IVIV some very spoiler-ish reader response/cultural context for Doc: Philip Marlowe

Joe Allonby joeallonby at gmail.com
Fri Aug 21 19:23:29 CDT 2009


The implied sexual politics of Gilligan's Island are prety intense,
rivalled by the undercurrent of homoeroticism in Hogan's Heroes.

On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 7:31 PM, Robin
Landseadel<robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
> On Aug 21, 2009, at 8:28 AM, kelber at mindspring.com wrote:
>
>> The only thing to know is that it was fatuously dumb.
>
> Yeah, but as the author takes pains to point out elsewhere, ignorance takes
> up a particular shapes & sizes. There is something uniquely zombifying about
> Gilligan's Island, the way it can effectively shut down all brain function.
>
> Not to mention Gilligan's Wake.
>
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