From: epg@hassadar.pretzelnet.org   
      
   Hi Beard,   
      
   Please keep these coming!  My wife and I have been wanting to   
   rewatch for a long time, but just can't find the time.   
   Unfortunately, the empty nest is looming in our future, and that   
   means we'll have time...   
      
   > Yesterday night my lovely wife and I watched s01e05 The Jersey Devil.   
      
   This is the first episode that didn't grab me.  Your review of   
   this one comes across more positively than your review of   
   "Conduit" but I have the opposite opinion of them :)   
      
   > At the end I wanted to watch another episode, but instead my wife   
   > proposed something “modern” instead.  That made me feel old before I   
   > acknowledged that the series is in fact thirty years old.   
      
   I must say I don't understand this way of looking at it.  1993 is   
   really not to be considered "modern" anymore?  Some of my   
   favorites were already 50 years old in 1993.   
      
   > Scully is   
   > dressed too conservatively, says my wife.  True.  The aesthetics have   
   > changed a lot already.  And the narration, I would say.   
      
   How does an FBI agent dress today?  In 1963?  I would say   
   dressing conservatively is dressing for the job.   
      
   > And so after The Jersey Devil we watched one Black Mirror episode: the   
   > first of the second season.  Hauntingly painful and beautiful, a true   
   > work of art.  The Jersey Devil, unfortunately, was not.  I find this too   
   > difficult to openly admit.   
      
   Watch it again in 30 years :)   
      
   Thanks!   
      
   --   
   Eric Gillespie <*> epg@pretzelnet.org   
      
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