The Conners

Linda

Linda

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Anyone watch The Conners tonight? The Roseanne Show without Roseanne.

I won't be watching it. I didn't approve of Roseanne or her racist ways but I don't think the program will last without her. Its almost 9 pm here on the west coast so maybe it hasn't been on here yet. Maybe I'll take a peek.
 

I watched it and did not like the fact they had her die of a pill overdose. I liked the old show but do not care for this one. Will not watch again.
 
i didnt like it either---their are too many people at one time and i am not pleased about the pill overdose--
 

I would have preferred if they had kept her as a character and used her situation as a learning experience. People say and do stupid things all the time. People can change their bigoted ideas. It would have been a great story line opportunity for the network to show how people suffer, how words really do affect others, how people can learn and grow, how people can find forgiveness in an otherwise very unforgiving world. I think the network missed an opportunity to do something great and they could have used Roseanne to do it.
 
dkay said:
I would have preferred if they had kept her as a character and used her situation as a learning experience. People say and do stupid things all the time. People can change their bigoted ideas. It would have been a great story line opportunity for the network to show how people suffer, how words really do affect others, how people can learn and grow, how people can find forgiveness in an otherwise very unforgiving world. I think the network missed an opportunity to do something great and they could have used Roseanne to do it.
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I totally agree with you dkay. I didn't get around to watching it last night and I doubt I bother to next week either.
 
I loved the original show. I watched the new one with Rosanne still in it and didn't care for it at all. Wondering how they were going to handle the show without her I watched and won't be tuning in again. I doubt the show will last very long. Even if you didn't care for Rosanne she was the star of the show and people watched because of that.
 
I watched it only because I was slightly curious. It was dark and dramatic with a cast that wasn't good at playing dramatic roles. Dan looked thin and lifeless. Mixing humor with opioid addiction was uncomfortable to watch too.

I have no empathy for Roseanne. Never have since she grabbed her crotch while singing the Nat'l Anthem disrespectfully in the opening of that baseball game. What goes around comes around.
 
Lara said:
I watched it only because I was slightly curious. It was dark and dramatic with a cast that wasn't good at playing dramatic roles. Dan looked thin and lifeless. Mixing humor with opioid addiction was uncomfortable to watch too.

I have no empathy for Roseanne. Never have since she grabbed her crotch while singing the Nat'l Anthem disrespectfully in the opening of that baseball game. What goes around comes around.
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Fortunately we never got to see that here... :eek:
 
I saw some of the show... curiosity, I guess. I only saw the first episode last season...again, curiosity.

John Goodman has lost so much weight, which is a good thing for health reasons, but he looks so different. They copied that "not sleeping in bed because spouse died" from All in the Family, which I watched regularly. Archie wouldn't sleep in his bed IIRC after Edith died.

The show is a jumbled mess, imo. They're yanking too many things/issues from the headlines all at once...parents moving in with kids, interracial marriage, Afghanistan, prescription medication addiction, little boy being attracted to other boys. Guess they feel if they sling enough things at the wall something will stick.

I never liked Roseanne, never thought she was funny, always hated her voice. I just don't think it's a good show - whether she's on it or not. Didn't watch the old show either, though I know it was popular.

I won't be watching it again.
 
Early in her standup career Roseann was mostly funny, but with a mean streak. Lots of comedians had a similar style and none appealed to me for very long.

I rarely (once a year at most) caught the original Roseann show, but didn't watch it regularly because I found her and Sara Gilbert's characters so sarcastic that they often crossed the line to cruel and vicious. The only truly likeable character was John Goodman's.

In real life, sadistic words and actions are neither forgiven nor forgotten a half hour later.
 
After a couple of shows never watched the original again, thought the characters were all disgusting, didn't watch the new one with or without her. Still think she's disgusting.
 
Lara said:
I watched it only because I was slightly curious. It was dark and dramatic with a cast that wasn't good at playing dramatic roles. Dan looked thin and lifeless. Mixing humor with opioid addiction was uncomfortable to watch too.

I have no empathy for Roseanne. Never have since she grabbed her crotch while singing the Nat'l Anthem disrespectfully in the opening of that baseball game. What goes around comes around.
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Agree. That was at a Padre game in San Diego. She has always been crude. I cannot stand her.
 

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