British Thoughts
I'm used to watching British television and being aware that I'm not their target audience. That, in many cases, they haven't even given a thought to the idea that I, an American, might be watching. And that I might even be watching hours after it was broadcast. So I'm used to say, being envious that I can't vote in Britain's Got Talent, or that I can't enter a contest on Biggest Loser UK to win a trip to Universal in Florida.
Even watching Britain's Secret Treasures, a countdown show to the greatest historical finds made by amateurs (mostly with metal detectors), there was a line in every episode about how these things were being found every day by 'you, the British public'. Well, no, not me.
Except in the last episode of that same show, was a line: "It's funny to think that the lips of our ancestors touched this sacred cup."
And I just had this moment when I realized, wait, yes, just as likely my ancestors as his.
And for that moment, I was part of their audience.
Even watching Britain's Secret Treasures, a countdown show to the greatest historical finds made by amateurs (mostly with metal detectors), there was a line in every episode about how these things were being found every day by 'you, the British public'. Well, no, not me.
Except in the last episode of that same show, was a line: "It's funny to think that the lips of our ancestors touched this sacred cup."
And I just had this moment when I realized, wait, yes, just as likely my ancestors as his.
And for that moment, I was part of their audience.