From: epwise@yahoo.com   
      
   The 'Brightness' control still doesn't help    
   wrote in news:akpta91almoqeqc5iifsv2qpiepdhrrahd@4ax.com:   
      
   >   
   > ...that ceasing production a couple decades ago wouldn't have fixed.   
   >   
   > Each episode gets more vapid, disjointed, and utterly full of itself.   
   > Most likely a reflection of its genetically humorless liberal   
   > producers.   
   >   
   > Producer Sam Simon has now dedicated himself to financing high seas   
   > piracy.  He would do well to study the fates of the Somali pirates   
   > that hijacked the 'Maersk Alabama'...   
      
   If you really didn't like it you wouldn't watch it (Masochistic   
   tendencies?)   
   If you really didn't watch it you wouldn't know its contents (Psychic   
   tendencies?)   
   If you didn't know its contents you wouldn't post your drivel in   
   newsgroups as if anyone cared what you think.   
      
   The important thing is not a comparison to past episodes but a   
   comparison to other so-called comedies (live action or animated).  The   
   Simpsons still comes out near the top.   
      
   If you disagree, fine. Don't watch it.   
   But all these gripes about the quality compared to earlier episodes is   
   pointless and tiresome. Very few long-running series can maintain the   
   quality that the Simpsons has.  Deal with it.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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