big Question Remains: Viz BT -- should folks who watch Seinfield be allowed to vote? Viz you: Should folks who don't watch Seinfeld be allowed to vote?

My wife watches Seinfield on the upstairs teevee. She thinks it's funny. But she assures me it's best I don't watch it, because I wouldn't.

Different strokes...etc.

FWIW, my taste in movies is even more abominable. I prefer Escapist Fare with Lots of Explosions, all things considered.

Don Homuth wrote:

Viz Razzbar: Folks who watch tEE-vEE shouldn't be allowed to vote.

Must be good time for journalists, between Viagra and Sienfield.

Different strokes indeed!

Me too! I'll take Pakistan and India over Sienfield and Viagra, any day.

Bob Tiernanelaichalt.tv.seinfeld

Don Homuth wrote:

You sure do miss the point quite often.

Point being made was that the media is garbage for discussing this as news at the top of the hour, and had nothing at all to do with people watching it, only what happens to them.

Bob T.

Matthew Montchalin wrote: <snip> Yes, the characters are selfish, and they meet their

Boy another dry comment.

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Thurston, [email] bespoke a deep angst:

Mike Thompson opined:

Oh, yeah? Just wait until Gilbert Godfrey abandons the USA channel for the new "Gilbert Godfrey Chronicles" that NBC plans on churning out.

A story about a man and his dog. Homeless man meets dog. Dog adopts him, and they live in a doghouse. Food's not great, but at least the rent is free.