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That is O.K. I was a late bloomer until my18th birthday, but then..it was on!Braggart. <hehehe>
That is O.K. I was a late bloomer until my18th birthday, but then..it was on!Braggart. <hehehe>
Nowadays, with 300+ channels to choose from, it can't possibly be harder to find something worth watching than back in the day. That is, if it's true that back in the day there were three channels - one per network. Now, I agree with the general premise that it's really hard to find something worth watching on TV. To me, the "golden era" of television was the 80s - cartoons were never better. I don't really watch TV anymore, though. The internet has replaced TV in my life.
From what I can gather on watching TV in its infancy, watching TV was something of a family event. Since there was by and large nothing worth watching, people didn't sit around it so much. Now, if astronauts were landing on the moon, or the president was making an address, then everyone would huddle around. That's the image I have in my head as put forward by shows like The Wonder Years. I'm not sure if the state of TV is in decline or ascent.
Nothing to watch vs nothing good to watch: At the end of the day, you're not happy watching TV. Seems like an even break at best.
It can be used for evil, but I do think in the bigger picture it has had it better use for good.Sure it can be evil, but it has also opened up to me information I would never have the time to cull from more traditional sources. In that regard it is far from evil.
I can observe so much truth to what you say, but it may be some of the programming that you are afforded is not the same where I reside. In fact I am sure of that.I'm less anti-television than most in these parts, it seems. I never seem to have a problem finding great stuff to watch. Sure, it's in the minority, but then I suspect if we didn't look at the past with rose-tinted glasses so often we might discover it wasn't much different all along. Certainly with other forms of entertainment, such as cinema or music, there has always been a high proportion of dross - it just doesn't last, and is forgotten about, while we remember the better stuff. Fifty years from now the yet-to-be-born 2010s retroheads will no doubt fetishise a version of now that those of us who lived through it find unrecognisable.
You can filter the water out of a sluice basin to make it drinkable -- but why waste your time? Turn the TV off and read a book. Play with your cat. Listen to some good music. Or patronize your local independent movie theatre.
I'm less anti-television than most in these parts, it seems. I never seem to have a problem finding great stuff to watch. Sure, it's in the minority, but then I suspect if we didn't look at the past with rose-tinted glasses so often we might discover it wasn't much different all along. Certainly with other forms of entertainment, such as cinema or music, there has always been a high proportion of dross - it just doesn't last, and is forgotten about, while we remember the better stuff. Fifty years from now the yet-to-be-born 2010s retroheads will no doubt fetishise a version of now that those of us who lived through it find unrecognisable.
Yes indeed, I do read and love it, the movies are also a part of enjoyment. Thanks, kiddo!You can filter the water out of a sluice basin to make it drinkable -- but why waste your time? Turn the TV off and read a book. Play with your cat. Listen to some good music. Or patronize your local independent movie theatre.
Yes, it can be a time-waster, but,
I don't have the kind of time, or job, where I'm able to sit in front of the pooter all day, so I read when I have the spare few minutes. If you genuinely have that kind of time, or job, then I guess it's not really wasting time. Rather, it's filling time.
Yep, I agree. Not everything on television in the fifties and early sixties was quality viewing. I'm old enough to remember some real stinkers that came about in television's "Golden Era". Anybody remember My Mother the Car? How about My Living Doll? It's About Time?
AF
Yeah, I watched all three of those, and they were stinkers...but Julie Newmar was one living doll...
Yep, I agree. Not everything on television in the fifties and early sixties was quality viewing. I'm old enough to remember some real stinkers that came about in television's "Golden Era". Anybody remember My Mother the Car? How about My Living Doll? It's About Time?
AF
I think it's a sign of declining standards that the mid-sixties are considered by anyone to be "The Golden Age of Television" ...
And as that misnomer-ed "Golden Age" slouched toward the '70s, it churned out a bottom-of-the-(monkey) barrel show: LANCELOT LINK: SECRET CHIMP.
Think Matt Helm -- but with dressed, made-up, and bewigged real live chimpanzees. Inexplicably, the mess was penned by the head writers of The Carole Burnett Show, would really should've known better.
It turns out that re-runs of this show were exported and shown all over the world, especially to European and developing countries. Arrghh!
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Amen. Just comes into every thread to get a wedge in. Nothing of substance, or inline with the spirit of any threads. Take a jab, run.
I used to love that show when I was a kid! I even had a Lancelot Link lunch box! lol
Yep, I agree. Not everything on television in the fifties and early sixties was quality viewing. I'm old enough to remember some real stinkers that came about in television's "Golden Era". Anybody remember My Mother the Car? How about My Living Doll? It's About Time?
AF