I watched the Waltons, Because my mom watches it sometimes...
It's very different compared to newer TV shows, first of all the overall story; I don't think that if today someone made a show with a similar story that it would last very long or even get singed in the first place. It is just to boring for TV now a days. Second of all there is no reference to sex (from what I saw anyway) There are no girls in scantly clad clothing or anything like that. In TV shows now a days it's hard to find a show that dose not have the things I just mentioned.
Also the show seems to be a little bit more goofy, or less serious.
It seems today that movies especially they are all trying to be "gritty" and mature, etc...
The new TV I watched this week are the same three shows I watched last week, those would be. Battlestar Galactica, LOST and Fringe. Battlestar dose a great job with this "gritty" atmosphear. Even the way the camera moves adds to it. And the level of detail on the computer modles and the set versions of the same modles are amazing. They really add to the grittyness and the realistic aspect of it.
I really think that for a true TV show (not some stupid "reality show") to work, they cost a lot more money then a TV show would have cost 20 -25 years ago, or even longer ago.
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I agree with you on sayin that a good TV show now would cost WAYYYY more than 25 years ago. It's like these pointless reality shows get way more viewers than a quality show would, and costs way less to produce. Therefor, they have taken over TV in the past few years.
ReplyDeleteAlso, your comment about the Walton's not having enough sex and nudity to be popular was interesting. That is seriously the epitomy of tv shows this day. America has kind of gone raunchy!
Yea I think you and my Dad are the only people I know that still watch the Waltons lol. I admit that a show like that or Leave it to Beaver is just to wholesome for today's "raw" society. In away it is liberating. Could you imagine going through life living that way? I bet those people had a lot of raw emotion just begging to come out lol. Thank God we are granted such freedom of expression today.
ReplyDeleteI haven't seen the Waltons TV show, but I've seen the Waltons movie, the Homecoming. It's a Christmas staple at my house. I was reluctant to watch it at first, because I was afraid it would be sappy, and in a way it is, but it always makes me cry. I hope the show is just as good. Does it also have transparently 1970s style haircuts in a show set in the Great Depression?
ReplyDeletei don't really watch the Walton's I just did for this assignment lol
ReplyDeleteI've never really watched the Walton's before, however you don't make it sound like I'm missing a whole lot:) I think you definitely touched on something that brings a lot of truth about TV today and what they do to draw in viewers. Sex appeal is definitely used as a selling tool nowadays in many TV shows, but I also think to an extent it is because of the freedom's we express today regarding sexual preferences opposed to the way it was viewed 30 or more years ago. We are far more open about our sexual behaviors as a society today than we were back then.
ReplyDelete.....Waltons? No way that's still on T.V :-)
ReplyDeleteTV land I think?
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