Rood Eye
Tuesday 16th April 2019 7:09pm [Edited]
4,103 posts
Quote: Old Lady Leg @ 16th April 2019, 7:48 PM
In your opinion.
A bold assumption if ever I saw one.
Do you really think the opinions I express are my own?
Sometimes they are, of course, but I've also been known to express opinions that I don't hold simply for the purpose of stimulating interest, or even outright horror, among the readership.
It's a creative technique well-known to comedy writers, stand-up comedians and many many a journalist.
I have absolutely no doubt that "Ghosts" will entertain millions of TV viewers while many others will tolerate it for less than five minutes before deciding they'd rather watch paint dry.
In the preceding sentence, you could replace "Ghosts" with the name of any other TV series ever broadcast and it would have been a statement of truth that I could have written as a review following the first episode - but how entertaining would my review have been? What emotions would it have provoked in anyone who read it? Would it have been in any way worth my writing it?