Yakoob on 8/11/2016 at 09:37
I already answered it in the thread title ;p nostalgia. There really isn't any other rational reason behind it.
hopper on 10/11/2016 at 10:51
Quote Posted by faetal
I never watched X-Files during the 90s (well maybe the odd episode), and recently tried to watch them all with my wife and we quit on series 3 as it was just way too cheesy.
They both have great screen presence, but it got tiring having to wade through the annoying supernatural / occult / religious episodes to get to the more engaging alien / biology-horror ones.
Also, the way Scully's scepticism gets reset after each episode gets increasingly bizarre.
I was a devoted viewer in the 90s, and the coolest episodes were always the standalone Monster-of-the-week ones, while the government-conspiracy-with-aliens saga bored the hell out of me. I set out watching the revival of the series earlier this year, but forgot about it after 3 or so episodes. The adaptation of the series to the current TV landscape was an ill fit, imo. The magic was gone.
That said, I believe if I watched the old episodes again today, they'd probably have lost some of their lustre, as well.
Edit: On topic, I'm not very prone to nostalgia, but I do occasionally play Thief fan missions, which for me counts as nostalgia, even if I've never played them before. Hell, even coming here is a form of nostalgia.
faetal on 10/11/2016 at 11:50
Agree on the monster episodes being the best. I also enjoyed the aliens & conspiracy ones, but it was the ghost / cult / supernatural ones which I found crossed my credulity threshold.
bjack on 11/11/2016 at 22:55
Quote Posted by Tony_Tarantula
If anyone's been watching South Park, nostalgia is a major theme in this season with the introduction of "member berries".
It depends on the writers over time, but SP has been always sort of nostalgic (albeit very recently topical at the same time), just like the Simpsons and Family Guy. SP has been around for over 20 years now. I stopped watching about 10 years ago, but still see a few new episodes from time to time. It has run its course and has been pushing the gag far too long. Still funny here and there, but sort of meh... Just my opinion. It is still popular and I do enjoy some of the new stuff.
As for “member berries” I’ve got to check into that. That gives me a reason to look at some more new episodes. I tried to watch the “election” one recently, but found it pretty boring and very predictable. I know Garrison had been running as an orange faced freak for a while. I did not see enough of these types of episodes to tell if they were as harsh to the Clinton archetype too. They usually screw everyone, but it did not feel that way in the episode I watched.
Yakoob on 11/11/2016 at 23:55
Occasionally SP does take a stance, maybe they are pushing anti-Trump message? Haven't seen the episode yet, is it out? Now I'm curious to watch it.
robthom on 2/12/2016 at 21:44
I'd rather watch Alien again then ridley scott clumsily rippng it off in his old age.
I enjoy watching classics again more then remakes or imitations.
Tony_Tarantula on 4/12/2016 at 04:46
Quote Posted by Yakoob
Occasionally SP does take a stance, maybe they are pushing anti-Trump message? Haven't seen the episode yet, is it out? Now I'm curious to watch it.
They are for the most part, but that's not the issue with this season.
The plotline falls kind of flat except for the first few episodes jokes about trolling.
Ev0luti0n_ on 4/1/2017 at 21:40
I sometimes go on YouTube and search for videos of thief, but thats about it. I do wonder about buying a laptop and installing the games again, but I never do. :-(
CoffeeMaker on 8/1/2017 at 22:53
Get in the car and drive 3 hours down to NYC and hang out for a day in all the old haunts -- stop into the Pakistani deli for coffee to go, have lunch in a hole-in-the-wall falafel place, wander up to St. John the Divine's to see if there are still peacocks on the grounds of the cathedral, take the train up to CCNY and marvel I can still walk up the hill at 137th Street. Meet up with some friends from days when they were at Columbia law, go have Chinese or Indian food for dinner, crash on the couch at one of their places and drive back upstate the next afternoon with an assortment of homebrew kimchi, tofu etc. from the upper upper west side markets. Oh yeah, and somewhere along the way remember to grab a dirty water hot dog in midtown if I take the train down there to see what's different.
I love living in the boondocks but man the food and the diverse energy of the city are necessary tonics for me now and then. I thought after I retired I'd not miss it much because "everyone says" the hustle-bustle (not to say chaos) of the city is too much to handle when you get old. Wrong!
On balance I think I liked best the long stretch where I was living in the sticks and keeping my place in the city, even though for the most part I could telecommute from upstate. Finally giving up the apartment fifteen years ago left room in my budget for other things but... too bad not enough for a helicopter LOL. I miss the hustle sometimes and all those ethnic foods all the time! my replications are hardly stellar yet.
Only solution must be to practice all my begged and borrowed recipes more often; eventually I'll get too old to want to brave the crazy traffic into the city even in off hours. So far I haven't run out of expletives so I'm not speechless yet at some of the maneuvers I see people managing while they ignore laws on cellphones and driving. But I'm not a fan of that part of my nostalgic journeys.
Kolya on 13/1/2017 at 19:07
Digitalised most of my CDs, now listening to Eric Burdon & The Animals. This following program is dedicated to the city and people of San Francisco who may not know it but they are beautiful. kehe I should still have some weed around.
