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Post by paulf on Apr 9, 2023 14:58:29 GMT -5
exploded before my eyes. One of the oldies TV networks aired my favorite old show...so I thought after all these years...today. James Garner in Nichols. Back in '71 it was my most favorite. I never missed an episode and was saddened when it was cancelled after one season. Today I see why. Garner and Margolin who teamed up in Rockford a year or so later were the only bright spots. Nobody else could act their way out of a paper bag and the story, which may have been campy back in the 70s was so bad I may have been one of the writers.
In the 70s I was still enamored with my first love, I was still running and playing baseball and my new wife (not the old girlfriend) and I were several years from our first child. A garden was not included in the activities I found to be fun.
Fifty some years later, old girlfriends are a distant memory, I can't run more than a few steps, I still umpire kids ball games, gardening has become a main hobby and after 52 years of marriage to the same bride we have a pile of grandkids. But I will not be watching Nichols any more. Some fantasies are better left alone.
Maybe this will be the last memory essay since the garden needs to be tended to shortly.
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Apr 10, 2023 6:43:12 GMT -5
paulf, I have also had the experience of re-watching something I loved as a kid or teen and quickly becoming disillusioned with it. We humans have a habit of editing our own memories to remember only the good about things we liked, and only the bad about things we strongly disliked. So sometimes when we look at something again after the passage of decades we form a very different opinion of it. Good luck getting your garden started!
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Post by octave1 on Apr 10, 2023 9:54:01 GMT -5
The same happened to me after watching the movie "Brasil" for the second time many years later. I loved it at 25, but after 30 years the movie seemed just dumb. The plot made no sense, and what I considered clever twists turned out to be just silly, predictable gigs. Now I am careful and avoid watching something I really loved in the past. I'd rather keep good memories.
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Post by september on Apr 10, 2023 20:44:33 GMT -5
I can relate as well. Being horse crazy as teens, my best friend and I used to watch all the western series over at her house because my folks refused to get a TV. A couple of years ago, I was excited to discover DVD's of the Wide Country series with Earl Holliman, and also Stoney Burke, which we liked less well but it was rodeo, so heck, we had to watch it! I tried to watch a couple of shows and they seemed so slow and uninteresting! I was going to mail the videos off to my girlfriend just to get rid of them. Unfortunately she died before I had a chance to burden her with them!
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