http://www.fishee.com/blog/2008/04/21/everyday/ ...等等... Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:38:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 http://www.fishee.com/blog/2008/04/21/everyday/#comment-4306 Ray Sat, 26 Apr 2008 08:49:29 +0000 http://www.fishee.com/blog/?p=200#comment-4306 It never ceases to amaze me how a show as long as The Simpsons is can have that kind of enduring appeal to its audience. Mindful that its audience must have changed dramatically over its run. And perhaps so does the production crew. I guess the fact that it's an animated show rather than one that has real person in it certainly helps. The writers don't have to kill off someone seemingly quite randomly just because the actor/actress isn't going to be available for whatever reason there may be. Nor do the characters ever age at all, an ever-challenging goal that the real-life actors/actresses can only resort to plastic surgery (and perhaps a few other things but you get the idea) to accomplish with varying degrees of success over the short term and the same, sad, inevitable failure over the long term. It never ceases to amaze me how a show as long as The Simpsons is can have that kind of enduring appeal to its audience. Mindful that its audience must have changed dramatically over its run. And perhaps so does the production crew. I guess the fact that it’s an animated show rather than one that has real person in it certainly helps. The writers don’t have to kill off someone seemingly quite randomly just because the actor/actress isn’t going to be available for whatever reason there may be. Nor do the characters ever age at all, an ever-challenging goal that the real-life actors/actresses can only resort to plastic surgery (and perhaps a few other things but you get the idea) to accomplish with varying degrees of success over the short term and the same, sad, inevitable failure over the long term.

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