Post by mitchell on Mar 6, 2002 14:14:57 GMT -5
you dont think they hate the show? come on! nine years (yes, iam including next seaosn as well) in a row they TOTALLY spurn friends at ALL awards not decided by the viewers! ok, once, twice, thrice: coincidental! but NINE!!! years! that is one unabashedly biased attitude, i say!
and here is why they hate the show: because friends is hugely popular globally, because the actors are young and beautiful (well they WERE young for most of the show's run; they were definitely young in th ebest seasons of the show when it should have won awards; and even in 2002 they are still strikingly appealing) and because they are as many as six and the establishment cant control any of that; in fact it is quite easy to determine the reasons for the nine-year friends backlash: take all the shows that won the awards instead of friends and see what it is the differentiates them from friends; ok, iam a bit lazy and will not go to all the trouble of visiting the websites of the various awards to get the names of all the shows that beat friends to all the awards in the past eight years; i think it would be correct to say that in 99% of the cases when friends did not win an award that award was won by one of the following shows: seinfeld, frasier, will&grace (W&G), everybody loves f**king raymond (ELFR) and sex and the city (S&TC); so let's break this down: messing and mccormack are definitely young and appealing but their show is nowhere nearly as successful as friends on a global scale; plus if you recognize that a show is good you will HAVE to ultimately recognize the stars and in W&G's case there is only two of them and they by now each have either an emmy or a GG or something; the cast of S&TC could also be considered appealing but again their show does not have friends-calibre global appeal which makes it more eligible for an award; the cast-size situation here is similar to W&G: although the main protagonists are four SJP is CLEARLY the lead whereas with friends we have six leads; hence she already has a pile of awards; these two were the tricky ones; in the cases of seinfeld, frasier and ELFR the picture is much clearer: are we going to recognize the funny young and beautiful people or are we going to award the mid-life crisis set? the facts speak for themselves;
so as you can see the formula for an award-winning show is that it must not have young and beautiful stars or if it does they shouldnt be more than 2 or 3; and if all the stars are young and beautiful and they are SIX no less and the show is probably the most watched sitcom globally it is so totally skrewed awards-wise
and here is why they hate the show: because friends is hugely popular globally, because the actors are young and beautiful (well they WERE young for most of the show's run; they were definitely young in th ebest seasons of the show when it should have won awards; and even in 2002 they are still strikingly appealing) and because they are as many as six and the establishment cant control any of that; in fact it is quite easy to determine the reasons for the nine-year friends backlash: take all the shows that won the awards instead of friends and see what it is the differentiates them from friends; ok, iam a bit lazy and will not go to all the trouble of visiting the websites of the various awards to get the names of all the shows that beat friends to all the awards in the past eight years; i think it would be correct to say that in 99% of the cases when friends did not win an award that award was won by one of the following shows: seinfeld, frasier, will&grace (W&G), everybody loves f**king raymond (ELFR) and sex and the city (S&TC); so let's break this down: messing and mccormack are definitely young and appealing but their show is nowhere nearly as successful as friends on a global scale; plus if you recognize that a show is good you will HAVE to ultimately recognize the stars and in W&G's case there is only two of them and they by now each have either an emmy or a GG or something; the cast of S&TC could also be considered appealing but again their show does not have friends-calibre global appeal which makes it more eligible for an award; the cast-size situation here is similar to W&G: although the main protagonists are four SJP is CLEARLY the lead whereas with friends we have six leads; hence she already has a pile of awards; these two were the tricky ones; in the cases of seinfeld, frasier and ELFR the picture is much clearer: are we going to recognize the funny young and beautiful people or are we going to award the mid-life crisis set? the facts speak for themselves;
so as you can see the formula for an award-winning show is that it must not have young and beautiful stars or if it does they shouldnt be more than 2 or 3; and if all the stars are young and beautiful and they are SIX no less and the show is probably the most watched sitcom globally it is so totally skrewed awards-wise