DocBosch
<font color=blue>Hasta La By Bye, Doc<br><font col
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Anything in a creative forum goes through a difficult process till fruition, but that's not a factor that the audience should have to consider. Their enjoyment depends on the final product, not on the hard work it took to bring it about.
I've attended five or so Halloween Horror Nights, and the Bill & Ted show was always my hidden reason for attending. While the pop culture satire was the main focus of the show, it was always fun to see the clever ways they intertwined all the characters each year. But a couple of years ago they decided to dispense with the clever, and just try to cram as many of the latest pop icons around into the show, mostly without rhyme or reason.
The best thing about the B&T show was the fact that it was different every year, but at some point the producers decided to instate a formula that would be carbon copied every year: bad guy de jour hatches plot to kidnap pop musicians de jour, who perform pop tunes de jour, with movie characters de jour popping up long enough to blurt catch phrases de jour, with cameo appearance of Bill & Ted at some point in the show.
Now, I didn't see the B&T show last year, but I was eager to see what they would come up with outside of the wild west setting (though, part of the fun in the years past was to see how they integrated that fact into the show, something that seemed to have been ignored the last few years at USF). Hopefully I won't be disappointed this year.
That said, from experience, the non-frequent audiences to B&T always seem to be pleased with the show, which is probably what's most important. They have no reference to what came before it, so they enjoy the current show on it's own level. For all I know, the shows before my first might have been far superior to my favorite ones.
-Kevin
I've attended five or so Halloween Horror Nights, and the Bill & Ted show was always my hidden reason for attending. While the pop culture satire was the main focus of the show, it was always fun to see the clever ways they intertwined all the characters each year. But a couple of years ago they decided to dispense with the clever, and just try to cram as many of the latest pop icons around into the show, mostly without rhyme or reason.
The best thing about the B&T show was the fact that it was different every year, but at some point the producers decided to instate a formula that would be carbon copied every year: bad guy de jour hatches plot to kidnap pop musicians de jour, who perform pop tunes de jour, with movie characters de jour popping up long enough to blurt catch phrases de jour, with cameo appearance of Bill & Ted at some point in the show.
Now, I didn't see the B&T show last year, but I was eager to see what they would come up with outside of the wild west setting (though, part of the fun in the years past was to see how they integrated that fact into the show, something that seemed to have been ignored the last few years at USF). Hopefully I won't be disappointed this year.
That said, from experience, the non-frequent audiences to B&T always seem to be pleased with the show, which is probably what's most important. They have no reference to what came before it, so they enjoy the current show on it's own level. For all I know, the shows before my first might have been far superior to my favorite ones.
-Kevin
I think last year was the year there were more 'in' jokes' that we didn't get.
