Comments on: Shat Happens http://www.tvornottv.net/2008/12/04/shat-happens/ Thu, 07 Jul 2011 03:11:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Karla Robinson http://www.tvornottv.net/2008/12/04/shat-happens/comment-page-1/#comment-113 Karla Robinson Sat, 06 Dec 2008 15:37:46 +0000 http://www.tvornottv.net/?p=483#comment-113 Best Shatner story ever? This one: http://suicidegirls.com/news/geek/20562/ Best Shatner story ever? This one:

http://suicidegirls.com/news/geek/20562/

]]> By: Kevin Marousek http://www.tvornottv.net/2008/12/04/shat-happens/comment-page-1/#comment-112 Kevin Marousek Fri, 05 Dec 2008 19:29:27 +0000 http://www.tvornottv.net/?p=483#comment-112 Then he needed to state that as his reason for doing the series. If Shatner wants to host a show as some sort of public catharsis, and someone wants to pay him to do it, I have no problem with that. But that isn't how the series is being promoted, and I doubt the guests were told in advance the direction the interviews would take. And, as the show was designed to be more conversational in tone than, say, a Larry King interview, it would have been nice to see more of a guve-and-take where Shatner shared his own, personal, tragic experience in a like manner. In other words, it would have been nice to see some sort of flow of ideas instead of what became, at times, uncomfortable to watch. The way I interpreted the interviews, it was televised schadenfreude, where Shatner would pinpoint a source of pain and then repeatedly poke at it with a stick. Then he needed to state that as his reason for doing the series. If Shatner wants to host a show as some sort of public catharsis, and someone wants to pay him to do it, I have no problem with that. But that isn’t how the series is being promoted, and I doubt the guests were told in advance the direction the interviews would take.

And, as the show was designed to be more conversational in tone than, say, a Larry King interview, it would have been nice to see more of a guve-and-take where Shatner shared his own, personal, tragic experience in a like manner. In other words, it would have been nice to see some sort of flow of ideas instead of what became, at times, uncomfortable to watch.

The way I interpreted the interviews, it was televised schadenfreude, where Shatner would pinpoint a source of pain and then repeatedly poke at it with a stick.

]]> By: Jay Lewis http://www.tvornottv.net/2008/12/04/shat-happens/comment-page-1/#comment-111 Jay Lewis Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:47:23 +0000 http://www.tvornottv.net/?p=483#comment-111 <i>What he most wanted to know from his first two guests was what it was like to have experienced the worst possible moments in their respective lives.</i> Perhaps related to his own worst possible moment, the death of his wife? What he most wanted to know from his first two guests was what it was like to have experienced the worst possible moments in their respective lives.

Perhaps related to his own worst possible moment, the death of his wife?

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