Interesting! Sure hope you don't end up in the video! LOL
On a serious note, have you done a review of the show with your take on it anywhere? If so, can you point a newbie in the right direction. I would love to read your take on it as you are one us......how do they say it "true crime fans"?
I would like to see it despite what I have read - I will say he sure was thinking outside the box and the idea (maybe or maybe not the content) was brilliant. As to content, I can't tell and right now. I am offended by the names and perception of Americans that last article and if I can read or see this play one day, that 'journalist' might cause me to have an intrinsic bias due to association. But, since I know that I should be able to view it with open mind.
Would love to hear your full analysis!
Look up at my last post. That's my analysis. But to elaborate.....
Aussies have this idea that we are the only ones who can laugh at ourselves, which is pretty damn arrogant!! Obviously we have 'true crime fans' (or IMO people who want to see justice served) here, because there's Aussie members on the board.
It's really that our media and laws are different, so our reactions to crimes we hear about on the news is less intense because it's not on every channel , updated and repeated every day.
But when the media does play on a certain topic our reactions are much the same.
For example when a notorious SO was released from jail last year and his location was leaked to media there was an uproar. Protesters were out in full force and said they would not leave until he was moved to a different location. Very similar scenes to the Anthony protestors. It played out on the news for about a week or two- he moved... case closed. But that is a pretty rare situation over here.
So it's the media thats different, not the people and their reactions.
As for my comment in my above post about the double standards of NG glorifying soldiers, while demonising alleged child killers, you have to understand that we didn't experience 9/11 the way you guys did.
We watched it play out on the news, and it broke our hearts, but it didn't happen to 'us'.
We don't have the death penalty here, most people (especially the ones who would go to the STC to see a production) don't support war and see all killing as immoral. A very PC, arty type crowd.
There are people here who do support war, and the death penalty. But we don't see them on the news, they just call in to talk-back radio. LOL
So again it's really no different from in the States....the varying opinions anyway .
Actually now that I think about it, the crimes that get the most coverage here are from the US. I read alot of true crime books, and can't believe how many murders happened here in my own country, that I had never even heard about because the media just doesn't cover it the way they do in the US.
The play was a reproduction of a real Nancy Grace episode, with a suburban CS scene thrown in that I believe was meant to be a slap of harsh reality. A reminder that Caylee was a real person who was murdered, and who was forgotten in NG's rehashing of the events, because her focus was on sensationalizing the murderer and her family, the plot of the 'story', breaking her 'bombshells', and not the loss of life of the victim Caylee Marie Anthony.
To be honest, if I wasn't a member here and hadn't read so many scathing reviews of NG's show from people in the US, I probably would have agreed with that journos opinion of Americans vs Aussies perceptions.
But reading here shows that opinions vary across the board regardless of what country you reside in.Sometimes we agree on certain things, and sometimes we disagree, but it's up to us to decide what our opinions are.
Which is why I don't undertstand why SS chose to decide for the American public that they wouldn't take kindly to the production.
Especially since it's basically just a
re-production of what most of you have already seen. In fact by now, if you did get a chance to see the show you'd probably be disappointed because you've already seen it play out on NG.
JMO