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Date Posted: 15:36:26 11/09/02 Sat
Author: Wakener
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Re: October 28th episode
In reply to: Gail 's message, "October 28th episode" on 14:40:18 10/29/02 Tue

>I am a huge fan of Boston Public and also a school bus
>driver. I found last nights episode that created bus
>drivers to be "undeducated" as totally uncalled for.
>I personally make $18.00 an hour which is more than
>some college grads make.

But for how many hours? I've known a few school bus drivers in my time, and they all had secondary jobs. This is not to say that there is anything wrong with driving a bus, or anything wrong with bus drivers.

Yes, I have a high school
>education and have taken a few college courses, but
>no, I do not have a college degree. I think that
>David E Kelly should rethink some of his topics before
>he incorporates them into a episode. So where does
>the slamming stop? Well lets see, I guess all
>construction workers are stupid too because they dig
>ditches, and I guess all custodial people are idiots
>because they clean and all mailmen are stupid because
>all they do is drive around all day and deliver mail.

No, no--all postal workers are loose cannons, and all construction workers are sexist jerks. All custodians are closet sages who can quote the entire works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson. All these things we know from movies and TV. We also know that all strippers--ALL strippers--are working their way through college, where they are studying Marketing, Bioengineering, or Accounting. Every soldier WANTS to see "some good action." Really...they do. All members of the NRA are angry, white, male, middle-aged, uneducated hunters, and no labor union member can speak standard Eglish. All gay men talk with a lisp and can't fight, and all single women in positions of power are lesbians--and mezzo-sopranos.

Come on, everybody! What have YOU learned about real-life people from watching movies and TV???

>Mr. Kelly I would like to say that next to a brain
>surgeon or a scientist or a chemical engineer you too
>are uneducated! Think about people's self esteem
>before you write any old trash in your episodes.

Check me if I'm wrong, but if you HAVE self-esteem, it doesn't matter what others say about you. Hence the "self."

>Also, is it always necessary to put such brashness
>into each episode? It seems to me that you are
>stooping for "shock value" and the new season is
>falling short of good acting and good script writing.

I don't know if Kelley reads this forum, but I agree that the whole "shock value" thing has been a problem with is show for some time.

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