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xoverworkedandunderpaidx · 8 months

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Honestly still mad that they un-nerdified our boy. Made him interested in biographies or some serious shit, like Dimitri's whole appeal wasn't that he's just some super buff dork doing a permanent low key cosplay of his favourite westerns and cranking 80's love ballads while making heart eyes at his boss-bitch girlfriend.

#romitri #dimitri belikov #rose hathaway #vampire academy #vampire academy tv show #they really just sat in that writers room and removed all of the indignity #and i will die mad about it #give dimitri the westerns and 80's sound track that he deserves or give me death #idk why the movie and show thought this was the least appealing part about him #GIRL IT IS THE MOST APPEALING

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yodeleyewho · 5 months

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bss-the-artist · 1 month

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M*A*S*H TV Guide covers through the years.

#m*a*s*h #mashposting #mashblr #tv guide #vintage #art #magazine #70s tv shows #80s television #hawkeye pierce #margaret houlihan #max klinger

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eightiesfan · 25 days

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ESPN Bodyshaping - 1989

#espn #bodyshaping #1980s #80s tv #80s tv shows #90s tv shows #workout #fitness #80's #90's

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hallowswhisper · 2 years

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Halloween: NICKELODEON 🎃

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kidcore-nostalgia · 4 months

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#rupert the bear #rupert #kidcore #nostalgia #nostalgic #retro #cartoons #santa #videos #childhood #1980s #80s kid #british #eighties #80's #kids tv #tv shows

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yodaprod · 2 years

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Mtv (1989)

#the rocky horror picture show #mtv #tv #red #horror #1980s #80's #80s #1989

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haveyouheardofthisshow · 5 months

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#have you heard of this show #tv shows #that 80s show #that 80's show #glenn howerton #poll #polls #please share to help me out :)

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stagefoureddiediaz · 13 days

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Also Crockett and Tubbs is A. Choice!!!!

Joined at the hip, always always put their partnership above everything and anyone. Buck and Eddie’s story has a fair few parallels to Crockett and Tubs and there are definitely a lot of queer undertones to the duo!!

#its been a very long time since I watched Miami vice (I was a teenager) but even teenage me who was very sheltered picked up #the queer undertones of their relationship!#but this was the 80’s so no way was a big tv show going to tell a queer story #911 spoilers #obessed with the storytelling

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mysterious-prophetess · 2 months

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Things to keep in mind when writing works set in other decades PART 2!

Part 1—I touched on Tech

Part 2—Culture/Pop Culture

Culture

This part is a potential minefield, but it does bear commenting, so here goes.

Culture has shifted a lot between different decades. Especially the last fifty years.

A lot has happened in the past ten/fifteen years that would be unthinkable in the early 2000's, let alone the 70's, 80's, or 90's.

So, just keep in mind that we—as a society—are different now than we were then.

So, onto a less fraught topic: Pop Culture!

Make sure certain Pop culture things actually existed in whatever time your work is set.

E.G. social media (I consider this more pop culture than tech).

Prior to the late 00's, the only major "social media" was MySpace. Facebook wasn't a big thing until just before the 2010's, YouTube was brand new in 2004, our beloathed blue hellsite(affectionate) didn't exist until 2009, and Twitter(I will never call it anything else) 2013, and TikTok didn't spawn out of hell until 2016. Ergo, any works set before certain years should not have different combinations of these.

One should also check to see if certain books/movies/games/songs/tv shows were out too.

We fans can often know a lot about a LOT of things, and nothing is more jarring than seeing someone in a work set in the 2000's talk about watching a movie from years later.

Slang is something else to consider.

Unless it's part of a catchphrase or particular speech pattern, it can also be a bit jarring. That's why I often avoid using slang, when possible, because it is the quickest way to date a work.

This happened to the 2007 film Juno.

BONUS ROUND—Fashion!

Fashion is also part of pop culture and I gotta say, you really need to double check this too because it has fluctuated the most!

For example, with all the 80's nostalgia, I have to rain on parades because I've seen pictures of 80's fashion from family albums of the era, and the neon stuff they like to push as "totally 80's" was toward the END of the decade and overspilled onto the early 90's.

Again, Tl:Dr—Do the research if your work is set in our world, but not the current day, because it can really show in a bad way.

#advice #the 80's were also a lot more brown than one might think #as were the early 90's #and we shifted from 80's hang-over to more plaids and plain stuff in the mid 90's.#just check out TV shows from the era

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vispera-sabbath · 6 months

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For Miami Vice day, Nov 4th.

#miami vice #miami vice day 2023 #tv shows #80's #gifs #my stuff #edit #sonny x rico #james sonny crockett #sonny crockett #ricardo tubbs #rico tubbs #don johnson #philip michael thomas #my gifs

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arconinternet · 5 months

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3-2-1 Contact (Videos, 1980-1989)

The science series from the Children’s Television Workshop, later the Sesame Workshop. You can watch various episodes of the show here and here.

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originalgravity · 1 year

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remembertheplunge · 3 months

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The Exclamation Point

August 7, 1990

I watched a beautiful episode of the TV show “Family” tonight.

