From: invalid@invalid.invalid   
      
   On Tue, 17 Dec 2013 14:51:10 GMT, Wiseguy wrote:   
      
   >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?)   
      
   Nothing better to do on a Sunday evening.   
      
   >If you really didn't watch it you wouldn't know its contents (Psychic   
   >tendencies?)   
      
   I watch it, in vain hopes of a return to humor.   
      
   >If you didn't know its contents you wouldn't post your drivel in   
   >newsgroups as if anyone cared what you think.   
      
   I do watch it, and post my observations. Several people cared enough   
   to respond. If you have a problem with that, go the coward's route   
   and threaten to plonk me.   
   >   
   >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.   
      
   Even if that were somehow true, it would merely be a harsh   
   condemnation of the competition.   
      
   >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.   
      
   Including the Simpsons, obviously.   
      
   >Deal with it.   
      
   I have. Why are you having so much trouble doing the same?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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