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heidiOvernight, someone emailed me asking for copies of the VHS tapes I have of the Tomorrow People series - I have every episode from Season Four onward, thanks to someone on the Tomorrow People majordomo-based mailing list circa 1993 or 1994, when I was first getting online and the series had only gone off the air in the US 10 years prior.
Ten years ago.
Back then I offered to make copies of the VHS tapes for anyone who wanted - I had two vcrs so it was easy to do, and the series wasn't available anywhere, and there was only one place - teleporter take-out - where one could find episode summaries. Of course, that was 10 years ago, and starting about 2ish years ago, Thames started to release the old eps on Region 0 DVDs in the UK, which meant we, stateside, could buy them and play them on our DVD players here, whee.
Season 8 still hasn't been released but when it is, Amazon is set to send it to me. I realise how bonkers it is to collect dvds of a vaguely crap british TV series that I watched on Nickelodeon back before they had commercials and even before Alanis Morissette was on You Can't Do That On Television, and I wonder how many kids today who watch Nick in the afternoons have parents who are able to explain the true origins of green slime to them.
"I don't know."
Splooosh.
Kids these days don't know how well they have it (man, do I sound old!) If they develop an interest in something, they can google it and find other people with the same interest and use IM or email or boards to share in it. When I wanted to find British music in 1984 and 1985 and 1986, I relied on Record Runner ads in Star Hits magazine, or my occasional trips to London. I never found any other fans of TP until I got online in 1992 and I was lucky to be in college when Twin Peaks came out and I had enough fellow fans around me that we did a special restrospective-of-the-show program on our school's closed circuit tv station the week after we learned who killed Laura Palmer. And since then, there's been the internet, and for a while I wondered if the ease of accessing things inherently and absolutely made the love of it less intense - but seeing how so many of you are responding to Serenity and Firefly, I think not. The sharing and the community that spring up around something really allow you to have a pure, true and obsessive fascination with it, even if it's sometghing you can pull up and access at any given moment.
Ten years ago.
Back then I offered to make copies of the VHS tapes for anyone who wanted - I had two vcrs so it was easy to do, and the series wasn't available anywhere, and there was only one place - teleporter take-out - where one could find episode summaries. Of course, that was 10 years ago, and starting about 2ish years ago, Thames started to release the old eps on Region 0 DVDs in the UK, which meant we, stateside, could buy them and play them on our DVD players here, whee.
Season 8 still hasn't been released but when it is, Amazon is set to send it to me. I realise how bonkers it is to collect dvds of a vaguely crap british TV series that I watched on Nickelodeon back before they had commercials and even before Alanis Morissette was on You Can't Do That On Television, and I wonder how many kids today who watch Nick in the afternoons have parents who are able to explain the true origins of green slime to them.
"I don't know."
Splooosh.
Kids these days don't know how well they have it (man, do I sound old!) If they develop an interest in something, they can google it and find other people with the same interest and use IM or email or boards to share in it. When I wanted to find British music in 1984 and 1985 and 1986, I relied on Record Runner ads in Star Hits magazine, or my occasional trips to London. I never found any other fans of TP until I got online in 1992 and I was lucky to be in college when Twin Peaks came out and I had enough fellow fans around me that we did a special restrospective-of-the-show program on our school's closed circuit tv station the week after we learned who killed Laura Palmer. And since then, there's been the internet, and for a while I wondered if the ease of accessing things inherently and absolutely made the love of it less intense - but seeing how so many of you are responding to Serenity and Firefly, I think not. The sharing and the community that spring up around something really allow you to have a pure, true and obsessive fascination with it, even if it's sometghing you can pull up and access at any given moment.
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Date: 2005-07-01 12:47 pm (UTC)I had an interesting little jaunt into fannishness with Twin Peaks, bolstered by my best friend's obsession with the show and the simple fact that we both lived within spitting distance of where it was filmed. The Twin Peaks Fest up in Snoqualmie / North Bend was a kick and a half. Somewhere in MTV's archives there may still be footage of the Log Lady interviewing us after Jenny's relay-race team won.... ;)
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Date: 2005-07-01 12:58 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2005-07-01 01:17 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-07-01 01:30 pm (UTC)And The Third Eye! Aaaaaah!!!!
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Date: 2005-07-02 06:59 pm (UTC)Gah, early 80s Nickelodeon. Have you ever visited this page?
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Date: 2005-07-01 02:40 pm (UTC)Sploosh!
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Date: 2005-07-01 03:30 pm (UTC)*tempts*
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Date: 2005-07-02 07:00 pm (UTC)(no subject)
I do like the new layout, too :-)
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Date: 2005-07-01 04:20 pm (UTC)Because it was oen of hubby's favourite series, and because my favourite child actor - Simon Gipps-Kent - was in it, and I only found out when I found teh Internet that he'd died young.
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Date: 2005-07-02 07:02 pm (UTC): looks for oliver wood icon, cannot find one, alas!
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Date: 2005-07-01 04:56 pm (UTC)It's on DVD? SQUEEEEEEE!
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Date: 2005-07-02 07:02 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-07-01 05:09 pm (UTC)The ability to connect and talk about our love for a particular show or episode of something is amazing, and when I used to think of how alone I was as a kid in my fandom of one, I can't believe there aren't more people connected through the more obscure shows out there.
It also makes me worried, however, about my own children and the online connections they'll be making soon. No, not necessarily because of predators (although that is always a concern) but how the experience in general may shape them with me as a role model. They already see me in front of my computer excessively, how will I adjust my own behaviors to the standards I set for them, while at the same time letting them indulge in their need to deconstruct the cool meta 'Cable' episode of Kim Possible? :D
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Date: 2005-07-01 05:37 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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