Talk:Boston Public

Removing quote
Deleted the following:

"'While the show's writers clearly had a center-left bias, the show took great pains to present all sides of a particular issue and often times made suggestions and ideas that were mostly liberal in nature.'"

I don't know what sort of planet this guy lives on, but any show that vilifies guns, advocates government intervention in parenting matters, and misuses statistics to label the entirety of public education as some sort of racially-biased old boys club to keep non-whites from graduating can not be considered even close to libertarian. I've watched the series through multiple times. I love it, it's good drama, but it's absolute rubbish as far as reality and political reasoning are concerned. I just watched Chapter 21 again, and about the only thing the writers and directors could have done to make the gun dealer Lauren Davis talked to seem more evil and kill-happy would have been to give him horns and hang mounted human heads around the shop. Not to mention the triumph we were supposed to feel over Harry Senate's ridiculous anti-NRA tirade in Chapter Seven. Show me a single instance of libertarian viewpoint, and we'll talk, but otherwise, this section is gone.

I thought that the little person hiding in the locker room once talked about something that sounded libertarian; school vouchers or something like that. The series also seemed to endorse the notion that students have a right to pray in school. Along with freedom of speech issues and some gay rights issues.

I mean, for Pete's sake, it takes place in a PUBLIC SCHOOL. That's point number one against calling it libertarian.

SavMan 23:09, 13 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Who said anything about libertarian? Captain Quirk (talk) 02:02, 27 August 2018 (UTC)

Rewrites needed
Whoever wrote many of the character summaries for this article was on a serious snarky streak. Could someone who knows something about the show (I don't) fix the summaries to make them less conversational and more NPOV? Chris 00:26, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

I did some of the contributing there, and also some of the cleanup after i read these comments. This was the first wikipedia entry I ever did and I was sort of going with the flow (I do some tv critiquing professionally, so I guess it came through.) Anyhow, hope it's better now.- a contributor 12-19

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Liberal Soapbox???
Modified the following: "The series often served as a soapbox about various contemporary issues, with a mostly liberal perspective." Took out the last part. There are other sections of the article discussing the assertations by SOME critics that THEY percieved it as having a "liberal" bias. To overtly state a conclusion (the status of the show as being liberal is a conclusion) requiers supporting evidence or else be in a section that discusses specific veiwpoints. Therefore, let's keep the article clean of any mention of political bias and leave the specific accusations and responses to the supposed liberal viewpoints of the show to those respective and separate areas of the article. Thelastemperor 00:08, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Created episode list
For your info, I am creating an episode list for Boston Public. As of now, I have Season One listed, with Seasons 2-4 on the way soon. Also, there are no summaries there, so someone may add it later.. Anyway, here is page: List of Boston Public episodes Illyria05 (Talk • Contributions) 18:26, 21 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Okay, just to let people know, I've completed the episode list, and in the future, I may create single episode pages for the show, but I'd need support from people to write in the summaries as well..

Illyria05 (Talk • Contributions) 04:41, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Accent
Not one character on this show sounded like a real Bostonian. At least Cheers had Cliff. I'd add this to the criticism section, but I don't know of any real critics who've brought this up. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Huphelmeyer (talk • contribs) 03:20, 13 October 2007 (UTC)


 * I noticed that back when the show first began airing. And I was only 13 years old! There HAS to be a TV critic out there who mentioned it somewhere. The key is finding it.Hsxeric (talk) 03:07, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

Cast section placement.
Doesn't the Cast/character section generally come after the plot outline but before everything else? —Preceding unsigned comment added by LafinJack (talk • contribs) 06:28, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

Looking for help writing an article about the spin-offs and crossovers of this series
I am writing an article about all of the series which are in the same shared reality as this one through spin-offs and crossovers. I could use a little help expanding the article since it is currently extremely dense and a bit jumbled with some sentence structures being extremely repetitive. I would like to be able to put this article into article space soon. Any and all help in writing the article would be appreciated, even a comment or two on the talk page would help. Please give it a read through, also please do not comment here since I do not have all of the series on my watch list. - LA @ 16:14, 16 March 2008 (UTC)