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2007-04-18 -Lurid Crime Tales-

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Posted by Thinemp Whimble 2007-04-18 13:15|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 AOL has that one and another, possibly even worse (in terms of writing quality).

If you're disturbed by the violence in the play, then I advise you to stay away from movies, comic books, video games, and music videos (which is actually pretty good advice even if you're not disturbed). What disturbs me is the bad writing -- what year was this kid in? This reads like something a junior high student would write.

There are two things that strike me about "Richard McBeef": the first is that the characters' actions all seem pretty random. There's not really any logical connection between stimulus and response. And the other is that the murdering, pedophilic stepfather is actually the most sympathetic character. In fact, we don't know that the stepfather did molest the kid, or that he killed the kid's father. We only have the kid's word on that, and he's clearly out to get the guy.

So if a junior high kid were going to write an over-the-top, ham-handed satire about molestation hysteria, this might be what he'd come up with. Real weird.

Posted by Angie Schultz 2007-04-18 18:11|| 2007-04-18 18:11|| Front Page Top

#2 Got to the part about the government's conspiracies to kill John Lennon and Marilyn Monroe and thought I'd accidentally clicked over to the Daily Kos.

Posted by exJAG 2007-04-18 19:36|| 2007-04-18 19:36|| Front Page Top

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