To: BigCinBigD
I think a lot more people have evolved out of mindless entertainment ... the Dick Van Dyke, I Love Lucy, Alf etc ... type of programming (analyze THAT word!) and has become more cerebral
We like the NCIS type of show because most have a plot that oftimes can't be determined right away (we like the mental gymnastics of trying to figure it out), and action crap (most have no story but a lot of fighting, crashing, blowing up .. etc.)
My wife is a FR widow and, in spite of themselves ... my talk and language has a lot of my more dense acquaintances starting to say ... hmmmmm
6 posted on
03/12/2015 12:54:17 AM PDT by
knarf
(I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but, they're true)
To: knarf
I think a lot more people have evolved out of mindless entertainment ... the Dick Van Dyke, I Love Lucy, Alf etc ... type of programming (analyze THAT word!) and has become more cerebral Are you kidding? Those oldies are one of main reasons I got streaming Netflix. Dick Van Dyke, I Love Lucy, Leave it to Beaver, Andy Griffith, The Rockford Files... Now THAT's TV!!
23 posted on
03/12/2015 1:55:20 AM PDT by
Ken H
(DILLIGAF)
To: knarf
I will take Dick Van Dyke or I love Lucy over the garbage on TV now anyday.
31 posted on
03/12/2015 2:49:36 AM PDT by
reaganaut
(Ex-Mormon, now Christian. "I once was lost but now am found, was blind but now I see")
To: knarf
because most have a plot that oftimes can't be determined right away
Many of those 'detective' dramas follow a basic script. After a few minutes -- yeap, that is the perp. At the end of the program, more times than not, my selectee was either the perp or a partner with the perp.
Scripted programs follow a basic pattern. That makes it relatively easy to 'predict' things.
69 posted on
03/12/2015 7:06:02 AM PDT by
TomGuy
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