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In Reply to: Movies versus TV shows posted by Cetaele on June 9, 2004 at 18:44:27:
Of course made for tv mini-series or television shows can be better than movies. But there are plenty of horrid movies.But many shows have long story arcs and character development that auduiences get used to and even feel like real people. I worked in an office for years andpeople would often discuss poor Niles Crane trying to vie for the affection of Daphne Moon. Sitcoms are set up typically as short segmants of trivial situations with a punch-line every 2 minutes. Nevetheless that is true of most comedies. Film has a time constraint of ~1.5 - 2hours to not only develop characters place them in a plot of some sort, execute and follow-up all sub-plots and manage to say something relevant. Interestingly Kelsey Grammer's character has been on tv for 20 years - that's some character which many would argue seems like a real person. There is no higher praise one can be afforded.
TV's downfall is to keep it consistantly at a high level - and even shows considered "very good" like a Frasier cannot keep it up consistantly - and mostly never know when to quit.
A lot can be learned from John Cleese's Faulty Towers. They made 11or 12 episodes all about equal and stopped. Stopped because they could not keep it to that high a level. American shows are usualy spent by season 4 and they hang on for years after that.
The Sci-fi shows like Start Trek:TNG is another example(in the reverse because it was terrible to start and got much better), are also in that veign where it surpassed all of the film versions. But this type of show was about ideas - 19th century European utopia set in the future where the Utopia is all but attained. In a 2 hour film it usually degenerates into an action flick like the Star Wars movies. Star Trek DS9 had entire season arcs with nuance and depth no film no matter how good could possibly attain. This is not to say I particularly think it's BETTER but from a depth of plot perspective this media has supremacy - quality of direction, writing etc are another matter - and TV is usually subject to certain restraints films are not - like television standards of decency etc.
Nevertheless - a Mini-series like Britain's I, Claudius is as good as any film I've seen made and certainly superior to what most film snobs think are the greatest films. Damn brilliant acting historially fascinating lots of blood and nuditiy and incest intrigue etc - great work.
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