Opus,

"That would be original" I have a real problem with this ideia. Originality can be in lots of places in a drama; it can be on the way characters can be portrayed, the way cameras are used, etc. Originality is as good as it helps to better give shape to the experience the drama is trying to say, because it is not a end in itself its a way to it you portrait something.

Even with you don't like football - I'm from Brazil (land of soccer), and have a hard time trying to understand these crazy game where men jump on each other - I can relate to tragedy (bad things that happen to good people), loving the impossible girl, being under pressure to deliver, etc. These show is about the internal world of the characters, and for that you don't need a original plot, just that the characters are shown as avarage people, with normal problems.

Originality for the sake of it, is a kind fetisch.

Friday Night Lights is a show about the human spirit. Football is just a scenario on these series about a bunch of kids, and girls, becoming men and women. You like the characters, love how they are just like your friend next door - or maybe yourself, even - you will love how coach Taylor is a man you would like to have as your kids teacher.

Brilhant TV.

"3/4 of their problems would be solved if they just got rid of the dam football team. "

I don't know about real schools, but in the show the football team works as a simbol of lives meaning; something that puts actions that are aparently incoherient into a meaning. Try to re-watch it thinking not of football, but life.

"Peter Berg's production values are superb" Yes, this even remember me that when I was watching The Kindom I notice something familiar to it and then I found out that Berg was the director. He knows how to create the mood to give his characters root for their actions. A solid director and producer.

Very good ideia. Should be done!

That kind of statement is of great help.
Thanks for that.

"Dyson is a more sophisticated thinker than you, better read, and more articulate"

Well, I think that says more about your education - or the non-existence, of it - than that of Mr Breitbart.

as they say: GO WAY TROLL!

Dear Mr. Breitbart,

I think what you did was a very good effort. It's true a fight must be done. The only problem is the arms you are using. Conservatives have lots of venues to express their opinion - not as much as liberals, but still good -, but when you go a place like the Real time you have to know that the important thing is not debate - won't be any debate, liberals don't do that - but to attack.

"if Bubbe ever tried to make the consumption of pork and shellfish illegal, I would then label her as a religious crazy."

That questions is who, and how we decide what should be legal?

"who wants to impose, by force of law, religious doctrine on society"

And what about the laws who want to impose atheists doctrine on society?
Liberty is a important concept, but not a absolute one. Someone has to draw the limits; what you are really saying is that you have a problem wiht religious boundaries, something that is not a real argument.