I imagine this will be as campy in fifty years as biblical epics from the fifties are today - Game of Thrones (2011) Discussion

In 50 years people will be doing full immersive and TV would be the equivalent of listening to old radio broadcasts.

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No, it will be more like listening to vinyl analog recordings, which, for the past 3 years, in terms of hard media, have our-sold digital media. For the attention-challenged, I said HARD MEDIA and not downloads. Hard media look and sound better.

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[–] Otter (24464) 6 years ago

In fifty years people may wince at the "primitive" 2D format and special effects, but they'll still get sucked into the interpersonal drama.

Good interpersonal drama never fades!

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[–] AngularTurnip (3333) 6 years ago

Then how come "Hill Street Blues," "St. Elsewhere," "ER" and many, many others have faded? They were considered good interpersonal drama at one time. Not so much anymore.

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[–] bohemianroxie (2471) 6 years ago

That's only because younger people these days tend not to appreciate anything older than they are. But I'd put all those shows you named up against most current network shows any day. And I'd definitely hold up ER over Grays Anatomy..at least the first 8-10 seasons..easily.
But cable has spoiled all of us with well written and acted shows that quite often fair better than theatrical films..Any network show is no contest against cable.

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[–] mitzibishi (1615) 6 years ago

Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Historical etc seems to fair better over time and stay in the public conscience more and keep word of mouth better. Those are based in the real world at the time. Long running soap opera dramas.

Shows like Twin Peaks, Twilight Zone, Dr. Who, X-files, Star Trek etc stay in peoples memories, some of the acting is poor, even the direction and look of the shows is dated but good writing and memorable characters keep it going.

Game of Thrones looks pretty good in its cinematography compared to any of the greatest shows on TV. Its one of the best looking shows of all time, decent acting, very strong characters and weaving storylines.

It should hold up quite well.

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[–] AngularTurnip (3333) 6 years ago

You're talking incredible interpersonal drama if people still consume it fifty years hence -- and, maybe it is. Time will tell.

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[–] R_Kane (15828) 6 years ago

Otter, you’re spot-on. Shallow, uneducated, people will wince. Cultured, advanced people will embrace these brilliant artists and artifacts as part of human heritage; and they/we will celebrate them.

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[–] Xcalat3 (3701) 6 years ago

I doubt people will be watching TV shows in 50 years. either technology will evolve so far as to let people choose their own entertainment via implant or the human race will be on the verge of collapse due to over-population and ecological destruction.

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[–] Otter (24464) 6 years ago

That's a good point. People are still watching movies from fifty or more years ago, but then movies are a wonderful format where the whole story is fit into a disposable amount of time. Long, long, TV series with years of episodes require a much more serious commitment of time, hundreds of hours to re-watch an entire TV series, and access to the whole series.

And yeah, enough civilization for an electrical grid.

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[–] R_Kane (15828) 6 years ago

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[–] R_Kane (15828) 6 years ago

Studies show that the popularity of binge-watching TV series continues to increase, as do sales for boxed sets of the seasons of TV series. We have the technology to be able to repurpose 2D material as 3D. We may very well be able to reformat contemporary media as VR or holographic or whatever else material in half a century. In the context of "great" network series' durability versus GoT: (1) GoT is fantasy, a genre that engenders rabid audiences, the net series you named, Angular, are dramas, for which there is much less popular demand (2) Bigger budgets and better acting on premium cable. (3) Premium cable has the insurmountable advantage of having no commercial interruptions. There is never a break in the narrative flow. NBC had a fantasy series, Emerald City, that I admired. I bought the boxed set; but, even absent actual commercials, the action thuds to a stop every few minutes when something dramatic happens, the camera zooms in for a close-up of someone's face, and the music gets REALLY LOUD. Imagine how much less compelling GoT would be if you experienced THAT just as the headsman is swinging for Ned Stark's neck. There is no contest between modern broadcast series and premium cable series.

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[–] Otter (24464) 6 years ago

You know, I don't think I've ever binge-watched an entire series in my life!

One other point - because GoT isn't set on Earth or in a specific time period, it won't age as obviously as anything set in the current day or which pays attention to current fashions. The biblical epics of the 1950s look very fifties, I don't think the costume, hair, or makeup of GoT looks pareticularly 2010s. Points to them or that.

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[–] AngularTurnip (3333) 6 years ago

We don't see how "2010s" this series looks but people fifty years hence certainly will. The CGI will no doubt link it to a specific time and place; I can imagine future generations deriving more amusement from the ridiculously-rendered dragons than gags from "Friends." And while I concur network commercial breaks render TV drama much less compelling lousy, over-used CGI undermines drama even more.

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[–] rootvegetables (1328) 6 years ago

Ben Hur remains my favorite epic.
I’m in my late 30s.

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[–] AngularTurnip (3333) 6 years ago

It's full of timeless themes and a bombastic Charlton Heston performance that for once fits the material like a glove. Some of the effects work doesn't hold up but there's still plenty to mull over to distract you from this deficiency.

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[–] GameOfSlaves (613) 6 years ago

Video Games are the future. Movies and TV will be gone. No one will have disposable income except the rich. In fifty years, thanks to supply and demand democracy, people will just have enough money for rent, food and sometimes electricity for heating or light. Purchase power has steadily declined almost the entire century and all of the new one. Poor getting more poor; essentially slavery by working slaves. The illusion of freedom. Free to choose your brand of bread but cross the rich and your dead.

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[–] R_Kane (15828) 6 years ago

I can resist a chuckle, just as I could resist a chuckle because I loved my gradmother, the Mona Lisa, and Beethoven’s “Chorale” 9th symphony. I don’t chuckle over Forbidden Planet, the first Day The Earth Stood Still, Blade Runner or 2001. I don’t chuckle over The Last Starfighter or I Walked With A Zombie or Night Of The Demon. In terms of TV, I DO chuckle over Cheers and Wings and The Dick Van Dyke Show and The Honeymooners because they are still funny. I don’t chuckle over The Prisoner because it is a wonderful drama, not a comedy. I feel sorry for those who need to feel superior because, through no doing of their own, the technology with which they find themselves surrounded in the future is more developed than the technology of the past. I dare you: show me a film or premium pay-TV writer today, or half a century hence, who equals Homer or Shakespeare. Show me a story today, or in the future, that equals, let alone surpasses, Gilgamesh, the oldest recorded story in history, and kept alive for a reason: because it’s a great story.

People still watch Star Trek, and do not smirk. People still watch The Prisoner, and do not smirk. GoT may screw the pooch in its final season, though I obviously hope not; but I will always find the idea that “old = pathetic” to be nonsense. In art, the sternest test of all is the test of time.

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