BarneyPiccolo

Before X Files, most hour long dramas shows were just episodic, with a basic relationship between characters. If you wanted a long, multi-episode story arc, you wanted daily afternoon soap operas. Then in the 80s, they started doing shows like Dallas and Knot's Landing, which were essentially soap operas, but with a weekly schedule instead of daily.

So people started liking the idea of a running story arc accompanying their episodic shows. The problem with X Files is that they didn't realize this until they were too deep into it to fix it. The episodic shows were great, but the subplot with smoking man, all those guys meeting in the dark, the black goo, etc, all turned out to be just mindless, aimless meandering, with no concept of a cohesive story.

People thought they were caught up in this complex world that had been built, and it all turned out to be literally nothing. Very disappointing. I was so pissed about it, that stopped watching the show at that point.

I've thought of that, too, but they take up so much space. I can create a much better performing and sounding audio system in a much smaller space. This much floor real estate could house a shelf that could hold hundreds of LPs (or CDS).

I'm with you on the vinyl. I was glad to get rid of it, and the pops and clicks, the need to clean every record before playing, etc

Years later, I came to realize that the whole ritual of removing the LP from its various sleeves, carefully handling it by the edges, checking for warps, blowing off the loose dust, carefully setting it on the platter, carefully cleaning it with a Discwasher or some other system, them finally carefully setting the needle down, only to do it all again in 20 minutes when you flip the record, and then reversing the entire process to put it away, became a ritual that gave the playing of a record a feeling of importance, as if it were an important cultural experience. By doing that often, it became exactly that, and a person's record collection became an important indicator of their personality. Music felt important, an integral part of a person's being, all because we treated it almost like a religious ritual.

Today, music seems so disposable.

This is what we had, with no TV. You could store records in the center section.

Most works published before 1930 are in the public domain. It happens automatically. Next year l, it will 1931. So being thousands of year sold, mythological stories have been public domain for many years.

We finally get a true Progressive candidate, and the Establishment Democrats' true colors come out.

X Files was the first one where it was getting weirder and weirder, and everybody was asking what was going on, and the show finally came out to say that they never really had a story line. They never really planned one, and then the show caught on really big, and people got really invested in it, and expected a story arc, and they admitted they didn't have one. It became the beginning of the end for the show.

Attack Mexico.

Start Draft.

Great Value Mengele

Oh, yeah, nobody is stealing my shoes.

Oh, the criminals should definitely be punished, they don't get a pass, that's MAGA thinking.

But I'm not going to offer any sympathy for this psychpath as a victim. He has killed too many people for me to care about him.

Those who refuse to respect the dignity of others, should not expect to have their dignity respected in return.