[lit-ideas] Re: HOW IT IS on Route 66
- From: Ursula Stange <Ursula@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:42:47 -0400
Lawrence Helm wrote:
I’ve continued to watch some of the “old” episodes from old as well as
current TV series on
_http://tv.msn.com/tv/browse/default.aspx?ipp=200&tvbt=3_
<http://tv.msn.com/tv/browse/default.aspx?ipp=200&tvbt=3> The one I
just started watching Is/ New Amsterdam//. / Why was this show
cancelled, I wondered as I watched the first few episodes, but then
noticed that it hasn’t been cancelled. It is still going on. And then
I wondered why this show goes on while others, with equally good
stories and writing, have been cancelled,/ Life/ and/ Surface/ for
example. I wonder if it had something to do with Amsterdam’s
immortality. Immortality has been a popular theme since Utnapishtim
the Faraway. And didn’t the Green Knight have it? And didn’t the
Spanish explorers in the New World seek it? And didn’t the Ancient
Mariner have it? And the Headless Horseman?
And in more recent times, the Highlander, and Mick St. John in/
Moonlight. / The former had a long run and the latter seems to be
still going on.
I don’t remember what happened to Utnapishtim the Faraway
Two things....I've been watching old Route 66 episodes. George Maharis
was one of my heartthrobs in early teenagehood. So I was a little
worried about looking at these. But they have held up well. There's much
to be admired, still. The dislike of rules is front and centre every
week. The passion, the caring, the sense of justice, the searching, the
yearning, the willingness to stand up and be counted all made their way
into my psyche. I tried to become what I admired. I think it counts as
literature. Some of the episodes are worthy of Faulkner...
Catch it if you can...
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