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The Simpsons were pushing the envelope when the show came out, doing things that were considered almost radical at the time. But they are just stuck in time, fo
by this_user 8y ago
The Simpsons were pushing the envelope when the show came out, doing things that were considered almost radical at the time. But they are just stuck in time, following their formula while subsequent animated shows (e.g. South Park) have gone much farther than the Simpsons ever did.
The show often also feels like the writers are just rehashing old ideas, and there seem to be a few archetypes of stories that just keep popping up over and over again: "Homer is an incompetent idiot, but comes through for his family when needed", "Lisa feels alienated, because she's much smarter than the rest of the family", "Bart is a bad student and gets into trouble", "Marge is bored with her existence as a housewife and tries to break out of the monotony". At some point you should just admit that you have done everything you would with a concept and call it a day instead of dragging things out.
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- ghaff 8y agoThat's true of a lot of long-running shows. Even if they don't become worse in the sense that individual episodes are worse taken in isolation, they're often just repetitious and, as you say, stuck in time. You see this elsewhere too. In comic strips, for example, Dilbert is mostly stuck in some 90s version of cubicle life at a big company like Pac Bell. Don't really reaad it any longer but even when nothing is wrong with a given strip I've probably seen some version of it 10 times before.
- DonHopkins 8y agoScott Adams' sexist sociopathic personality and divisive red pill politics and narcissistic sock puppet antics makes me loath to read his tired comic strip or watch any of his lame cartoons. http://comicsalliance.com/scott-adams-plannedchaos-sockpuppet/ http://comicsalliance.com/scott-adams-plannedchaos-sockpuppe... "[0] plannedchaos -21 points 4 months ago: If an idiot and a genius disagree, the idiot generally thinks the genius is wrong. He also has lots of idiot reasons to back his idiot belief. That's how the idiot mind is wired. It's fair to say you disagree with Adams. But you can't rule out the hypothesis that you're too dumb to understand what he's saying. And he's a certified genius. Just sayin'." -Scott Adams' number one fan: Scott Adams. "I Assume you don't hate all self-promoters, such as homeless people applying for jobs. Is it Adams' enormous success at self-promotion that makes you jealous and angry?" -posted to MetaFilter at 8:08 AM on April 15, 2011 by Scott Adams pretending to be somebody else promoting Scott Adams. "Lots of haters here. I hate Adams for his success too." -ibid
- ghaff 8y agoBut even that aside the strip is just boring.
- gaius 8y agoDilbert is mostly stuck in some 90s version of cubicle life at a big company like Pac Bell And Garfield. The cat hates Mondays and loves lasagna, we get it...
- eqdw 8y agoStrong disagree. The farther I get into my career the more Dilbert feels like exactly my current experience.