I agree with this.
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Personally, I feel like I've been robbed.
I remember when Doctor Who was something exactly THREE kids (and I was one of them) in school knew about. Now it crops up in mainline television when the Leverage characters use Tom Baker and Sarah Jones as aliases.
I remember when being a Trekkie made me a supreme outcast. Now people I meet decide if they want to be my friend or not based on who my favorite captain is.
I remember when no one had heard of Roger Corman or Vincent Price. When people looked at my friend Pam and I like we were aliens from another planet for spewing dialog from House of Usher in the halls at school. Now John Cusak is doing The Raven and when I saw the first trailer for it, the whole theater whoop-whooped.
I remember when horror films about hauntings and demons were rare. Now mainstream actors don't feel they are real actors until they've done one or the other.
I remember when my love of super heros was right up there with being a Trekkie. Now my attorney boss has asked if she can go see The Avengers with me. Whaaa??!!
I remember when my love obscure Brit programs like Red Dwarf, Black Adder, Mr. Bean and Faulty Towers was only appreciated by visiting Brits. Now an actor from a Doctor Who spin-off lands a roll on a popular tv show? Ok, it helps that he's exceedingly charming. But they used to be obscure British actors...
All these things are trendy?
sigh...
We still have "The Guild".....for now.0 -
Personally, I feel like I've been robbed.
I remember when Doctor Who was something exactly THREE kids (and I was one of them) in school knew about. Now it crops up in mainline television when the Leverage characters use Tom Baker and Sarah Jones as aliases.
I remember when being a Trekkie made me a supreme outcast. Now people I meet decide if they want to be my friend or not based on who my favorite captain is.
I remember when no one had heard of Roger Corman or Vincent Price. When people looked at my friend Pam and I like we were aliens from another planet for spewing dialog from House of Usher in the halls at school. Now John Cusak is doing The Raven and when I saw the first trailer for it, the whole theater whoop-whooped.
I remember when horror films about hauntings and demons were rare. Now mainstream actors don't feel they are real actors until they've done one or the other.
I remember when my love of super heros was right up there with being a Trekkie. Now my attorney boss has asked if she can go see The Avengers with me. Whaaa??!!
I remember when my love obscure Brit programs like Red Dwarf, Black Adder, Mr. Bean and Faulty Towers was only appreciated by visiting Brits. Now an actor from a Doctor Who spin-off lands a roll on a popular tv show? Ok, it helps that he's exceedingly charming. But they used to be obscure British actors...
All these things are trendy?
sigh...
We still have "The Guild".....for now.
But a LOT more stuff gets made now, with better production values (...okay and sometimes gets ruined in the pursuit of a mass market) and I really don't see how that can be bad. I mean, 20 years ago if you'd been told every year would have a huge summer blockbuster mega bucks production of a super hero movie, some of which would actually be exceedingly good, you would have been like 'whaaaaa?" Or that everyone in the world, nerd or not, would get ravingly excited about a fantasy book series about wizards and witches (regardless of how you feel about Harry Potter in general, that's a major shift in what people have traditionally enjoyed en masse). Or hell that a million billion gazillion people can say they have played an RPG of some stripe (MMO or even general video game status aside).
I dunno, I totally used to feel this way but then I took an a.... err, I mean -- but I got over it. Social status is only meaningful in contexts in which you make it meaningful. Outside of that, whatever. You are who you are and you like what you like. Stop letting other people ruin it for you.0 -
Wow. I was just being poetic. Not expecting a scolding from someone I do not even know.
My feelings have nothing to do with "social status." I don't give a fig about social status.
High budgets do not equate to good films. Has any single ONE of the high budget remakes we've been saddled with lately been any good?0 -
Wow. I was just being poetic. Not expecting a scolding from someone I do not even know.
My feelings have nothing to do with "social status." I don't give a fig about social status.
High budgets do not equate to good films. Has any single ONE of the high budget remakes we've been saddled with lately been any good?
Sorry, it wasn't meant to sound scolding, it was meant to be conversational. Internet fail.
And - did you not like the batman movies?0 -
There is nothing worse then geek on geek violence.
*closes eyes*
*makes slapping gestures*0 -
There is nothing worse then geek on geek violence.
*closes eyes*
*makes slapping gestures*
when it a girl geek vs a guy geek its usually over quickly and not in the guys favor. I deadlifted 155 lbs yesterday. Bring it! *roar*
*edit* except that WAS a girl I was talking to? (my brain saw the max adn not the marie) Hmm. I still think I've got like 50 lbs on her.0 -
There is nothing worse then geek on geek violence.
*closes eyes*
*makes slapping gestures*
:laugh:0
