I guess the difference between tomorrow and 2 is that tomorrow can be a show that's popular? And unlike 4, it does have to be on the air now, but unlike 3, it doesn't have to be brand new? Anyway, yes, stupid meme.
I have such fond memories of TNG, I avoid reruns, because I know it was not always as good as I remember.
TNG will recur in this meme sooner than you'd think. It had its faults, but it was the beginning of a TV sci-fi renaissance...well, at the very least, resurgence. It's so easy to see it retrospectively in terms of tics and clichés, but at the time, it was the best the genre'd been.
And the two questions are close enough that I feel obliged to wholeheartedly and arbitrarily change things for the next question. I just...forgot what I was going to change it to...suggestions?
True that re: TNG. I used to catch it on syndication after school, and the first season or two notwithstanding, there was some pretty stellar storytelling going on there.
It might seem a bit redundant, given the depth of your responses, but for tomorrow I like the idea of "a show that's had a significant effect on who you are today".
For instance, my answer would be Daria. It's not necessarily a great show (and in many ways, it's so very nineties/early aughts - a community where a girl honestly thinks she can raise tens of thousands of dollars for plastic surgery by asking her friends?), but I saw it at a time in my life when things were rapidly changing with no promise they'd stop anytime soon, and adopting that particular brand of snark for my own gave me both a coping mechanism and something to aspire to (much to the horror of my mother). I'm pretty sure I've learned to be more discriminating in its use since then, but I directly attribute a large part of my wit-muscle to that show; I might never have been inspired to develop
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That's actually one of the ideas I was moving toward. [Either that or something along the lines of "What series would you greenlight?" because there've been a few pilots that never got the go-ahead which would've been very, very cool....] Though I might have trouble answering that fully. There've been at least three mentioned earlier on that can share the blame for a lot of my personal tics....
And me, I loved Daria, though I lost touch with it. I do so aspire to the monotone and the acidic wit, though I've found the latter -- along with my occasional inability to rein it in before I've gone too far -- best left slumbering.
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I have such fond memories of TNG, I avoid reruns, because I know it was not always as good as I remember.
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And the two questions are close enough that I feel obliged to wholeheartedly and arbitrarily change things for the next question. I just...forgot what I was going to change it to...suggestions?
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It might seem a bit redundant, given the depth of your responses, but for tomorrow I like the idea of "a show that's had a significant effect on who you are today".
For instance, my answer would be Daria. It's not necessarily a great show (and in many ways, it's so very nineties/early aughts - a community where a girl honestly thinks she can raise tens of thousands of dollars for plastic surgery by asking her friends?), but I saw it at a time in my life when things were rapidly changing with no promise they'd stop anytime soon, and adopting that particular brand of snark for my own gave me both a coping mechanism and something to aspire to (much to the horror of my mother). I'm pretty sure I've learned to be more discriminating in its use since then, but I directly attribute a large part of my wit-muscle to that show; I might never have been inspired to develop ( ... )
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And me, I loved Daria, though I lost touch with it. I do so aspire to the monotone and the acidic wit, though I've found the latter -- along with my occasional inability to rein it in before I've gone too far -- best left slumbering.
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