from Mari Hall found.dead.in.texas@airmail.net
Kevin Smith wrote:
>
> While I'm not suggesting we run full TV schedules
here, or deconstruct and
> dissect each and every line of some tripe like
Diagnosis Murder, I also
> don't think we should just automatically dismiss
discussion of anything on
> television, either.
>
> If the actual Homicide series was in book form (not
those limp, pallid
> tie-in things they released a while back), we'd be
going over each book in
> loving detail. Kellerman's unexpected return has torn
right through
> hardboiled, and is heading right into the guts of
noirland.
>
> It was just a pointer to some folks on this list who
might be interested in
> seeing a little slice of how it should be done, in a
medium that,
> admittedly, rarely gets hardboiled right.
>
> Yes, by all means, the main point of the list should
be hardboiled fiction,
> but let's deal with the message, not the
medium.
>
>
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>
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