You know you have reached the completely obsessed level when you find yourself listening to 10 hour long youtube videos of the station humming sound to go to sleep...not saying I've ever done that..........
Thinking DS9 all of the time?
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You know you have reached the completely obsessed level when you find yourself listening to 10 hour long youtube videos of the station humming sound to go to sleep...not saying I've ever done that..........
Mmm, I'll have to figure out how to do that.
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Honestly, my love of Trek has waned over the years. I still think DS9 is one of TV's best shows, but it's no longer the best thing out there.
DS9 ended in 1999, the same year The Sopranos came out and changed everything. Since then, we've had so many great shows with dialogue, direction, and character building way beyond what any Trek offered, so I watch it less and less.
DS9 ended in 1999, the same year The Sopranos came out and changed everything. Since then, we've had so many great shows with dialogue, direction, and character building way beyond what any Trek offered, so I watch it less and less.
Don't. You. Dare.
Mmm, I've never seen The Sopranos.
Don't think trek as much as I used to, I come back around to it lots, but probably disc golf is what I think about most.
I've had similar feelings about all the great shows that have come out over the years that you could honestly say where better made than anything in the 1990's. To me though the shows people love are not always the best shows in theory on tv. Some shows just feel more special for reasons you can't always describe and they make you want to visit them more than even better made shows that might be out their. Some of it might have to do with nostigia or a genre you prefer or a few characters or even the show's basic premise. I don't think any of the "Star Trek" shows can hold a candle to "Sopranos" or "Breaking Bad" and a whole host of shows but to me Trek still feels more special. Maybe it's because I became a fan at a time when I was depressed or it's just more fun to visit a world that isn't the present day. You know a show is special to you when you still watch the bad episodes from time to time.
Jason
As much as DS9 shares qualities of current serialized TV, it is still more of a product of action television that started in the 1970s. I think it is telling that even as the writers knew that they were doing things that were different, they were still taken aback by The Sopranos.
Whats weird to me is people should have even predicted this trend before "Sopranos" with "The Larry Sanders Show" and "OZ."
Jason
I've been rewatching Frasier recently, a show which arguably was also a harbinger of modern TV with witty dialogue and tightly written scripts as well as a somewhat accepting attitude toward homosexuality, but it had almost no continuity.
That was a good choice and I would even say FOX was kind of pre-HBO type of place. You weren't going to get The Simpsons,X-FIles,In Living Color,Married With Children etc on NBC,CBS, or ABC for the most part unless it was A Stephen Bocho show or that rare jewel that would sometimes happen like "Twin Peaks,Northern Exposure, My So Called Life.
Jason
I am certain we are all a therapist's wet dream
Okay as above I've never seen Sopranos or Breaking bad.
But generally I watch TV to escape the here and now.
Give me Harry Potter, Trek, science fiction, vampires, any kind of magic school.
If I want death and meyham I can look on the Internet and watch the reality of the world. Yeech.
I also like that stuff. I just like the variety tv and movies can provide. You can literaly watch anything you want to fit whatever mood you are in.
Jason
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