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I feel old.
Jul. 26th, 2009 09:26 pmI'm sitting here, sneezing my damn head off because, I fear, I have begun to develop allergies [no!] and reading some snarky BSC...snark. And I wonder, if perhaps, I'm forgetting much of my childhood or something else.
Much has been made in the BSC snarkverse over the fact that every damn kid in the 'Brook watches TV shows that they probably shouldn't, given the fact that it was at least the 1980's [and usually later] and how many kids could have possibly watched I Love Lucy, Leave it to Beaver, and... crap. I don't remember the other one constantly getting mentioned.
Now. Confession time. We didn't have cable for ages when I was a kid. I didn't watch a ton of TV then, either. But I don't really remember there being a lot of choice in daytime [which is what these kids would've been watching, as well as early evening] television waaaaaaaaaay back in the 80's. I watched a lot of Lassie. Suffered through Beaver when I was at someone else's house, and I was a big fan of Flipper. Mom hated Lucy, so that didn't work out, and Bewitched wasn't on til early evening. Your other option? Talk. Shows. Even *then* they didn't interest me, and even if they had, I wouldn't have been allowed to watch anyway.
Obviously weekends were different, and once cable got introduced to the mix, honey, I was all over the Disney channel. But I don't remember really running for anything on the weekends anyway, other than Saved By The Bell, some cartoons, and a few shows on at night... or whatever movie was on Disney/ABC/whatever.
So, I get that by the time we'd moved well into the 90's and beyond, the TV choices should have changed to reflect the fact that, hell, SBTB was in reruns then, people. You should've been watching that! But the earlier books? I ... kinda think those should get a free pass for the weird TV watched, especially when it's daytime TV shtuff.
Now I must ask those who are approximately my age or would have better recall than I do: Am I just not remembering things correctly? Was there more on and I just got the Lassie end of the stick?
Oh, and PBS was frequently airing Reading Rainbow at any given moment, and I did watch other things, like most of Nickelodeon's lineup back them. Oh... Pinwheel. Today's Special.
And now I shower.
Much has been made in the BSC snarkverse over the fact that every damn kid in the 'Brook watches TV shows that they probably shouldn't, given the fact that it was at least the 1980's [and usually later] and how many kids could have possibly watched I Love Lucy, Leave it to Beaver, and... crap. I don't remember the other one constantly getting mentioned.
Now. Confession time. We didn't have cable for ages when I was a kid. I didn't watch a ton of TV then, either. But I don't really remember there being a lot of choice in daytime [which is what these kids would've been watching, as well as early evening] television waaaaaaaaaay back in the 80's. I watched a lot of Lassie. Suffered through Beaver when I was at someone else's house, and I was a big fan of Flipper. Mom hated Lucy, so that didn't work out, and Bewitched wasn't on til early evening. Your other option? Talk. Shows. Even *then* they didn't interest me, and even if they had, I wouldn't have been allowed to watch anyway.
Obviously weekends were different, and once cable got introduced to the mix, honey, I was all over the Disney channel. But I don't remember really running for anything on the weekends anyway, other than Saved By The Bell, some cartoons, and a few shows on at night... or whatever movie was on Disney/ABC/whatever.
So, I get that by the time we'd moved well into the 90's and beyond, the TV choices should have changed to reflect the fact that, hell, SBTB was in reruns then, people. You should've been watching that! But the earlier books? I ... kinda think those should get a free pass for the weird TV watched, especially when it's daytime TV shtuff.
Now I must ask those who are approximately my age or would have better recall than I do: Am I just not remembering things correctly? Was there more on and I just got the Lassie end of the stick?
Oh, and PBS was frequently airing Reading Rainbow at any given moment, and I did watch other things, like most of Nickelodeon's lineup back them. Oh... Pinwheel. Today's Special.
And now I shower.