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Daily Radar LIVES!...

Yes, I'm very late, but I just wanted you to know that a few of us Daily Radar free-lancers resurrected the site as fanboyplanet.com. We're not as harsh, and as of yet, I admit, we don't do game reviews (my co-editor got sucked into Dark Age of Camelot and I never saw him again), but we're trying to keep the best of what made Daily Radar work alive.

However, please do not hold us responsible for that stupid Blair Witch 2 review, nor should you hold editor Chris Bushnell responsible for that. You hire a reviewer, you have to stand by his opinion, even if, as in that case, he had his head up his derriere.

Best Regards,

Derek McCaw, California

Thanks for the update about Daily Radar's better staff. To be honest, as much as I ribbed that web site's mistakes in my editorial last year, I often miss the overall site itself, thanks to its more thought-out reviews. I'll be sure to check your site out.

A Little Mermaid 2 fan speaks...

Ariel Eric and Melody [in Little Mermaid 2] I think have a wonderful voice and personality...

Charlotte, Australia

Actually, I agree. Little Mermaid 2 is by far among the best direct-to-video movies ever achieved by Disney's Television Animation department. However, I guess the point I was making in my review was that the characters in the original movie were allowed to do more and seemed, well, I don't know, more "developed" somehow. It's all matters of opinion, and that's cool.

How "80s" is "That 80's Show"...?

Hi, about your That 80's Show review: WORD. What's up with a sitcom that acts like the only major parts of the 1980's were drugs and exercise fads...? The show is supposed to begin in 1984, right? What about the Olympics in Los Angeles, Ghostbusters and Footloose and Romancing the Stone and on and on? And the main star is supposed to be really into music, yet rarely seems to watch MTV even once. What's up with that? I can understand why they don't salute the better, superior TV on at the time, like Hill Street Blues and Cheers and The Cosby Show and Family Ties and for the love of humanity did this shows producers ever watch TV??? What about 1984 music, like "You Might Think" by the Cars and “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” by Cyndi Lauper and “China Girl” by David Bowie and “Legs” by ZZ Top and “Rockit” by Herbie Hancock and “Jump” by Van Halen and “Sweet Dreams are made of this” By Eurhythmics and “Every Breath You Take” by the Police and Michael Jackson’s “Thriller" and holy Air Supply they never turned on their radio either! Hey if you want scandal to make the Nielsen ratings fly, how about when Vanessa Williams lost her Miss America crown thanks to that Penthouse pictorial? Oh yeah that would require opening a newspaper. Forget I asked.

--"Polly", Florida

Hi, Polly; we couldn't have said it better ourselves. Nice stroll down music memory lane; those songs all won MTV video music awards in 1984 (though you probably knew that already).

A "That 80's Show" fan speaks...

Just wanted to write to say that I think that "That 80's Show" is wonderful. It's just the show I've been waiting for. I truly hope that it is a huge success, despite the mixed reviews that it seems to be getting. It makes me feel like I'm fourteen again. Totally awesome!

--Lori

Hi, Lori; I'm glad to hear from a fellow 80's survivor. I was 14 in the 80's, too. Maybe I just had different expectations for an "80's show"; I don't know. Nice that you didn't take things too personally, unlike some other people...

Yet another "That 80's Show" fan...

This is just in response to the Techtite review on 'That 80's Show'. I had just decided that I would go on the internet for a quick minute to pass a bit of time out of boredom, and decided to look up one of my newest all-time-favourite t.v. programs, that's right 'That 80's Show', when I fell upon this disgusting display of ignorance wrapped up in a single review set out to demolish one of the best episodes I have seen on television in a long time. I don't watch much t.v., about an hour and one half, a week (and this includes the choice of topic). Obviously the individual who decided to grace their ignorance of the 80's upon us, had never really lived them. They must have walked around with blinders on, because their complete disection of the show and its characters was so far off it was disgusting. For one thing, one of your major mistakes, was the comment of the character Tuesday, and how in '84 you never saw anyone who looked like her? COME ON!!!! It was the 80's when true punk rock was formed, and most certainly its outrageuos and rebellious fashion, or should I say, Anti-Fashion first came about. She is a complete character, one who appears to have been born straight out of that era, with her tight jeans, spiked hair, thick make-up (dark and rebellious), leather studded jacket, facial piercing's (which I must also add had just hit the scene within North America), Her studded leather belts, and punk t-shirts bearing such names as the Dead Kennedy's, if you had not seen someone with such a look at that time you must have been living under a rock, or in a upper-middle class area filled with the modern day preps. You must have lived a very sheltered life. As for the comments about cocaine and what types of places he must have been hanging out in, are more comments that derive from pure ignorance. The question should be, where were you? Cocaine had hit that era head first (no pun intended) and full on, the fact is whenever you went to any underground or extremely popular club, those truly would be the sounds you could hear,if listening, coming from behind the bathroom stall door. Anyways, to move on, all the characters are great, they are a true product of that environment, from Tuesday's punk rock attitude right down to Katies leg warmers and bubblegum pop attitude. As for their script, I have never laughed so hard during a program since...well I don't remember. I wouldn't miss an episode. In conclusion to this all, and to wrap it all up, if it wasn't labeled 'That 80's Show' it would never have been given such a horrible review. Face it, because we have all come to love 'That 70's Show' we expect 'That 80's Show' to have some of the same ideas and similarities. If the two shows were similar what would be the point? If you really sit down and watch the show, putting 'That 70's Show' out of your mind, you will see that it is a great quality program, and in some respects better than the above mentioned. I personally hope that the show will not be cancelled anytime soon, not before I get the chance to tape them all. Although, I am sure it will be because of the fact that 'That 70's Show' has such a large fan base, and most of those who watch that show will, and would never give, 'That 80's Show' a chance, my fiance and I may be the only ones, based on its title. What a shame it is to know that because of this a great show is bound to fade away.

--Tyr, Canada

Well, Tyr, never have it be said that Techtite.com only responds to positive comments! All I can say about cocaine hitting the era "head first"; so you say. I find it rather lame for any show to imply drugs were a "major" staple of a decade, when cocaine has been around (in some form or another) since the discovery of fire. I don't see how a drug could "define" a decade.

So...what does defines a decade? Current events. Music. Movies. And as ironic as it sounds...television! This series saluted none of the above, yet centered on...drugs? This didn't make us loathe the series (the thumbs-down was only "marginal"); but it does make the series less than it could've been. It's not our fault the show was cancelled; critics far superior to anyone here shot the series down, and even then; it was up to the viewers to decide. Few people watched and...it got cancelled. Sorry.

And...One Last 80's Show Fan Speaks in...2004!

I am a huge fan of the sitcom "That 80's Show" and I really hate people who hate "That 80's Show" and people who give "That 80's Show" bad reviews. I personally think that it doesn't matter what part of the 80's the show takes place as long as the show takes place in the 80's, as long as most of the stuff from the 80's are in the show and as long as the show is funny that's all that matters. Also I tell the Techtite person who gave "That 80's Show" a horrible review that you better think about what I said. Its just like what I wrote earlier it doesn't matter what part of the 80's the show takes place as long as the show takes place in the 80's, as long as most of the stuff from the 80's are in the show and as long as the show is funny that's all that matters.

Gregory, NY

It's funny: That 80's Show lasted only thirteen episodes and was cancelled two years ago. Yet this is still, to date, Techtite.com's most talked about review. However; the reason it was cancelled is because of something far more important than my latest review! The user's comments at Jump The Shark summarize "What Went Wrong" very eloquently. Don't shoot the messenger, though.

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