"I don't imagine it was useless to anyone who enjoyed it, like myself. Did you expect the show to be something other than what the creators intended it to be? Or do you deem it useless because it doesn't live up to your standards like most shows you see? Either way, it doesn't sound like other people weren't made to miss anything other than your expectations, which is probably a good thing or they wouldn't enjoy hardly anything."
Quite right, lots of folks got a lot out of it, evidently. I expected the show to be, how shall I put this, not a batch of tedious kiddie story cliches tossed onstage and buried under a lot of over-produced puppet gimmicks and moving pieces of scenery and flashing lights and loud noises, and if that's really what the show's creators intended then hip hoorah for them, mission accomplished. Not the first time flash and dazzle triumphed over anything remotely resembling content, and far from the last.
Frankly, I deemed it useless because it was, well, USELESS. It certainly didn't live up to my standards, you know, those little standards about plot and characterization and general production not insulting my intelligence at every single turn.
Glad you enjoyed WAR HORSE.
"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." Thomas Pynchon, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick
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Updated On: 1/7/13 at 02:22 PM
