When Your Old, Everything Is Old
Entertainment
It just seems like I can't watch a movie or TV show where I haven't seen the theme or twist or whatever before. Is there only so many stories people can think up? This isn't to say things aren't enjoyable, but they just don't hold the same ooh and aah-ishness as before. Maybe I'm flattering myself, but I don't really like the mindless entertainment movies, but maybe I should. I can see myself analyzing what's going on in the plot, and it seems like I'm picking up various formulas here and there. Want a dramatic TV show? Just show the characters and develop thier personalities, and then kill them. Want mystery? Just show snippets of something that seems unnaturally powerful, and never really reveal anything, until the very end. Want scary? Turn off the music, then BOO! How do you turn off the analysis machine? Maybe this is really why the more you look at something and analyze it, the more you tend to wander to the 'alternative' or 'experimental' section, you just need something new for the sake of being new.
When I think about sports, it's the same thing? Why on earth would this be exciting? You've seen home runs, touchdowns, etc before haven't you? Maybe because it is unscripted, and you don't actually know what's going to happen, I guess...maybe this is the appeal of the reality TV shows, until the producers start scripting things.
What about porn? Does people's minds wander to the alternative section? No, I don't think so because precisely because people don't think about it, or analyze it, or whatever. It's just good, the same way eating a fruit is good. A nice variety is there, but people don't feel the need eat alternative fruits, do they? Sure, if some new flavor taste good, I like it because it's good, not because I only like it because I'm tired of strawberries. I think that what people consider 'alternative' on the porno side really falls of the map, in a sexual sense, as well, with fatties and old folks, and feet and whatever.
Entertainment
It just seems like I can't watch a movie or TV show where I haven't seen the theme or twist or whatever before. Is there only so many stories people can think up? This isn't to say things aren't enjoyable, but they just don't hold the same ooh and aah-ishness as before. Maybe I'm flattering myself, but I don't really like the mindless entertainment movies, but maybe I should. I can see myself analyzing what's going on in the plot, and it seems like I'm picking up various formulas here and there. Want a dramatic TV show? Just show the characters and develop thier personalities, and then kill them. Want mystery? Just show snippets of something that seems unnaturally powerful, and never really reveal anything, until the very end. Want scary? Turn off the music, then BOO! How do you turn off the analysis machine? Maybe this is really why the more you look at something and analyze it, the more you tend to wander to the 'alternative' or 'experimental' section, you just need something new for the sake of being new.
When I think about sports, it's the same thing? Why on earth would this be exciting? You've seen home runs, touchdowns, etc before haven't you? Maybe because it is unscripted, and you don't actually know what's going to happen, I guess...maybe this is the appeal of the reality TV shows, until the producers start scripting things.
What about porn? Does people's minds wander to the alternative section? No, I don't think so because precisely because people don't think about it, or analyze it, or whatever. It's just good, the same way eating a fruit is good. A nice variety is there, but people don't feel the need eat alternative fruits, do they? Sure, if some new flavor taste good, I like it because it's good, not because I only like it because I'm tired of strawberries. I think that what people consider 'alternative' on the porno side really falls of the map, in a sexual sense, as well, with fatties and old folks, and feet and whatever.
posted by Toddypoo at 1:43 PM
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Shakespeare's 'There is nothing ne under the sun'.
"If there be nothing new, but that which is
Hath been before, how are our brains beguiled,
Which, labouring for invention, bear amiss
The second burden of a former child!
O, that record could with a backward look,
Even of five hundred courses of the sun,
Show me your image in some antique book,
Since mind at first in character was done!
That I might see what the old world could say
To this composed wonder of your frame;
Whether we are mended, or whether better they,
Or whether revolution be the same.
O, sure I am, the wits of former days
To subjects worse have given admiring praise."
Sonnet 59 , Shakespeare
hmmm, I think we have had this discussion once. :)
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I had to get the cliff notes about what this sonnet means, which is apparently: It's not new, but I love it anyways (Shakespeare talking about his lover's face). I wish that everything was like that:
Suhasinator: I had to include it to be consistent in my outrageous logic :)
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