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Jul. 1st, 2005 08:26 amOvernight, 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.
