People can't wait to post a negative experience about a person or product, yet that seldom gets attention. This post is no different, he posted his opinion and you jump in his guts! It's not the greatest "show", but did you ever think it may be drawing attention to pool that we don't want? Non pool players or those interested in the sport may see it as negative or possibly a "you mean this is supposed to get me to play pool?!?". It's a great effort, bit it's simply not enough....or that great.
This is my opinion, feel free to bash me....Which speaks volumes of how some of the pool community is looked upon. We trash each other over the dumbest things, yet we want to be perceived as "promoting" our sport/hobby. It ain't working.
I want to answer this because you bring up an interesting point. In the first place, if the show never deals with anything other than what pool players like to watch, then it will never be seen by anyone else but pool players. The stories are about people who happen to play pool. Things happen to everyone and things happen to these characters as well.
My goal is to go outside of the pool world and get people used to seeing the pool environment and realize that there are a lot of interesting things that go on in a pool room, as well as showing the beauty of modern poolrooms and the game. Some of the people who watch Sharks who don't play pool are always extremely impressed with the pool shots that are shown, even though most of us have seen them before and are pretty much blase about it. This is not bad for pool.
With a steady supply of highly viewed murder mysteries on TV and in theaters, I don't think I'm out of line to try for some of that audience. Much of this series tries to deal with situations that arise in the pool setting. If it isn't your thing, I totally understand. There are millions of videos that just show pool games.
thanks,
Jim
