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  1. 11-08-2022, 03:07 AM #1711
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    I like to watch retro TV shows like Perry Mason! Part of the 'fun' is seeing how much has changed since the 50's -- when police line-ups and photo arrays were filled with confirmation bias; how police questioned suspects before Miranda Rights; and how court witnesses were sworn in without having to put their hand on the bible or say "swear to God".

    The other old show I like is 'Emergency!' that started in 1970. Before there was 911, let alone cell phones or smart phones, and when fire dept. parmedics was a new-fangled experiment. omg the ambulances looked like hearses and the paramedics had to get physician approval to start an IV. The first generation cervical collars were sand bags + tape, and their fire rescue equipment was a bunch of hemp ropes and carabiners, sometimes a mask and O2 tank. It's crazy to realize how much has improved since then. It makes the old shows almost comical.

    btw Julie London (nurse Dixie) has a great album history, and she was married to Bobby Troup (Dr. Early) who was a jazz musician (and also appeared in some Perry Mason episodes).
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  2. 11-11-2022, 05:32 AM #1712
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    Is anyone else watching season 5 of the Crown and finding it a bit boring? It pretty much turned into the Charles and Diana files. And it feels even more than before as an attempt at writing history. Tbh, I don't remember if they put up a disclaimer, but it would be a lie, now more than ever.
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  3. 11-11-2022, 05:34 AM #1713
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lewkowski View Post
    HOTD is so damn good.
    I think I will agree.
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  4. 11-11-2022, 05:36 AM #1714
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    Quote Originally Posted by GGT View Post
    I like to watch retro TV shows like Perry Mason! Part of the 'fun' is seeing how much has changed since the 50's -- when police line-ups and photo arrays were filled with confirmation bias; how police questioned suspects before Miranda Rights; and how court witnesses were sworn in without having to put their hand on the bible or say "swear to God".

    The other old show I like is 'Emergency!' that started in 1970. Before there was 911, let alone cell phones or smart phones, and when fire dept. parmedics was a new-fangled experiment. omg the ambulances looked like hearses and the paramedics had to get physician approval to start an IV. The first generation cervical collars were sand bags + tape, and their fire rescue equipment was a bunch of hemp ropes and carabiners, sometimes a mask and O2 tank. It's crazy to realize how much has improved since then. It makes the old shows almost comical.

    btw Julie London (nurse Dixie) has a great album history, and she was married to Bobby Troup (Dr. Early) who was a jazz musician (and also appeared in some Perry Mason episodes).
    Interesting how you manage to watch these old shows. I have the experience that almost without fail these old shows look too silly to even bother.
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  5. 11-12-2022, 11:12 PM #1715
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    Quote Originally Posted by Aimless View Post
    Finally gotten around to watching Babylon 5
    This explains many things!

    And yet also perplexes!
    In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
    The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
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  6. 11-12-2022, 11:48 PM #1716
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    Also, I as the last remnant of national socialism, recommend Interview with The Vampire. Those fellows sure show racists what is up!
    In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
    The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
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  7. 11-13-2022, 06:01 PM #1717
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    Quote Originally Posted by Nessus View Post
    This explains many things!

    And yet also perplexes!
    gave up after a few episodes
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  8. 11-13-2022, 06:17 PM #1718
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    What about Space: 1999?

    Babylon 5 at least isn't very problematic in the modern sense that there isn't that much casual racism, as in say Stargåte: SG-1

    You might find the character arc of a certain mister Garibaldi amusing given everything that happened after mister Trump's wild escalator ride, but that would entail actually investing time and we already know how that works out
    In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
    The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
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  9. 11-13-2022, 07:31 PM #1719
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    I'm trying to think and I honestly can't come up with a television series that does not reward on some level being aware of the previous episodes. Even sitcoms such as Frasier remind the viewer that indeed Niles is unhappy in his marriage, that Niles lusts after Daphne, and that Niles is married to an impossibly skinny woman. Is there a television programme one may simply sit down to enjoy, as presented, without foreknowledge or indeed the expectation that they might need to carry any recognition from one scene to the next?

    Even the news requires, on some level, that the viewer is cognizant of some basic things such as geography and what constitutes "cold" when speaking of the weather.
    In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
    The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
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  10. 11-13-2022, 08:14 PM #1720
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    Also, as a doctor of medicine, you are being majorly ableist in dismissing the first season of the show, given what we know of Michael O'Hare.
    In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
    The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
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  11. 11-20-2022, 02:50 AM #1721
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hazir View Post
    Interesting how you manage to watch these old shows. I have the experience that almost without fail these old shows look too silly to even bother.
    You sound like my kids, who think anything made in B & W is old and boring. Not enough action or CGI special effects to hold their attention, or something. I like to watch for the social cues, everything from fashion trends to gender roles; it's like comparative literature meets modern theater, just on the small screen, compressed into 60 minute plots. Plus, there's really no new theme at all, it's just Shakespeare in different clothes and back-drops....simply entertainment
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  12. 11-20-2022, 08:15 PM #1722
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    Quote Originally Posted by Nessus View Post
    This explains many things!

    And yet also perplexes!
    How did I miss him saying that? Welcome to the B5 club, Aimless! The 5-season boxed set was the very next thing I purchased when I got my first DVD player in college back in the early 00s.

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    gave up after a few episodes

    What? No! Keep going. It gets better, I promise.
    Last night as I lay in bed, looking up at the stars, I thought, “Where the hell is my ceiling?"
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  13. 01-27-2023, 07:58 PM #1723
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    finally got around to seeing Only Murders in the Building and I wanna know why people investigating a murder—in a building they share with a murderer—never look through the peephole before opening the door

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    What? No! Keep going. It gets better, I promise.
    I'm gonna check out the highlights at 1.5x speed
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  14. 01-29-2023, 07:25 AM #1724
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    The Last of Us is pretty good, but since I never played the game it better amp up pretty fast or I may lose interest.

    David Attenborough narrating nature series never fails. Love love love his voice. And the photography/videography is always amazing and stupendous.
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