We get Arrested Development. We just don’t think it’s the greatest show since sliced bread.
I will not be insulted by a bunch of snobby television fans because my tastes don’t match your tastes and that makes you pissed.
Fucking deal with it. A lot of people didn’t watch Arrested Development. It’s not because they didn’t get it. It’s because they didn’t like it.
It’s dead. It’s going to be canceled. Now stop telling me how morally bankrupt my taste in television is because you just come off like (to steal a line from a Fox show still on the air) a dumbass.
Yes, I know a rabid AD fan. Obnoxiously so. Went so far as to make the claim that liking AD was one of the baseline rules for being his friend. Oh, well…guess we’ll stay office mates.
In the immortal words of Bugs Bunny, “What a dope. What a maroon!”
This was the same argument people were throwing around about “Lost In Translation” - that if you didn’t like it, you didn’t get it.
Pissed me off, too. It just strikes me as the most arrogant argument out there . Guess what? I got it. Done plenty of traveling. Spent a shitload of time in foreign countries on my own. Should have been the perfect movie for me. And it still sucked, in my opinion.
I’m not saying what you claim I’m saying at all. I’m explaining why people would accuse you of not getting it – because that’s true for most people who don’t like it. Not you guys.
I’m not sure how that makes a difference - the whole line of thought still pisses me off. Even if it’s something that I happen to love, the “you don’t like it because you don’t get it” argument just sucks. Whether intentionally or not, it just reeks of snobbery - that some things only appeal to those refined enough to understand it.
The SDMB isn’t some super elite group of ultra-refined people, so I don’t see how it makes sense to say (basically) “Well, yeah, you Dopers who don’t like it are clearly okay in not liking it, but everybody else? Feh, they just don’t get it.”
Obviously my ability to communicate is on the fritz today, and for that I apologize.
I was trying to delineate two groups:
Group A - People who watched it, “got it”, but didn’t like it
Group B - People who watched it, didn’t “get it”, and didn’t like it.
Most people in my experience who didn’t like the show fall into Group B. The people in the thread (and presumably more people not on the SDMB, but the only ones I’ve encountered are here) are in Group A.
I was saying, “The reason fans think you’re in Group B is because most people we know are in Group B. Even though you’re in Group A, that’s why people think you’re in Group B.”
What constitutes “getting it”? Maybe if you can clear that up, I can sympathize with the position, because at the moment my position is, there’s no such thing as Group B. Either people like it, or they don’t.
Tracy, that’s a small selection of people you’re talking to there–not the entire audience. Some people do get it, and pay attention and don’t need a laugh track and don’t mistake it for a documentary, but they just don’t like it. That’s it. That’s all there is to it.
Justin_Bailey expressed frustration that fans were judging him for not liking the show. I tried to explain why some fans were so quick to brush off his opinion. I don’t agree with the people who say “doesn’t like Arrested Development = no taste/doesn’t get it”, but I was trying to explain why that view is so prevalent.
I get what you’re saying, and I read your posts in the other thread, it’s just that…
You seemed to have missed the part where I said I liked AD, I just didn’t love it like some do around here.
You brushed off any criticism of the show with the “you don’t get it” defense. But then qualified it with “But I don’t mean you, I mean other people.” That’s terribly insulting.
You also seemed to miss the part where I listed my (in your own words) very valid criticisms of the show. Those were also brushed off.
