Some Thoughts on TV

"Hello visitors, it's wonderful to see you again. I do hope you're enjoying you're stay here."

Hello everyone.

Lately I've discovered the simple joys of the internet again, I've been keeping my site up to date and it's a lot of fun. It's still a bit bare but it'll build up over time. I've also signed up to a forum. I don't think I've used a forum in about 15 years now and I'm glad to see that some of them survive and even new ones are popping up. I've considered running one of my own as of late but I don't know if I have the time to maintain it. Oh well.

I've also been watching a lot of the Toonami Aftermath stream. It's very comfortable to have on in the background and it's been very refreshing to be working to the schedule of a TV channel again. I've been regaining my ability to have multiple shows on the go at once instead of feeling the need to finish one before starting another. It's also just nice to have time to think about the things that happened in each episode and actually digest it rather than shovel more and more of it into my face.

I've been thinking a lot about how everything that comes out feels so disposable these days. Shows just don't make the impact or buzz that they used to it seems, sure there's a few brief obsessions with some new show but it never really sticks around. People have usually forgotten things in a month or two. I think it's due to binging and streaming services releasing every episode at once. You can watch a show in a weekend, talk about it in the office on Monday and then kind of just forget it and move on.

Far different to the past where you'd usually get a single episode of something one week and you'd have to wait for another one. With a show like Deep Space Nine where the story is always continuing and there's plenty of questions you want answers to, it can make it really compelling to watch week to week instead. Lots of talk on specific, individual episodes instead of the half-remembered parts of a show you already finished. When you cram say, 8 hours of TV into your head in one weekend, you're bound to forget a lot of it. I remember a lot more Deep Space Nine than most shows that have come out in the last 20 years because I loved Star Trek growing up and I would think about each episode all week right up until the next one. I think it's a shame TV feels so disposable now.

I've been keeping up with Dragon Ball Z from the beginning again on Toonami as well as watching whatever episode of Sailor Moon is on at the time. I have a fondness for the campy DIC dub, everyone is so bitchy, it's hilarious. That's another thing I've been able to do again lately, jump into the middle of a show, watch it and just try to intuit what's going on and why. It's been very fun to just jump into Pokemon in the middle of Master Quest and wonder what's going on and where they're going now.

"Oh dear, I'm rambling again. Thank you for listening to me. And remember to always believe in yourself! Sailor Moon says!

...What?"