Loving television

communicator has a great post about what kind of media you love, and whether you will forgive them more as a result. Thinking about why I love telly (which is because it is form of shared culture), made me think about why the death of Nigel Kneale had saddened me so much. (Kneale wrote some of the seminal pieces of British television science fiction: Quatermass, the screenplay to Nineteen Eighty-Four.) Now he's gone, it's as if the nature of television has changed in some way. While the people who'd formed it in the 1950s were still alive, it was as if you could hold the whole of the medium in your hands. But now they're leaving us, and this unique time is passing away with them.