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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fast Learner" data-source="post: 3927701" data-attributes="member: 649">It's worth pointing out, I think, that I don't mean by my comment that no one should find the show to be great; rather, I'm just saying that I don't believe the show's producers, writers, and directors are trying to make "great" TV, in a Hollywood sense. They're not trying to make a show that critics will roundly praise, not trying to make a show that will last for decades as some of the best entertainment ever, not trying to make something that will be watched and examined in media classes for years, not trying to make something that changes people's lives and how they view the world.That doesn't make it any kind of "bad," just not something that people will consider "great" for years to come. Does that make any sense?For example, I really loved The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. It was one of my favorite shows on at the time, and I still have very fond memories of it. But it didn't change my life, was never considered to be great art, and has been forgotten by the vast majority of the people who ever heard of it. It wasn't "great" television. Doesn't mean I didn't love it, or that I'm less of a person for loving it. It just doesn't fit the generalized definition of great tv.Great television includes, for me, quite a number of HBO shows (e.g. Six Feet Under, Deadwood, John from Cincinnati) and some broadcast shows (e.g. The West Wing, early ER, much of Hill Street Blues, first season of Lost). These are shows that changed my perspective on either the world at large or on what television could do. They are largely critically praised. They have been or will be studied in television writing or directing classes. Many of them changed, in at least some respects, what people thought television could do. They are, from my perspective and that of a large number of others, great television (ok, not John from Cincinnati, but that's just ignorance <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> ).Reaper doesn't fit in that group. I still like it, though.</blockquote>

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