The Hardy Boys - The final chapter (1998)

Re:The Hardy Boys - The final chapter (1998) by darinpantley on Sunday September 19, 2010 @04:02AM (#1705836)

If people like bad media, does that make it good? Or do we just have poor taste?

"Good" seems to be a combination of "quality" and "entertaining". Funny how we talk about these bad books, movies, and other media as if their literal quality were their only value.

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Re:The Hardy Boys - The final chapter (1998) by brandnewlow on Sunday September 19, 2010 @07:13AM (#1705982)

Created things can aim to inspire and challege (art) or they can seek to comfort and warm (pop art). That Hardy Boys was great pop art. The books didn't challenge or inspire, however they did make you feel comforted, safe, and protected. The mystery got solved, all the threads got tied up in the end. Nice. Neat. Comforting.

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Re:The Hardy Boys - The final chapter (1998) by dschobel on Sunday September 19, 2010 @09:17AM (#1706074)

It could still be comforting and not lousy though.

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Re:The Hardy Boys - The final chapter (1998) by dschobel on Sunday September 19, 2010 @06:37AM (#1705957)

What value does fiction have beyond artistic? Fire-wood?

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Re:The Hardy Boys - The final chapter (1998) by joshuacc on Monday September 20, 2010 @08:20AM (#1708512)

Entertainment seems like a worthy value to me.

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