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TVFactFan · 03-26-2004, 07:47 PM

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Originally posted by Cool Black
I assume from your name that your mission is to analyze tv, but as a writer I have to say that sometimes you just have to allow for creative license. I don't think any of those changes really matter. As for mentioning Maude even though the shows were owned by the same person it could have been some legal reasons they didn't mention it or they plain ole just wanted to distance themselves from Maude. The show is a seperate entity. I'm glad they the show was based in reality "Eric Monte's life" if that is true and not on some fantasy of what the ghetto "might be like". For people like me who never really saw Maude and really care to...it doesn't matter.

The writers for Good Times were awful and that's why the two shows are NOT CONNECTED like

All in the Family-Jeffersons

All in the Family-Maude

Cool Black · 03-26-2004, 08:53 PM

You're entitled to your opinion, but I thought the writers did a pretty accurate job and I am very critical of white writers writing a black show.

TVFactFan · 03-26-2004, 08:59 PM

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Originally posted by Cool Black
You're entitled to your opinion, but I thought the writers did a pretty accurate job and I am very critical of white writers writing a black show.

The writers could have figured out a way to explain the Chicago setting.

Cool Black · 03-26-2004, 11:21 PM

You want an explanation. Here's one. I the pilot episode "Getting Up The Rent" Florida is said to be recovering from surgery. Florida left (wherever Maude was set) and moved into the projects after alderman Fred C. Davis got them the apartment as explained in the first episode he appeared. Davis got James a job and home for his family and thus they moved to Chicago.
That might have been the backstory, but didn't have time to put it in the pilot. You don't know what kind of schedule and demands the producers/writers to get this show on the air. It's real easy to sit back and judge another's work to infinty. Hindsight is always 20/20.

TVFactFan · 03-26-2004, 11:29 PM

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Originally posted by Cool Black
You want an explanation. Here's one. I the pilot episode "Getting Up The Rent" Florida is said to be recovering from surgery. Florida left (wherever Maude was set) and moved into the projects after alderman Fred C. Davis got them the apartment as explained in the first episode he appeared. Davis got James a job and home for his family and thus they moved to Chicago.
That might have been the backstory, but didn't have time to put it in the pilot. You don't know what kind of schedule and demands the producers/writers to get this show on the air. It's real easy to sit back and judge another's work to infinty. Hindsight is always 20/20.

Why would they move to the Projects in Chicago if Florida's Husband received a promotion on the appearance of Maude. See it's so many things that doesn't add up which makes it so hard to label Good Times a spinoff.

Cool Black · 03-26-2004, 11:43 PM

Like everything on Good Times the promotion fell through, Florida got sick they needed a change. They had the worst luck this side of Giligan's Island.

TVFactFan · 03-26-2004, 11:50 PM

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Originally posted by Cool Black
Like everything on Good Times the promotion fell through, Florida got sick they needed a change. They had the worst luck this side of Giligan's Island.

But if the promotion fell through, why would the Evans leave the state of NY with no money to move to a poor section of Chicago when they could have just stayed in the poor section of NYC?-LOL

Cool Black · 03-26-2004, 11:56 PM

I hate to imply that all black people know what it's like to get into the projects, but through my studies I have found out that it takes a waiting list to get into the projects as weird as that sounds. If Alderman Davis offered James a job and a "home" he would have to go with it just like his fateful job in Mississippi.

TVFactFan · 03-29-2004, 10:31 AM

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Originally posted by Cool Black
I hate to imply that all black people know what it's like to get into the projects, but through my studies I have found out that it takes a waiting list to get into the projects as weird as that sounds. If Alderman Davis offered James a job and a "home" he would have to go with it just like his fateful job in Mississippi.

Still, leave one ghetto in Harlem, to go across the country to Chicago to live in another Ghetto? Wouldn;t have made sense to be on a waiting list for something you can have stayed in Harlem for. Please just admit that good times is not at all connected to Maude. There is no way the two shows can ever be connected because there are too many HOLES to fill.

Brian Damage · 03-29-2004, 08:13 PM

It is connected FLORIDA EVANS...THE END

03-26-2004, 08:53 PM	#17
Cool Black Member Occasional Poster Join Date: Mar 26, 2004 Location: Baltimore, Maryland Posts: 7	You're entitled to your opinion, but I thought the writers did a pretty accurate job and I am very critical of white writers writing a black show.

03-26-2004, 11:21 PM	#19
Cool Black Member Occasional Poster Join Date: Mar 26, 2004 Location: Baltimore, Maryland Posts: 7	You want an explanation. Here's one. I the pilot episode "Getting Up The Rent" Florida is said to be recovering from surgery. Florida left (wherever Maude was set) and moved into the projects after alderman Fred C. Davis got them the apartment as explained in the first episode he appeared. Davis got James a job and home for his family and thus they moved to Chicago. That might have been the backstory, but didn't have time to put it in the pilot. You don't know what kind of schedule and demands the producers/writers to get this show on the air. It's real easy to sit back and judge another's work to infinty. Hindsight is always 20/20.

03-26-2004, 11:43 PM	#21
Cool Black Member Occasional Poster Join Date: Mar 26, 2004 Location: Baltimore, Maryland Posts: 7	Like everything on Good Times the promotion fell through, Florida got sick they needed a change. They had the worst luck this side of Giligan's Island.

03-26-2004, 11:56 PM	#23
Cool Black Member Occasional Poster Join Date: Mar 26, 2004 Location: Baltimore, Maryland Posts: 7	I hate to imply that all black people know what it's like to get into the projects, but through my studies I have found out that it takes a waiting list to get into the projects as weird as that sounds. If Alderman Davis offered James a job and a "home" he would have to go with it just like his fateful job in Mississippi.

03-29-2004, 08:13 PM	#25
Brian Damage I'm Rich Bitch Forum Icon Join Date: Feb 03, 2002 Location: What Ain't No Country I Ever Heard Of...They Speak English in What? Posts: 63,107	It is connected FLORIDA EVANS...THE END