From: ask-me-in-public-if-you-want-my-address@address.invalid   
      
   Hello Eric.  I am happy to know you.   
      
   On 2023-09-06 at 14:37 +0000, Eric Gillespie wrote:   
      
   > Please keep these coming!  My wife and I have been wanting to   
   > rewatch for a long time, but just can't find the time.   
      
   Thanks for reading my little reviews.  Of course, I will continue.   
      
   > Unfortunately, the empty nest is looming in our future, and that   
   > means we'll have time...   
      
   I hope it will not be too sad.   
      
   > 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.   
      
   Personally it is the same for me.  My wife may have a different point of   
   view but even that is not particularly the point; the point is that she   
   revealed, clearly, that the show *is* now old even if we dislike the   
   idea: we have to acknowledge the differences in aesthetics and in the   
   use of the medium, no matter how we love it.   
      
   In fact our reaction to this realisation might be to be more forgiving,   
   to justify some flaws as a consequence of its simpler times.   
      
   >> 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.   
      
   Scully's clothes did not look very feminine, she said.   
      
   (On the other hand Scully's evening dress at dinner was comically   
   excessive and out of character; but I am not criticising that choice,   
   because Scully was *supposed* to look awkward there.)   
      
   >> 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 :)   
      
   I will try to remember this.   
      
   --   
   Beard   
      
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