Comments on: Gone with the Wind Gone with the Wind https://www.isegoria.net/2015/06/gone-with-the-wind-gone-with-the-wind/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Tue, 12 May 2026 23:05:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Bruce https://www.isegoria.net/2015/06/gone-with-the-wind-gone-with-the-wind/comment-page-1/#comment-2328101 Bruce Tue, 30 Jun 2015 05:29:02 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=38339#comment-2328101 Dukes of Hazzard pilot unwatchable? Did you not see the outhouse blown up by a dynamite arrow? That’s some quality television right there. It’s the second season and beyond, when they went from treating the hicks as tough, smart, capable hicks to treating them as jackastical retards that get hard to watch.

]]> By: Grasspunk https://www.isegoria.net/2015/06/gone-with-the-wind-gone-with-the-wind/comment-page-1/#comment-2327546 Grasspunk Mon, 29 Jun 2015 16:10:18 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=38339#comment-2327546 We like old TV in our house, but we tend to watch British shows. I’ll list a few in case others want to try. Our family (including 4 smallish kids) happily watch The Professionals, Blakes 7, To The Manor Born. I like Yes, Minister but haven’t got the kids hooked yet, which is too bad since it is the best of the lot. I doubt I could sit through Starsky and Hutch, CHiPs or Miami Vice again.

I did try Star Trek Next Gen, and they hated it. What freaks me out is when they like old movies — 39 Steps, Casablanca, Life and Death of Colonel Blimp. Maybe there’s a French childhood thing going on, because they do get exposed to a lot of old cinema through school. Miss 12 saw The Vikings with Tony Curtis and Kirk Douglas at the cinema with her class, and it was subtitled rather than dubbed.

]]> By: Thales https://www.isegoria.net/2015/06/gone-with-the-wind-gone-with-the-wind/comment-page-1/#comment-2327479 Thales Mon, 29 Jun 2015 13:55:17 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=38339#comment-2327479

That whole era is likely to be unwatchable.

I can confirm this, having recently attempted to watch both A-Team and Knight Rider.

]]> By: Isegoria https://www.isegoria.net/2015/06/gone-with-the-wind-gone-with-the-wind/comment-page-1/#comment-2325999 Isegoria Sat, 27 Jun 2015 18:57:44 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=38339#comment-2325999 Now that you mention it, I’m not sure Daisy Duke even appears in the first 20 minutes of the pilot. Those 1970s shows move slowly.

]]> By: Bob Sykes https://www.isegoria.net/2015/06/gone-with-the-wind-gone-with-the-wind/comment-page-1/#comment-2325794 Bob Sykes Sat, 27 Jun 2015 12:28:29 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=38339#comment-2325794 Unwatchable? Even Catherine Bach?

By the way, Magnum PI is running again on some cable/satellite channel. It, too, is unwatchable. That whole era is likely to be unwatchable.

]]> By: Dussibom https://www.isegoria.net/2015/06/gone-with-the-wind-gone-with-the-wind/comment-page-1/#comment-2325553 Dussibom Sat, 27 Jun 2015 03:39:22 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=38339#comment-2325553 The way I recall it, it has a sweetness almost heartwarming today. The good guys so kindly, so exuberant. Almost pastoral. A kind of joyful concoction. Its world is fantasy, but idyllic. But if you can’t suspend disbelief, I can understand the reaction. I might react the same if I tried it again.

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