Such a great time to be alive. You had to watch it in real time. You could VHS record it, but then you miss out, because the next day that’s what everyone at school or work will be talking about. Streaming killed that social aspect of tv shows. Get off my lawn.
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Streaming killed that social aspect of tv shows.
Actually no, they didn't, at least not completely for every show. While many times a new show/season gets released all episodes at once, also many shows (like SNW) get released an episode a week (or like Andor, a storytelling arc per week). But they do that apparently to get viewers buy another month of subscription and it's a rubbish practice (you do actually hear a lot of voices calling for at-once releases).
Sick Bay Watch starring Dr Pulaski?
Oh my! It’s times like these that I’m glad I cannot visualize things in my head.
That’s on PBS.
Ah, real news. I miss that stuff from the 90's.
Very independent!
Rich kids and their cable TV ..... I only ever saw maybe 10 full episodes of TNG in the 90s and about 20 partial episodes ... never in sequence and most of the time only be accident on over the air public TV.
My family got satellite cable TV eventually but I had moved out by then. So I never saw all of TNG until I downloaded the entire series in the early 2000s. Once I learned about torrenting, it was the first thing I wanted to get, just to finally see the whole series.
Aww poor Geordi 😢
He turned out just fine!
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