It was an interesting little piece. Just a blurb, really. However, it sounded very scripted, especially the little girl. Not a natural, thoughts-off-the-top-of-your-head type of piece but a I'm-reading-off-a-script type of piece. It didn't really last long enough to inform or provoke very many thoughts and it couldn't pull me in since it was so short. It's the kind of piece I'd probably ignore or switch the station during unless my hands couldn't reach the dial/buttons. Nothing terrible about it but nothing really great about it either. It was just too short to take seriously. Perhaps it's supposed to start a person thinking about their definition of "family" and go off where the piece ends. But the piece had too much self-awareness about it, as if it was saying "aren't I such a cute little thought provoking piece?" and it turned me off.
Review of My Family
Julie S
Posted on August 09, 2004 at 08:52 PM
It was an interesting little piece. Just a blurb, really. However, it sounded very scripted, especially the little girl. Not a natural, thoughts-off-the-top-of-your-head type of piece but a I'm-reading-off-a-script type of piece. It didn't really last long enough to inform or provoke very many thoughts and it couldn't pull me in since it was so short. It's the kind of piece I'd probably ignore or switch the station during unless my hands couldn't reach the dial/buttons. Nothing terrible about it but nothing really great about it either. It was just too short to take seriously. Perhaps it's supposed to start a person thinking about their definition of "family" and go off where the piece ends. But the piece had too much self-awareness about it, as if it was saying "aren't I such a cute little thought provoking piece?" and it turned me off.