Remember when we watched TV?
There is a pre-emptive nostalgia about watching TV these days.
There was an episode of Angel in Channel 10, Saturday past midnight, a huge improvement over the chances of a Bad Cops impromptus. I had that goodby feeling that you get when without realising it things desapear from your life and you notice it because there is an echo or a smell.
I told my son that he is perhaps the first generation of non-tv viewers. Internet is the main source of cheap entertainment. For them, having to wait 7 days to watch their favourite show is unthinkable and I can't shake the amazing feeling that it was to tune in week after week season after season until years later you actually say godbye to the show and you somehow wave goodbye to those years that went by. STNG, Voyager, X-files, DS9, Xena, B5, Buffy, Angel and a few others were shown very consistently with slight changes to the air time and day.
Today the networks apparently under an increased pressure from stakeholders and ratings, trial new shows for a few episodes and unless the show is an inmediate hit it is taken to the graveyard timeslot when is lay to die and almost never resurrected.
TV is getting dumber by the minute, and people must be too or otherwise we would expect better shows and more of them consistently.
Not been a TV expert I wouldn't mind someone explaining to me how an infomercial is a better choice than any cult series, new and old? ok..leave the weight loss and the singing freaks in the peak time of the day, but at least keep the tradition of shows after 11pm going, even if only for the weird nostalgia effect that they produced when Angel catchs the periphery of your eye after midnight.
Nice ride this Saturday, Ale stayed studying and baking cakes, we bought her chocolate at Coco Black after we got our green juices at Coles. Perfect weather.
There was an episode of Angel in Channel 10, Saturday past midnight, a huge improvement over the chances of a Bad Cops impromptus. I had that goodby feeling that you get when without realising it things desapear from your life and you notice it because there is an echo or a smell.
I told my son that he is perhaps the first generation of non-tv viewers. Internet is the main source of cheap entertainment. For them, having to wait 7 days to watch their favourite show is unthinkable and I can't shake the amazing feeling that it was to tune in week after week season after season until years later you actually say godbye to the show and you somehow wave goodbye to those years that went by. STNG, Voyager, X-files, DS9, Xena, B5, Buffy, Angel and a few others were shown very consistently with slight changes to the air time and day.
Today the networks apparently under an increased pressure from stakeholders and ratings, trial new shows for a few episodes and unless the show is an inmediate hit it is taken to the graveyard timeslot when is lay to die and almost never resurrected.
TV is getting dumber by the minute, and people must be too or otherwise we would expect better shows and more of them consistently.
Not been a TV expert I wouldn't mind someone explaining to me how an infomercial is a better choice than any cult series, new and old? ok..leave the weight loss and the singing freaks in the peak time of the day, but at least keep the tradition of shows after 11pm going, even if only for the weird nostalgia effect that they produced when Angel catchs the periphery of your eye after midnight.
Nice ride this Saturday, Ale stayed studying and baking cakes, we bought her chocolate at Coco Black after we got our green juices at Coles. Perfect weather.
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