Do the people who call it poorly written even KNOW how to write? What have THEY published for money? I'd like to see a list of their successful works that gives them such authority to comment on the acting, screenwriting and the entertainment business.
My friend actually worked in the business for 20 years, and he said he was "glad I decided to keep my mouth closed and comment only after watching the episode." He watched it with me last night.
He disagrees on every count of "poor acting, badly written series."
He thought it might appeal for popularity reasons, as in shows that win "the people's choice" awards. But decided not to say so until after watching the episode. He said he's "glad I waited bc I would have looked a right fool if I'd talked first. This episode AND the acting and the series all had more professional merit than I thought."
So did the person who claims it's a bad series watch last night's episode? I'm assuming the person works in the entertainment industry, otherwise I have no idea how he's such an expert about what constitutes bad acting, bad writing and a bad television series. I never say things like that because I hate it when people tell me how to do my job, people who've never been a health care worker much less a paramedic but think they can run their big mouths about how to do my job.
My doctor can't stand it when people do that to him. He flatly and soundly rejects it every time I tell him someone told me I have such and such, someone else told me something else. He rejects what they say with such finality that it never fails to shut me up.
Of course when the diagnosis is about me personally I have a harder time not falling prey to believing anyone who offers an opinion.
Incidentally, I think UTD is just as good as the Green Mile. It was just different, there's not even a comparison between a series vs a one-time movie. According to Richard, the comparison of a television series to a movie proves the person "DOESN'T understand the entertainment industry. You compare a series to another series, and a movie to another movie. They're nowhere near the same in how you make a movie as to how you do a series. A series lasts over a long time and has to be done different from the way you make a movie."
One of his pet peeves is that "every person who's a spectator of my profession has decided they know everything there is to know about it when they don't understand much if anything about it."