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fandomhigh2009-06-05 11:10 am
chosehumanity) wrote in fandomhigh2009-06-05 11:10 am
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TeeVee for Beginners, Friday Period Two
They were not in a classroom today. In fact, they were in the gym. And there weren't any couches, just very cold, very plastic chairs. The A/C was running on high. There was a flatscreen at the front of the class, which Mitchell was standing in front of - many feet away from the chairs.
He had some wads of cotton plugged up his nose. With his complexion, he figured he could get away with saying he was simply a bit ill. It wasn't that whatever was happening affected him, but it meant that the air was full of pheromones - of desire, want, blood rushing heavily through veins and--
It disgusted him. He didn't want to hurt any of them. He would've stayed at home, if he hadn't been afraid it'd cost him his job. "Today, we'll be discussing recent television," he started, "It's faster-paced, cut more rapidly, making its departure from the theatre." He wasn't planning to be speaking long today. His classes always seemed to be affected by this sort of business. "Some say it's because our cultural attention span has gotten so short. Some say it's simply because we can absorb more information than we did previously. I'm not a scientist, I can't tell you which one it is, but I can tell you that modern standards of comedy seem to have fallen quite a bit."
"The television medium is much more scattered now. There's far more channels than in the past, when at best you'd get five or six. Now, you can watch a hundred different things or more, geared towards your tastes, wishes, and expectations. Cooking channels, comedy channels, news channels. Anything you might want to learn, anything you might want to follow, anything you might want to have fun with? It's there on the TV. Just a click of the remote away."
He went into a bit of a routine about sci-fi and fantasy channels and fiction, but it was a bit sketchy, along the lines of, 'sci-fi is about the future, fantasy has dragons, all of these types have their standards'. "Then there's the sitcom," he finished, at last, "Developed back in the 50s, perfected in the 80s. Situational comedy. A cast of characters operating from the same 'situation', like a drama with jokes. It's often about the dialogue."
He pointed at the TV with the remote. "Today, we'll be watching different channels. You'll discuss what defines each and every one of them. What are the most obvious visual markers? Who does the channel seem to be geared at? Would you watch it on your own?"
He had some wads of cotton plugged up his nose. With his complexion, he figured he could get away with saying he was simply a bit ill. It wasn't that whatever was happening affected him, but it meant that the air was full of pheromones - of desire, want, blood rushing heavily through veins and--
It disgusted him. He didn't want to hurt any of them. He would've stayed at home, if he hadn't been afraid it'd cost him his job. "Today, we'll be discussing recent television," he started, "It's faster-paced, cut more rapidly, making its departure from the theatre." He wasn't planning to be speaking long today. His classes always seemed to be affected by this sort of business. "Some say it's because our cultural attention span has gotten so short. Some say it's simply because we can absorb more information than we did previously. I'm not a scientist, I can't tell you which one it is, but I can tell you that modern standards of comedy seem to have fallen quite a bit."
"The television medium is much more scattered now. There's far more channels than in the past, when at best you'd get five or six. Now, you can watch a hundred different things or more, geared towards your tastes, wishes, and expectations. Cooking channels, comedy channels, news channels. Anything you might want to learn, anything you might want to follow, anything you might want to have fun with? It's there on the TV. Just a click of the remote away."
He went into a bit of a routine about sci-fi and fantasy channels and fiction, but it was a bit sketchy, along the lines of, 'sci-fi is about the future, fantasy has dragons, all of these types have their standards'. "Then there's the sitcom," he finished, at last, "Developed back in the 50s, perfected in the 80s. Situational comedy. A cast of characters operating from the same 'situation', like a drama with jokes. It's often about the dialogue."
He pointed at the TV with the remote. "Today, we'll be watching different channels. You'll discuss what defines each and every one of them. What are the most obvious visual markers? Who does the channel seem to be geared at? Would you watch it on your own?"
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