TV and TRP

[LARSSON at VAX1.Mankato.MSUS.EDU]

Andrew Dinn observes:
" He may not have made as good a job                   
of this transposition but Vineland is saturated with TV because it
gives TRP room to play with our expectations, restate them in another
key, throw in the odd bum note (doubtless, a minor fourth) just for
kicks and look at the audience wince."


Nicely put, and let's recall that he's been doing stuff like that all along,
just more so in VINELAND.  See the DRAGNET cops in V. (where TRP doesn't
yet draw too much distinction between film and TV), or the kids in
"The Secret Integration" who quote Yogi Bear but reject the happy-service-comedy
movies their folks watch.


Don Larsson, Mankato State U (MN)