I loved it. Willie’s friend Zeke comes out as being gay to him. Zeke says “I still am allergic to strawberries. I’m still the guy that you always knew. The same. And, Zeke, like me, learned at age 13. He slept in the garden a few nights, at age 13, in hopes it (being gay) would go away. It didn’t.

Willie was furious. They were long time friends. They shared everything but he exclamation point (Zeke was gay)

This is why I have dropped Sam. So afraid that “knowing” I’m gay might hurt him. For, I believe that he, too, is of the" exclamation point." And, if so, that he is predisposed to self destruct over it. I never want to play Williie-Zeke roll with him. It’s best that in silence we just end it.

And yet, on other plains, my gay life blooms here and there. I come into my culture, or, we come into each other. And, how grand and how glorious it is. A splendid way of being, really.

End of entry

“Family” was a TV show that ran from 1976 to 1980. It was about a white family which included a son, Willie, who was probably in his late teens.

#journaling #writing #8/7/1990 #Family TV show 1976-1980 #Coming out to o friend #Wishing your gayness would go away. Discovering that being gay is grand and glorious.#Being gay is the exclamation point of a life!#I come into my gay culture #discovering you are gay at age 13 #a coming out TV episode in the late 70's early 80's #ground breaking for it's time re: Family: Zeke comes out to Willie

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episodicnostalgia · 7 months

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Star Trek: The Next Generation, 112 (Jan. 16, 1988) - “Datalore”

Written by: Robert Lewin & Gene Roddenberry Directed by: Rob Bowman

Episode Breakdown

Data gets an origin story!

The episode begins with the Enterprise’s arrival at the colony where Data was discovered. We’re told that colonists all died under mysterious circumstances before Data was activated; as such he’s unable to shed any light on the matter (Presumably the ship that found Data never had time to investigate). Picard figures they might as well take a look around since they’re in the neighbourhood, because what’s the worst that could happen? While on the planet’s surface, the away team discover that Data is the creation of Noonien Soong, a brilliant scientist who disappeared after a failed-first-attempt at creating a positronic brain; since that is precisely the type of brain Data possesses, the team rightly concludes that Noonien finally succeeded in achieving his goal. The team also discover a second android that looks exactly like Data, albeit disassembled. Since Data is understandably curious, Riker agrees to take Data’s twin back to the Enterprise to rebuild him.

In a twist that may shock you, Data’s long-lost twin (named Lore) turns out to be evil; he’s also capable of greater emotional expression, including the ability to lie convincingly. It turns out Lore was Noonien’s first android who, prior to being disassembled, summoned a giant crystalline entity from space to consume the colonists. Somewhere along the way, Noonien figured out that his new creation might be a raging psychopath and took Lore apart before building Data (and also before getting eaten). Now free to roam the ship, Lore inevitably betrays and deactivates Data, with the intention of signalling his old Crystaline pal to come eat the Enterprise crew. However, since Wesley is (annoyingly) the most amazing boy in the universe, he’s able to see through Lore’s pretense. With the help of Dr. Crusher, Wesley gets Data back online just in time for the two Androids to duke it out until he can beam Lore into space, (where Picard presumably decides to leave him without any further discussion).

Thoughts

So far ‘Datalore’ has been the best episode of the season. We get some decent world building, a good intro to Data’s evil twin, and nice dose of tension and atmosphere. What’s not to love? Even the moments that feel dated (and there are many) all add to the episode’s charm. There are still a handful of times I had to roll my eyes at specific bits of dialogue, but if the ending had been a little stronger I almost would have considered giving this an extra half-star.

3.5 stars (out of 5)

Stray observations:

Picard’s (mostly) not an asshole: That traumatizing holodeck adventure from last episode must have been more relaxing than expected. For the most part he seems to be in an uncharacteristically encouraging mood towards his crew.

Except Wesley. Picard really lets the kid have it this week. He must still be mad about that time Wesley got impaled and then didn’t die a couple episodes back.

There are some rather pointed scenes where Picard and Co. go out of their way to be exceptionally reasonable and mature about a variety of potentially difficult or awkward subjects (mostly regarding the nature Data and Lore’s sentiency/creation); it would be fine except that they keep commenting on it. My guess is that it’s an example of Gene Roddenberry’s influence, who was known for wanting to avoid depictions of interpersonal conflict between the crew. But personally, I like to think this is a result of HR calling out Picard for his less-than-cordial behaviour from previous episodes, and so now the captain is on his best behaviour, and everyone is acting like it “never even bothered me that much anyway, I heard other people were complaining, but not me.”

Okay I hate to say it but… ugh, Wesley was right. After deactivating Data, Lore masquerades as his brother. The crew test Lore with questions he wouldn’t know the answer to, but they do it in the most easy-to-evade way. It’s pretty unintentionally funny, but means the adults were missing what any child should have been able to (and evidently DID) see.

HAHA! Wesley saves the ship and Picard is like “fine, you can go back to the bridge, now beat it!” Zero apologies of any kind. Excellent. It’s as if even the writers were pissed that Wesley saved the day, and honestly I get that.

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hedleylamarr · 8 months

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