Anyone watch this TV series? I find myself really wanting to like it. And I do...somewhat.

For those that don't know, it's a show loosely based in the late 80's when Commodore, Atari, etc. were king.

There's lots of references to Commodore...you see the C64 all the time. I try to not get too upset when they show impossible graphics on the C64...I have to remind myself it's for TV and it's for a crowd of people who may remember the C64 by NAME only.


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There is an obvious parody of one of the main characters and Steve Jobs. The other co-star, I thought, would evolve into a parody of Steve Wozniak. But he doesn't. I originally saw his character as a hardware genius. Which got me hooked in the beginning. But I see him becoming more and more distant with technology while everyone around him are leaving him in the dust. Not sure how I feel about that yet.

Anyway, I hope this topic isn't too OT. But I figured a TV show about computers we're nostalgic for would be OK. Besides...seems a little dead around here lately.

Thoughts?

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I don't watch TV. But if I did, I wouldn't watch that. I'd be angry at all the revisionist history type stuff even though it's fiction.

Us non-TV-watchers have no patience whatsoever for the kind of things that are on TV.

Or advertising. The tons, and tons, and tons of in your face, yet passive aggressive preaching about what you must buy. It's amazing how you notice that when you take a break from TV for a while and see it again.

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I noticed that years ago when they started putting TV logos in the corner of each show. Then, they took it to extreme where half the show is covered by giant animations of OTHER shows. Really ticks me off.

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Cat; the other white meat.

It's not just the amount, it's the content, specifically the shock nonsense. Back before I gave up TV, it wasn't normal to see a commercial with someone smashing a guitar. Or to see cars crashing in horrific ways.

It's to the point that whenever I see a TV somewhere, it's displaying something that I just don't ever want to see. And I admit that it's because I haven't been desensitised. But why should I, or anyone else, be?

Yeah, I've noticed this too. It's even worse than that. I have a small child that lives with us. We DVR America's Funniest Home Videos. Which is a family safe show that I've watched since day one.

Well, the problem is that it's in syndicate so it might air at 11 PM at night. So the commercials that we record are Viagra, horror movies, raunchy sex movies, etc. And I don't always hit the FF button in time!

And let's not forget YouTube and the giant ads on almost every video.

Anyway...I really wanted to just talk about the show. LOL

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Cat; the other white meat.

I tried to watch the show when it came out.

I got in to 3 of them and bailed, as while, yea, ostensibly it's "inspired" by that time frame, it really has nothing to do with it. It's pure window dressing.

The original story line was that they got this great hacker (who happened to be a girl) to copy a BIOS (apparently alone, in a hotel room), and from there they were going to create this marvel of a machine with twice the speed and memory and prettier colors and flames out the back and whatever other nonsense they were spouting that was pretty much in complete disregard for material science at the time, much less anything else.