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MVPScheer123r8 t1_j6fojj4 wrote

First off, no you haven't. At least not from people who actually care about good television.

Secondly, you could just as easily have searched this on google and found other reddit posts where people have asked the exact same thing about this show and gotten your answers from there. Which it seems like you've already done if you've kept hearing it's one of the best. Because people around the water cooler are definitely not talking about it anymore considering it ended like 4 years ago. So I'm not sure why you felt you needed to ask the same damn question yourself on your own post where it sounds like you already had your answer from the masses.

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Darmok47 t1_j6fo5wo wrote

If you were an adult in the late 80s through mid 90s, you could have been a part of the writer's room. They had an open submissions policy; they would take scripts from anyone. Ronald D. Moore, who ended up as a TNG and DS9 producer, was some random guy working a dead end job when he submitted a script to Paramount.

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MVPScheer123r8 t1_j6fnx64 wrote

Maybe I'm misremembering here, but I'm pretty sure it only seriously retcons one thing and that one thing is possibly the greatest twist in the history of television. Mainly because it's something we all should have seen coming and was right in front of our noses the entire time, but nobody actually figured it out. That's the mark of an excellent twist.

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Darmok47 t1_j6fnd5a wrote

Apparently , Baywatch's demographics were 65% women.

>The audience was 65 percent female,[11] with its number one audience being women aged 18 to 34. Speaking in 2001, Schwartz explained that, after doing focus groups on Baywatch for about five years, they learned that the show appealed to this demographic because "most of [its] lead characters were strong, independent women who were heroic, who were saving lives, who were equal to men".[12]

I was a kid when Baywatch was on, but I do remember the jokes on Friends about Chandler and Joey watching it for Pam Anderson and Yasmine Bleeth running in slow motion.

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