Re: Does John C. Wright (The Golden Age) have a website or Forum??

In article <e0jp1i$kdb$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
James Nicoll <jdnicoll@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Archie Bunker was a character from a 1970s sitcom who
was an unashamed (and mostly unaware) bigot*, until the writers
nicefied him, lord know why. ....

James Nicoll


I don't know, but I'd strongly suspect that it was not so much the
writers as CoC who was a "name" by then, and probably wanted to
play a "nicer" Archie. Actors are not always the best judges of
direction for their characters..

(To be fair, this is not completely implausible as people of Archie's
generation did a lot of changing over the years. "Not completely
implausible" is not the same as "good TV" though.)

Ted
.

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