Your insight is an excellent one. TV--partly due to cable and other forms of entertainment delivery, like Netflix--is enjoying a rise in quality. And I believe this is partly due to the outspokenness of us (fan)atics on line. Of course, most of the audience is still pretty unobservant, which might be traced to many of them working more hours than sleeping.
I think The X-Files was among the first wave of detail-oriented, rewatch-worthy series. But we are still early in the show, the staff is pressured and underpaid, and SF fans (like me) are habituated to not giving the science much credence.
Tech is moving faster than people can internalize.
All this reminds me of something OT. I was watching Fred Astaire in (I think) Swingtime with friends, and we laughed when Fred took a ride through the snow (in a sleigh?) and stood up with snow, or its movie equivalent, all over his rear end. Did not compute. And someone said, "Well, studios didn't know that people would be really watching this thing a century later." Fred, like the Files, turned out to belong to the ages.
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Date: 2014-06-22 01:53 pm (UTC)I think The X-Files was among the first wave of detail-oriented, rewatch-worthy series. But we are still early in the show, the staff is pressured and underpaid, and SF fans (like me) are habituated to not giving the science much credence.
Tech is moving faster than people can internalize.
All this reminds me of something OT. I was watching Fred Astaire in (I think) Swingtime with friends, and we laughed when Fred took a ride through the snow (in a sleigh?) and stood up with snow, or its movie equivalent, all over his rear end. Did not compute. And someone said, "Well, studios didn't know that people would be really watching this thing a century later." Fred, like the Files, turned out to belong to the ages.