Blog # 4

All in the family, a show that portrayed a family dealing with different issues that metaphorically showed how society felt about certain ideas at that time. The episode we watched in class, about the “gay” issue in society made me think and   while I was watching this episode, I started recalling other shows that are similarly based. One that popped up was “That 70’s shows”, how in some episodes they try to deal with issues that maybe society is questioning. They both try to maybe change the way the public thinks and reacts to certain situations and make them a little more common.                                          In the other hand “That 70’s Show” shows the point of view of teenagers and how they deal with their thoughts and perceptions, while “All in the Family” is more conventional with the mom and dad and their views on what’s “right” and “wrong”. “That 70’s Shows” introduces the idea that people’s perception changes over time and how society may start seeing some ideas as common, that may had been controversial in the past. It also starts telling us how teenagers might start thinking differently than their parents.                                                                                                                                                                I am not a fan of “All in the Family” but from what I saw from the episode from class, they try to deal with issues in blunt kind of manner. While in “That 70’s Show” is more of everyone starts respecting how anyone feels about a given subject. They are both great shows for society but they present the information in their own way.