I feel as though nostalgia often ruins things that i remember to be amazing (especially TV shows with many seasons) because as i watch the first season for the first time, i enjoy it thoroughly. As i progress more through the show and especially as i get to the end i look back and remember things that happened, but i think of them as i think of say season 10, where the ships do not look like styrofoam strung up on fishing wire.
If you don't know what i mean, think of your best friend, and think of something you did with them say three months ago. Subconciously you think of what they look like now, and transplant it back to something you did with them three months ago. But if you look at a photo from that day, you'll notice their hair is different than you remembered and maybe they dont wear that shirt anymore.
While that's a bad example because no one cares that their friends used to look different, in a TV show 10 years of graphical changes can make a huge difference and while i understand that the show is still exactly what it was when i watched it for the first time, i've grown accustomed to the way things are and my expectations of what i remember it being ends up leaving me disappointed.
While for the most part i don't watch a TV show because it has awesome graphics (this is why i haven't seen 'pocahontus in space') When a TV show is science fiction a large part of it is based on that which is in our future and that which doesn't, couldn't or shouldn't exist. While this makes for a great narrative perspective when the show is dated this aspect often seems far more realistic or in an ironic twist seems far LESS realistic because of what we now know.
Perhaps it's just me, I realise I'm fairly perculiar, i'd really like some other opinions.
How do you feel about things in retrospect and if you watch a show for a second time does it ever measure up or like me, do you feel nostalgia has deceived you.
If you don't know what i mean, think of your best friend, and think of something you did with them say three months ago. Subconciously you think of what they look like now, and transplant it back to something you did with them three months ago. But if you look at a photo from that day, you'll notice their hair is different than you remembered and maybe they dont wear that shirt anymore.
While that's a bad example because no one cares that their friends used to look different, in a TV show 10 years of graphical changes can make a huge difference and while i understand that the show is still exactly what it was when i watched it for the first time, i've grown accustomed to the way things are and my expectations of what i remember it being ends up leaving me disappointed.
While for the most part i don't watch a TV show because it has awesome graphics (this is why i haven't seen 'pocahontus in space') When a TV show is science fiction a large part of it is based on that which is in our future and that which doesn't, couldn't or shouldn't exist. While this makes for a great narrative perspective when the show is dated this aspect often seems far more realistic or in an ironic twist seems far LESS realistic because of what we now know.
Perhaps it's just me, I realise I'm fairly perculiar, i'd really like some other opinions.
How do you feel about things in retrospect and if you watch a show for a second time does it ever measure up or like me, do you feel nostalgia has deceived you.
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