>>533954831Rockford lived in a trailer on a parking lot. Magnum lived on someone else's estate (in the guest house). Yet these were some of the most manly men on TV. What were they trying to tell us?
When I was growing up, nobody had divorced parents. Then I later read the statistic was like 50%. So whenever I watched movies or shows I just found it all to be an anomaly, like when Spielberg did it in every movie.
>>533954963I suppose they wanted us to have heroes who weren't conventionally rich and successful so we'd be less demoralized. It was a different time.
>>533955078Makes sense to me.
My father was an egotistical bastard because he was on the lowest rung of society (low skilled labor) and didn't want his children to surpass him
>>533954831Rockford was beat up by midget after a traffic accident when he rear ended the clown car. It was all over the news.
>>533957005Show the article or shut up. Pedophile
Sonny lived on a boat, I have no idea where Crockett lived. Jessica Fletcher lived in a nice Victorian with lots of doilys. >>533955897Sorry about that.
>>533957005Garner had both his knees replaced in his 40s, look at how much pain he is in running around as Rockford
>>533955078Good episode. I think it might be the first time a main character killed a defenseless guy on tv.
>>533955078https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIaXl7SqkBw
>>533958995To me and my dad Magnum PI is kind of gay. He said you'd watch it if it was on at night but it was more for chicks. Rockford files is more manly. Even though Magnum cucks Rockford in his first TV appearances before getting his spinoff. Actually Magnum PI is basically the beginning of the end of real masculinity and the start of performative masculinity
>>533958833>>533959244What do you think
>>533959901Maybe the end of an era of masculinity, if that's what you mean. Tom Selleck would fit right in with the previous generation of men on tv, but the script wrote him as a playboy with a loud mouth and a fast car. That was what was popular at the time. Look at the larger picture of what was happening in hollywood though. Leading men had already been changing for at least a decade at that point. Paul Newman and Sean Connery don't have much in common with Harrison Ford and Al Pacino.
>>533961032They've been walking us down the ladder decade by decade haven't they until we've arrived at Paul dano and timothee chalamet, and the big bang theory cast.
