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Apr. 24th, 2009 04:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elapsesLast week during my "WHAT UP, CHUCK IS WAY TOO AWESOME" phase (which is not over but has lessened in intensity) my friend Ian was like "...so, is it better than Friday Night Lights?" (he has seen neither but he, you know, knows me). Questions like that are the bane of my existence. Like, why do people have to compare things with completely different tones? It just doesn't work! You would have to be a crazy person to stack up the O.C. next to the West Wing. Are they both awesome? Yes. Is one more awesome than the other? Well, okay, obviously yes, but the purpose of the two is so vastly different that it is almost unfair to say that. ANYWAY!!! A solution!
Let me introduce to you the Bones-Wire scale of television tone:
Where 1 is fan service (and that is not an insult-- we all know how I love my Bonez) all the way up to a 10 for gritty realism (I think-- I have never seen the Wire, because my tone comfort zone is 3-8. FINE, OKAY, more like 1-7). It's kind of a measurement of how seriously you have to take something to get something out of it.
Anyway, then you stack tone against overall quality! Et voilà! Now when asked whether Chuck or Friday Night Lights is more awesome, you can come out with, "Well, Chuck and Friday Night Lights are both high quality, but Chuck is maybe a 4 or a 5 on the Bones-Wire scale, and I think Friday Night Lights comes out to a 8 or a 9 (if, of course, you disregard the second season)."*
*Unfortunately I can guarantee that no one will know what this means, so maybe you should not actually come out with it.
It can also be used as a predictor, i.e.:
(ACTUALLY, I think if you had a scale for "amount of heart" and then "ratings" you could pretty much have a fake fandom math number that could tell you everything you would ever need to know about a television show. However, uh, measuring heart. I am not sure that is possible.)
While we are kind of half almost talking about Chuck (AND I'M SORRY, because I do know that this is basically all I have been talking about lately which is probably crazy obnoxious-- but at least it's only this much! Because I was thinking of leading up to the finale with a Bakula a day. This one would have come first and you cannot tell me that would not have haunted you ALL THE WAY TO MONDAY), but have we all read this article? Specifically:
Let me introduce to you the Bones-Wire scale of television tone:
Where 1 is fan service (and that is not an insult-- we all know how I love my Bonez) all the way up to a 10 for gritty realism (I think-- I have never seen the Wire, because my tone comfort zone is 3-8. FINE, OKAY, more like 1-7). It's kind of a measurement of how seriously you have to take something to get something out of it.
Anyway, then you stack tone against overall quality! Et voilà! Now when asked whether Chuck or Friday Night Lights is more awesome, you can come out with, "Well, Chuck and Friday Night Lights are both high quality, but Chuck is maybe a 4 or a 5 on the Bones-Wire scale, and I think Friday Night Lights comes out to a 8 or a 9 (if, of course, you disregard the second season)."*
*Unfortunately I can guarantee that no one will know what this means, so maybe you should not actually come out with it.
It can also be used as a predictor, i.e.:
(ACTUALLY, I think if you had a scale for "amount of heart" and then "ratings" you could pretty much have a fake fandom math number that could tell you everything you would ever need to know about a television show. However, uh, measuring heart. I am not sure that is possible.)
While we are kind of half almost talking about Chuck (AND I'M SORRY, because I do know that this is basically all I have been talking about lately which is probably crazy obnoxious-- but at least it's only this much! Because I was thinking of leading up to the finale with a Bakula a day. This one would have come first and you cannot tell me that would not have haunted you ALL THE WAY TO MONDAY), but have we all read this article? Specifically:
If, in two weeks, that is the last episode of the show to ever air, it will be one of the least satisfying finales of all time. Chris Fedak, the guy who created the show, said people will set their living rooms on fire.Well, blerg.
