Growing Pains has, imo, a more dynamic/frenetic energy (and louder theme song) that makes it feel more modern than Family Ties, like I knew as a kid that the latter was a "finished" show but I wasn't at all sure about the former
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @della_morte_
Yeah I think Growing Pains was a show where you could watch the evolution from '80s to '90s TV sensibilities happening in real time
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The energy you're talking about is definitely why Growing Pains is the one the Disney Channel picked up to rerun all the time in the '90s
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Replying to @arthur_affect @della_morte_
It's ironic because Kirk Cameron was IRL the exact kind of little shit Michael J Fox was pretending to be
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @della_morte_
Well, not exactly, Alex P Keaton never got born again
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There was this puff piece that came out in 2008 where the creator of Family Ties, Gary David Goldberg, said he thought that Alex P. Keaton would be an Obama crossover voter (an "Obamican") Arguing that Alex was misguided not evil and would've felt out of place in the modern GOP
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Michael J. Fox, notably, disagreed and gave a simple quote that Alex would probably vote McCain/Palin because "he's an asshole"
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I think Fox disliked Keaton more than the writers did because he had to deal with people mistaking him for the character all the time for a while Also becoming disabled and having Limbaugh mock his disability may have hardened him against "compassionate conservatism"
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But either way, I mean, it's hard to imagine Alex getting excited about the idea of President Sarah Palin He might still have gone along with it, because he's an asshole, but he's no fundie
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That's the whole issue, like his whole character shtick is being wrapped up in the idea that he's rational, he's pragmatic, his politics are an expression of enlightened self-interest, and his parents' politics are bleeding-heart emotion-driven shallow sappiness
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It takes a lot of cognitive dissonance to think that and go to a party convention increasingly populated by weeping praying glossolaliac Jesus people
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Sadly, we can’t pick our fans.
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