Posts by Hadyn Green
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Yes. Is my quick answer.
But, (this is how I start my long answer) which TVNZ shows are we going to see this in? Mucking In? The motorsport show on Sunday afternoons?
TVNZ doesn't seem to have many other shows that it could put good bicultural aspects into. I agree that Shortland St (when I used to watch it) was always very good at being bicultural without being tokenistic.
I read this recently about the new TV season in the states and discovered that there is a term for the type of character I hate in TV and movies: The Magical Negro.
__...the pilot had a serious case of Magical Negro Syndrome. They seem to be implying that the black character does, indeed, know more than he's letting on ... but please note I am able to type "The black character" and not only do you know who I'm talking about if you've seen the show, you know who I'm talking about even if you haven't seen the show, but have seen any television in the last 20 years__
We haven't been guilty of this in NZ, at least that I can recall. But it is this kind of thing that I would be worried about if we started calling for shows to be more bicultural.
I can just imagine TV executives saying something like: good script, can you put a Maori in there somewhere?
So I would love to see more bi/multiculturalism but I just dread what might be.
And yes we should stop Coro St (it bumped the netball!) but you might have to wait for a generation or two, otherwise: riots.
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Oh, and they should not sink any more money into Eden Park either. It should probably go right beside the motorway on a train line at a point in the city where fans are going to scatter in various directions after the game...So perhaps above spaghetti junction?
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They CAN'T expand the Caketin. It turns out that was just a fanciful idea of one councillor. the engineers came along later (and in a much smaller story) saying it would be impossible to do.
The reason an innercity stadium in Auckland will fall down (erm, not literally) is cars. Studies all over the world have shown that sports fans will drive to sporting events no matter how good the public transport systems might be. So you get stadiums that have to be surrounded by carparks which (tends to) takes away from having interesting things like Tom suggested. And of course all of the cars will clog up Auckland like bacon in a fat man's arteries.
Check out New York's problem (finding a good link for this is hard) in trying to get a new stadium for the Olympics/NY Jets football team.
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I thought we...I mean they were called AGENDAs? (Another Government Employee Not Doing Anything) Still I suppose there is already a show called Agenda.
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Hear-hear, great system! I wish the email confirming my entry had said something like: You have now been assimilated into THE SYSTEM!
But now I'm watching this like a reality TV show. Who is gonna get kicked out first?
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I'm really looking forward to new EML, although screening Friday night is a bit of a bummer - I'm going to have to trundle out the VCR.
I know, but it's good if you're trying to save money by not going out.
Still I always thought EML would sit nicely in that Sunday 9.30 slot
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dc_red: Absolutely! I think it might be the same reason we love skit shows (like Little Britain). Once you've seen the skit once you know what's going to happen (he's the only gay in the village) but you love it every time.
Sure, you can mix it up a little (House has to save someone he mis-diagnosed, One of the other doctors is the hero, House has to save himself) but basically you don't leave a winning formula.
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Back to the music though...
I'm thinking now that _The Monster Mash_ might be good, for some reason.
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is anybody participating in "Movember"?
I'm going for the "half-handlebar", where the bars don't reach your chin.
You can sponsor me at the same link Che put up.
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That is SO good!
And I am over the moon that it's finally on a night where I can stay up without having to worry about work (yes I do feel like an old man).
I much prefer EML to that Un-authorised History they did. I felt it was too contrived. Which seems a silly thing to say about Jeremy Wells.