I think it made for a sense of community that is lost now. Back in the day when you sat down to watch a movie Event, you knew millions of other people were watching it then too at the same time. Now we can watch what we want when we want, and we might be the only one in the world watching it at that time. It doesn't feel the same.
Get out of my head!
I've said this to others for years. Not to delve too deeply into my sad psyche, but as a teen, I got comfort watching primetime TV because of that community. Made my lonely adolescence a little less depressing.
Yeah. This and the internet basically made anyone with actual Knowledge from watching and rewatching the episodes obsolete in a sense. Any question you have could be answered by an internet source, and verified by multiple sources on the net. All the tribal knowledge was/is there.
Yeah. This and the internet basically made anyone with actual Knowledge from watching and rewatching the episodes obsolete in a sense. Any question you have could be answered by an internet source, and verified by multiple sources on the net. All the tribal knowledge was/is there.
That said, it does make the barrier of Entry easier for anyone who gets into it but wants to know more about it quickly.
I have to say I really don't know if it's destroyed the sense of 'community" or just changed it a bit.
I still find it funny though that a lot of the fans who grew up in this internet era can't believe we had methods of discussing and arguing the same points they do today without the internet.
Actual IP Magazine letter columns are a foreign entity that they can't wrap their head around, as well as Chain Letter groups and fan magazine groups that existed back in the day before the internet
Tldr: we pre-internet fans used a system called Snail Mail now, where thoughts were actually typed or written on actual pieces of paper and sent to others who then replied via the same method.
The gorn, my fave OTS episode.
Me too
Lol, i remember manimal.Get out of my head!
Luckily, I had no I idea just how few people were actually watching Manimal.....
Thats why im glad to find this. Such a cool community.
Lived way out in the country. Didnt have cable and never heard of a fanzine, until they were obsoleteYeah. This and the internet basically made anyone with actual Knowledge from watching and rewatching the episodes obsolete in a sense. Any question you have could be answered by an internet source, and verified by multiple sources on the net. All the tribal knowledge was/is there.
That said, it does make the barrier of Entry easier for anyone who gets into it but wants to know more about it quickly.
I have to say I really don't know if it's destroyed the sense of 'community" or just changed it a bit.
I still find it funny though that a lot of the fans who grew up in this internet era can't believe we had methods of discussing and arguing the same points they do today without the internet.
Actual IP Magazine letter columns are a foreign entity that they can't wrap their head around, as well as Chain Letter groups and fan magazine groups that existed back in the day before the internet
Tldr: we pre-internet fans used a system called Snail Mail now, where thoughts were actually typed or written on actual pieces of paper and sent to others who then replied via the same method.
But did you ever win a No-Prize?
