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Gilligan's Island
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<blockquote data-quote="Crimson" data-source="post: 238742" data-attributes="member: 5079"><p>GILLIGAN'S ISLAND is the only one of the 60s sitcoms where I prefer the color seasons over B&W. There's something vaguely eerie about the first season; not just the B&W cinematography but an odd, disconnected tone to the dialogue audio. The plots are slightly more grounded but, whereas I considered that a plus for shows like BEWITCHED, the stories in the first season of GI just feel rather mundane (well, as mundane as being comical castaways on an island can be).</p><p></p><p>With the switch to color, the show fully embraced the absurdist nature of its premise; no other show of the era -- not even the almost surreal GREEN ACRES -- ran with the ridiculousness of its premise as thoroughly. The snarky past time in the 80s of poking holes in the show's plot -- "Why would Ginger bring so many clothes on a 3-hour tour?" -- missed the point entirely. The show was fully aware of its ludicrousness; <em>that</em> was the point</p><p></p><p>It's good the show only lasted 3 seasons, and didn't limp along to exhaustion like BEWITCHED or THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Crimson, post: 238742, member: 5079"] GILLIGAN'S ISLAND is the only one of the 60s sitcoms where I prefer the color seasons over B&W. There's something vaguely eerie about the first season; not just the B&W cinematography but an odd, disconnected tone to the dialogue audio. The plots are slightly more grounded but, whereas I considered that a plus for shows like BEWITCHED, the stories in the first season of GI just feel rather mundane (well, as mundane as being comical castaways on an island can be). With the switch to color, the show fully embraced the absurdist nature of its premise; no other show of the era -- not even the almost surreal GREEN ACRES -- ran with the ridiculousness of its premise as thoroughly. The snarky past time in the 80s of poking holes in the show's plot -- "Why would Ginger bring so many clothes on a 3-hour tour?" -- missed the point entirely. The show was fully aware of its ludicrousness; [I]that[/I] was the point It's good the show only lasted 3 seasons, and didn't limp along to exhaustion like BEWITCHED or THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES. [/QUOTE]
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