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Dawson's Creek
1998 · TV series · 44 min episodes · 6 seasons
Created by Kevin Williamson
Dawson's Creek is an American teen drama that portrays the fictional lives of a close-knit group of teenagers through high school and college.
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Those kinds of changes irritate me more than they probably should, and for such an annoying reason as ads makes it even worse.
If you're watching a show, it should be the same show it was before. I want to see the historical record of how it was when it was broadcast originally.
Same thing when they change other things about the show, eg Dawson's Creek where they have now completely changed the music because of some licensing garbage. It's not the same show.
I don't even watch Dawson's Creek and it annoys me.
Maybe overstating it but I feel that it's important for our cultural heritage.
Say someone recommends a show to you, then you watch it but you're actually watching what is essentially a different show...
Your memory is good but I think that was the form given in a Dawson's Creek episode (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0555133/quotes).
The one that Goodreads and other sites attribute to Flaubert is: "Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory." I couldn't find a source for this but I think rather than Flaubert this is from Julian Barnes's book Flaubert's Parrot, which has:
“Remember the botched brothel-visit in L’Education sentimentale and remember its lesson. Do not participate: happiness lies in the imagination, not the act. Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.” (https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/1414912-flaubert-s-parrot).
This quote does not appear in the full text of that book, though (https://archive.org/stream/sentimentaleduca00flauiala/sentimentaleduca00flauiala_djvu.txt).
I totally agree with the sentiment expressed, of course. The real lover not being as beautiful or desirable as the imagined version is a common motif esp. in Middle Eastern literature.
Right, if you mean to watch in one sitting, that wasn't something you could do in the '60s. But it's something that seems like it's been common since the '90s, since the advent of the "DVD Box Set". People would get box sets and watch these long-narrative-arc series in marathon weekends, or socially in parties. There was a period in the 1990s when seemingly everyone I knew was organizing Twin Peaks parties, and it seems like it fits the description of long-running experimental novel. People did that with the X-Files too, though admittedly it was a more coherent experience if you cut the "monster-of-the-week" episodes from the sequence (but hey, leave them in, and make it a gigantic, sprawling novel with disconnected subplots, of the Alexandre Dumas variety). Or Dawson's Creek, for that matter, or Buffy as you mentioned. In my circle of friends it seemed everyone was gorging themselves on Babylon 5, Star Trek, Black Adder, and Monty Python box sets as well; I don't know if I'd describe those as narratively complex, but there are lighter novels, too.
But in any case, I could believe the numbers are different. Perhaps box sets were not as major a part of 1990s/2000s TV-watching as I had thought?