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From: barmar@mit-eddie.UUCP (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: net.tv
Subject: Re: Amazing Stories : Fine Tuning
Message-ID: <444@mit-eddie.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 15-Nov-85 01:34:38 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov 15 01:34:38 1985
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In article <2285@sdcc6.UUCP> ix442@sdcc6.UUCP (Nidhal Guessoum{|ix}) writes:
>	Could anyone believe that such supposedly highly
>	intelligent creatures would waste their time watching
>	such primitive tv shows ?

That is the whole point or the episode.  Spielberg grew up on TV's
"Golden Age", and he just wanted to remind everyone about those good ol'
days, by showing a new set of viewers enjoying them for the first time.
He drove the point home by including Milton Berle, the 50's "Mr.
Televison".  "Primitive" is in the eye of the viewer; in general, the
quality of TV in the fifties is considered higher than modern TV,
probably because not as many households had TV sets (they didn't have to
aim for the lowest common denominator).
-- 
    Barry Margolin
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