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There are some TV shows that I love because they are exciting and fun. There are some I like because they are funny or silly and make me laugh. There are some that I watch because my husband or daughter enjoys them.
Then there those that I adore because they are all about the things I care about in life: Honesty, integrity, charity, sacrifice, doing the right thing... all that "old-fashioned" and "corny" stuff that so many people have chosen to forget about these days.
Early Edition is one of those shows. I love Early Edition for it's portrayal of Gary Hobson as the "every man" good guy who is trying to do the right thing despite the long odds against him. It's everything that is good and right in the world. After watching it, I feel better. I feel like I can deal with the world and that it isn't only populated with evil, selfish cretins who would sooner see me fail than cross the street to help me.
It doesn't expect me to laugh at other people's misery or bad luck. It doesn't show people thriving on shallowness and ill-will. It doesn't ask me to believe that evil is a necessary part of the world. It doesn't expound on how justice is a fleeting and foolish ideal or how kindness will only result in kind getting hurt. And it doesn't try to prove the world is a "zero-sum" creation where the only way to succeed to to have others fail.
In short, Gary's world is my world. A world where good and right are more than ideas, but the basic foundations of life. It's a place where I want to live. And a place I want my daughter to live in.
A world I hope I help create and maintain.
Then there those that I adore because they are all about the things I care about in life: Honesty, integrity, charity, sacrifice, doing the right thing... all that "old-fashioned" and "corny" stuff that so many people have chosen to forget about these days.
Early Edition is one of those shows. I love Early Edition for it's portrayal of Gary Hobson as the "every man" good guy who is trying to do the right thing despite the long odds against him. It's everything that is good and right in the world. After watching it, I feel better. I feel like I can deal with the world and that it isn't only populated with evil, selfish cretins who would sooner see me fail than cross the street to help me.
It doesn't expect me to laugh at other people's misery or bad luck. It doesn't show people thriving on shallowness and ill-will. It doesn't ask me to believe that evil is a necessary part of the world. It doesn't expound on how justice is a fleeting and foolish ideal or how kindness will only result in kind getting hurt. And it doesn't try to prove the world is a "zero-sum" creation where the only way to succeed to to have others fail.
In short, Gary's world is my world. A world where good and right are more than ideas, but the basic foundations of life. It's a place where I want to live. And a place I want my daughter to live in.
A world I hope I help create and maintain.
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Date: 2004-07-09 06:53 am (UTC)From:I'm doing my best to live in that world, too. Where people are, to put it at it's most basic, kind.
I haven't seen any sign of EE on dvd yet... sigh....
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Date: 2004-07-13 10:36 pm (UTC)From:I know. I'm hoping that it gets put on a schedule, most series seem to sell well. I could use a good copy of it, my tapes don't look the best.
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Date: 2004-07-10 05:08 pm (UTC)From:I wish it were my world. Unfortunately, I'm chained to another quite different place.
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Date: 2004-07-13 10:44 pm (UTC)From:I'll toss you a hacksaw for the chains, if you think it would help...