Kahuna Burger said:
you know, I seriously considered reporting this post as an example of the problem with this thread, but since there's already two mods reading and playing along, why bother? Free clue, if you don't like a channel, don't watch it, but bashing an entire (women's programming based) network on grounds unrelated to sci fi or fantasy is creating a hostile vibe around here, AFAIC.
I'm sure soc.men has whole threads dedicated to bashing Lifetime, would it kill you to talk about "Fantasy and Sci-Fi Books, Movies and TV"? I was hoping for a link to an actual review of the movie...
Kahuna burger
Hi, KB.
I didn't start the thread. Lifetime arguably started it, by creating a hostile vibe in their airing of a show that makes slanderous and factually inaccurate accusations about D&D.
I apologize for creating a hostile vibe with my parodical post regarding Lifetime, but if you were hoping for a link to an actual review of the movie, then you obviously haven't visited this forum very often. Saying "If you don't like something, don't say anything about it" works well at cocktail parties, but in a forum devoted to discussion and with a fairly high tolerance for borderline off-topic posts, it's somewhat disingenuous.
Now, if you're genuinely affronted at my remark about Lifetime, which I stole and reworded slightly from an old David Letterman line, please tell me what quality shows are on there. They don't have to be shows that I like, but they have to have some level of objective quality. Spike TV doesn't have it. "The Man Show" on Comedy Central doesn't have it. I make fun of them, too. Lifetime and Lifetime Movies seem to have given up on quality programming that actually interests women in favor of insultingly pandering to the lowest common denominator -- which is why Oxygen and WE are coming in and trying to appeal to what Lifetime originally said its core audience was.
Tivo tapes about three WE romantic comedies a week for me, so free clue: don't lump me in with the rock-banging Man Show grunters because you don't appreciate my parody post.
Again, my intent was not to create a hostile vibe. My intent was to make fun of the network that aired a movie that implied that I am a drug-using criminal because of my hobby -- a movie that isn't part of even their new branding identity, much less their original stated brand identity. I wasn't being personal, I wasn't being political (my attack was not on women, but on a network that thinks that this kind of programming is what today's sophisticated modern woman really wants), and I wasn't being vulgar.
