Loving television

[altariel]

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.

Comments

[ex-lark-asc.livejournal.com]

That's an interesting question. I don't think communicator's idea holds quite true for me though; the more I love some art form or other the more I get picky and the higher my standards are. I'll sit through more of the dross out of affectionate amusement and vague curiosity, but I actually genuinely *like* far less of it.

[communicator.livejournal.com]

BTW did you see the spooks-style terrorism and conspiracy drama on BBC1 last night, with that Lucius Malfoy as the british ambassador to Washington - just your sort of thing I would have thought (because of the subject not the actor). damn I've forgotten its name.

[communicator.livejournal.com]

'The state within' - I think I might blog about it

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I was out at choir till late, but recorded it - probably watch it tonight or over the weekend. Definitely my kind of thing, particularly with Sharon Gless in it! Would be very interested in reading what you have to say about it. (I should finally get around to see Prime Suspect next week and then can read your posts about it.)

[katlinel.livejournal.com]

But now they're leaving us, and this unique time is passing away with them.

That reminds me of the passing of the lios-alfar in The Moon of Gomrath. Yes, I know, but I read The Moon of Gomrath many years before I read Lord of the Rings.