Ishmael
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I remember the first time I watched 'Crocodile Dundee.' Entertaining, and different considering the culture clash but hardly significantly different. But there was one scene/line in the film when he was ensconced in his hotel room and the TV was turned on and the show was "I Love Lucy." His remark was, "Yeah, I've seen TV before and the same thing was on."
I've been gifted/cursed with a fairly good memory and as time wears on there is very little that the writers can come up with that is new, and the same can be said of drama's. Change the faces, change the environment, take the same old set up and run the same old gags. Formula writing and it works with every new generation. My second wife used to accuse me of having seen the show before because I could deliver the punch line to the set up before the actor, problem being that it was a 'first run' show.
So I retreated into the commercials, the last refuge of inventiveness. What were they selling, how were they selling it? And now even the commercials have become re-runs just like the Hollywood make overs of '60's-70's TV series. So now I've retreated into documentaries. Not terribly entertaining, but informative without the formula writing and even so, those are wearing thin when the delve into politics. It seems to be the fad these days.
But sports, ahhh, the outcome is never known but often guessed. It's the engine that powers the betting industry. the last refuge of the surprise ending and the script that almost always has an unknown twist. No politics, no bullshit. But that one last refuge of escapism from politics and the mundane bullshit that accompanies it is being taken away. I can't wait to hear some dip-shit sports announcer to tie playing conditions on the field to 'climate change.' It's not a matter of 'if', only when if it hasn't already occurred.'
And then there's the 'New's.' What was once was a 25 word or less factual recitation has now become 700 words of commentary based on one element of fact. One factual element is dropped followed by a lecture as to what was really happening/being said.
What was that line from a Spingsteen song? "56 channels and nothing's on."
Ishmael
I've been gifted/cursed with a fairly good memory and as time wears on there is very little that the writers can come up with that is new, and the same can be said of drama's. Change the faces, change the environment, take the same old set up and run the same old gags. Formula writing and it works with every new generation. My second wife used to accuse me of having seen the show before because I could deliver the punch line to the set up before the actor, problem being that it was a 'first run' show.
So I retreated into the commercials, the last refuge of inventiveness. What were they selling, how were they selling it? And now even the commercials have become re-runs just like the Hollywood make overs of '60's-70's TV series. So now I've retreated into documentaries. Not terribly entertaining, but informative without the formula writing and even so, those are wearing thin when the delve into politics. It seems to be the fad these days.
But sports, ahhh, the outcome is never known but often guessed. It's the engine that powers the betting industry. the last refuge of the surprise ending and the script that almost always has an unknown twist. No politics, no bullshit. But that one last refuge of escapism from politics and the mundane bullshit that accompanies it is being taken away. I can't wait to hear some dip-shit sports announcer to tie playing conditions on the field to 'climate change.' It's not a matter of 'if', only when if it hasn't already occurred.'
And then there's the 'New's.' What was once was a 25 word or less factual recitation has now become 700 words of commentary based on one element of fact. One factual element is dropped followed by a lecture as to what was really happening/being said.
What was that line from a Spingsteen song? "56 channels and nothing's on."
Ishmael
