Ask me in 1999, and I would tell you I don’t care for TV. that excluding Star Trek, it is contrived, vapid, or too dramatic to be neatly resolved in 46 minutes.. which it still usually is.
THEN – Enter Ds9, then Buffy, then Angel, then Firefly, 24, and Lost – I have migrated to TV, and finally there is an article about why.
http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/02/24/120812.php
So, is TV better than Movies now.. Well.. I’d tell you.. but I have to see What Kete, Sawyer, and Jack are up to.
One thing he missed…
One thing he missed — or, more likely, glossed over because he didn’t want it to become the focus of the piece — is the effect of P2P networking on TV shows.
P2P distribution of TV is HUGE. I’d guess it’s bigger than DVD sales. As transforming as DVD sales were for TV shows, P2P distribution has made fans — and DVD buyers — of millions of people who otherwise would never have the time to watch the entire show.
DVD sales have had a spectacular effect, too. I would not have ever seen Angel, Buffy, or Firefly (except, perhaps, for an episode here and there) if not for DVD sales.
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Matthew P. Barnson