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So I've been watching a lot of older TV and noticing how much slower it is
and I was, like, wondering if some people just find things too whizzy fast now and stop at some point?
And then I realised, I haven't actually watched any new broadcast TV this calendar year.

Agents of SHIELD finished, and I didn't like the most recent Doctor Who, and everything I've watched lately was filmed last century.

... am I one of them people I was wondering about?
Like, I didn't sit down and think, this is why I don't like the new stuff, but somehow I've been watching all this old stuff from liking it better...




Eh, I've watched a lto of cartoons, they're not known for their slow. And movies.
I think it's more like that I got out the habit of watching TV because interesting things are out on DVD eventually and I'll probably notice them then, and half the time I don't know what's on or what's starting so I miss half a season and can't be bothered to catch up.

... also I tend to watch older TV on fast forward.
Probably speed is not the problem.



The sneaking feeling I'm being left behind by technology and even pop culture is not a pleasant one though.

Date: 2015-07-13 06:25 am (UTC)
elf: Computer chip with location dot (You Are Here)
From: [personal profile] elf
Newer TV is fast, in part, because they expect everyone who really likes the show to buy the DVDs and rewatch it, and catch all the details they didn't notice the first time through. (People who miss those details and don't care to watch it again? Meh; not an important part of the revenue stream.)

People who want slower, modern TV? Watch reality shows. (Shudder. Twitch.) Those are the shows that are allowed to meander around a point, instead of slamming the viewer with Message and Joke Dammit You Will Laugh Now and Special Effects.

Date: 2015-07-12 10:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kerkevik-2014.livejournal.com
Interesting that we posted very similar things minutes apart http://kerkevik-2014.livejournal.com/39314.html

Only TV made this century I've watched as TV was with my nephew. Tried to watch Nu Who, but gave up before the end of S2; ironically after two of it's best eps, which proved to me that this show wasn't my show. Did watch S5, but that was because Amy & Rory really.

Managed to get a bunch of old shows off You Tube, which I'm looking forward to revisiting as well.

ds9_rewatch in another hour and a half as well.

kerk

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