The show was designed to be easy on the eyes. Chock full of visuals and sounds and music and every editing trick yet invented, the pacing is designed to keep the attention of the "young generation".
The show was teaching us to be good consumers, not only of what they were trying to sell us (music and goodies), but also to be good audience members. What jokes are good to laugh at? When? And if you don't get the joke, then you need to figure out what you are missing.
That was the biggest influence on me, it implanted a growing lust of curiosity, for history, for everything around these 4 characters and their beachhouse. What world were they living in and how much of it was real? Whether it was real or not didn't matter, it was a tv show and y its very nature, unreal.
It taught me to be aware of the line that tips fiction away from reality, and vice versa. And to understand when reality is worse than fiction. (Like now)
The show was teaching us to be good consumers, not only of what they were trying to sell us (music and goodies), but also to be good audience members. What jokes are good to laugh at? When? And if you don't get the joke, then you need to figure out what you are missing.
That was the biggest influence on me, it implanted a growing lust of curiosity, for history, for everything around these 4 characters and their beachhouse. What world were they living in and how much of it was real? Whether it was real or not didn't matter, it was a tv show and y its very nature, unreal.
It taught me to be aware of the line that tips fiction away from reality, and vice versa. And to understand when reality is worse than fiction. (Like now)
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