Subject: Stay At Home Viewing
Posted by: Godwit
Date: Apr 25 20
Curious, what are you watching while the world spins around us?
What's your favorite thing about it? Does it help you get through?
Posted by: Godwit
Date: Apr 25 20
Curious, what are you watching while the world spins around us?
What's your favorite thing about it? Does it help you get through?
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I never watch an entire season at once, preferring to watch each program once a week, to let the episodes 'settle'. Reply #521. Nov 03 20, 7:10 PM |
Godwit
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Just like food. Some gulp. Some sip. Happily each can have his or her preference, these days. Thanks for the note about the Durrells! In my mind over the decades I'd combined the two writers. For me each character in "The Durrells" TV show is predictable. Yet the family interactions are entertaining. I have trouble remembering which episode I was on, in which show. Reply #522. Nov 03 20, 9:27 PM |
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Absolutely! Remember, back in the day, when you had a handful of stations, and if you missed a show, it was forever missed, unless you managed to catch it in Summer repeats? Much nicer now, especially since entertainment outside the home isn't safe. We can see so much, and on our own schedules :-) Reply #523. Nov 03 20, 10:06 PM |
imahogg
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We were just talking the other day about when we had three and a half channels (our PBS was REALLY fuzzy) and became ecstatic when we got cable and had all of seven! Now we have about 200 channels and 10-12 streaming services and complain that we have nothing to watch. Reply #524. Nov 04 20, 4:29 PM |
samak
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Maybe Pink Floyd's lyric from The Wall needs to be updated: "I've got thirteen channels of s**t on the T.V. to choose from" Now we have 200 channels of the same, most of them cooking shows and Unreality shows Reply #525. Nov 05 20, 11:49 PM |
FatherSteve
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"When television is good, nothing — not the theater, not the magazines or newspapers — nothing is better. But when television is bad, nothing is worse. I invite each of you to sit down in front of your television set when your station goes on the air and stay there for a day without a book, without a magazine, without a newspaper, without a profit and loss sheet or a rating book to distract you. Keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that what you will observe is a vast wasteland." ~Newton Minnow, Former Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission Reply #526. Nov 06 20, 12:06 PM |
| Godwit
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Back a ways I had been watching some fabulous movie (entirely forget which one, now). It was almost over when the President came on. You'll remember that if the President wanted to speak all channels accommodated him. By time he was done my movie was over. And there was no way to see the ending. No rewind, record, replay, or purchase it in Hulu. I was mad about that for decades. Now, most shows I don't care a whit if I miss half a show or half a season. It's always available. Those were good old days, when a show was an event, gone if you missed it. Reply #527. Nov 06 20, 3:41 PM |
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Have to agree though, on the other hand, there's some stellar plots, special effects, camera work and characters out there now. Great history and documentaries and...well. Every thing. Reply #528. Nov 06 20, 3:46 PM |
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How do you all keep track of which episodes you've seen, on various shows you are watching at once? Reply #529. Nov 06 20, 7:54 PM |
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When we watch an entire series on demand, my sweet bride opens a tiny spreadsheet on her cellphone and tracks what we've seen on it. Clever girl! Reply #530. Nov 07 20, 1:06 PM |
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FatherSteve-- seems like you special-ordered her. :) Rather by accident I saw an old movie, "Best Seller". A hit man wants to publish a tell-all biography, and insists a cop do the writing. So-so storyline, but entertaining twists and decent acting. I want to laugh so I'll watch a master of funny, Mel Brooks, soon. What's your favorite of his? Reply #531. Nov 07 20, 10:07 PM |
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My adult son and I can pretty much run ALL of the lines in "Young Frankenstein" ... which is likely why no one else in the family will watch it with us. Reply #532. Nov 08 20, 2:16 AM |
C30
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Anyone watching 3rd series of Star Trek - Discovery? Jury Out............IMO 1st Episode passable, 2nd quite good, 3rd....frankly boring, confusing and uninteresting. Got next series of "The Crown" coming up...........enjoyed the previous ones. Reply #533. Nov 08 20, 3:52 AM |
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LOL that's horrible FatherSteve. Must be like watching Rocky Horror Picture Show with a crowd. Similarly my housemate is an opera singer and seems to know every song there ever was, most of which she can't keep from singing if they come on radio or TV. Even commercials. All the theater of course. We watched The Producers remake last night. I was so impressed with Matthew Broderick. Who knew he can sing, dance, and act. I do love me some Young Frankensteen. Reply #534. Nov 09 20, 8:28 PM |
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I need to try The Crown. Several others have recommended it. Sorry Discovery is disappointing. :( Reply #535. Nov 09 20, 8:28 PM |
| imahogg
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"The Crown" is a great choice, Godwit. And Season 4 starts November 15, I think. I watched most of "Band of Brothers" again last night (for about the fifth or sixth time). My wife watched the entire thing, and when I woke this morning, she was just finishing "The Pacific." I don't know how she does it. She puts my pitiful binging to shame. Reply #536. Nov 10 20, 9:04 AM |
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I forgot to add another thought about the channels and streaming: Just think how terrible it would have been if the pandemic had struck twenty years ago--no streaming! Or fifty years ago, three channels? A lot more people would be going mad, that's for sure. Reply #537. Nov 10 20, 9:06 AM |
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re 537 - .............that would be 1970..........I was 28! No multitude of TV channels, many people still using Black & White TV sets, no Internet, no FT to entertain us........... Reply #538. Nov 11 20, 10:55 AM |
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Oh............and the bike in my avatar would have been brand new being a 1970 model. Reply #539. Nov 11 20, 10:57 AM |
| Godwit
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That's interesting to think about. We'd be much more on the radio, I think. People were more used to playing games together indoors, singing together, piano, scrabble--my parents practiced elocution and storytelling as youngsters, everyone did-- kids had tons of places to play outside. The pantry was full of baking goods--though less than 1950s by far --and some had kitchen gardens. Walking distance to stores, for many. But especially for those alone at home, pretty darn quiet in 1970. Not a lot of international news, either. No FaceBook. Egads, no Zoom to work in from home. It would make a good book, Imahogg, to shift the pandemic to a different year. Reply #540. Nov 11 20, 11:55 AM |
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