Kids today. Let me tell YOU.
Jul. 15th, 2005 01:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thebitterguyYou know what's aggravating me? Annoying me? Causing me distress? How EASY people have it today. No, I'm not talking in terms of anything IMPORTANT, I'm talking about getting to see Genre shows that aren't showing in your country yet.
Every Tom, Dick & Harriet down in the Holy Republic who's got half a care to has been able to see the new Dr. Who show, even though it isn't being shown anywhere in that country. Which, really, is great. But in my day, if you wanted to watch a show that wasn't on in your country, we didn't have Torrents, we didn't have P2P systems. If you wanted to see a show, you had to have a friend! In that country! And they would send you, for example, the last four episodes of B5 for season 3. And you'd sprint down to your local video entrepreneur and get a PAL-NTSC conversion done, and you'd devour them like a happy monkey.
And that was work, man! Building contacts, getting things shipped, getting conversions done? That was HARD! You had to work for it. And when you were done, you took it to a friend's place, and you watched Za'Ha'Dum, and you turned to each other and said "What?!? We have to wait six months to find out how that turns out?!?"
And you LIKED it. Because you EARNED it.
Every Tom, Dick & Harriet down in the Holy Republic who's got half a care to has been able to see the new Dr. Who show, even though it isn't being shown anywhere in that country. Which, really, is great. But in my day, if you wanted to watch a show that wasn't on in your country, we didn't have Torrents, we didn't have P2P systems. If you wanted to see a show, you had to have a friend! In that country! And they would send you, for example, the last four episodes of B5 for season 3. And you'd sprint down to your local video entrepreneur and get a PAL-NTSC conversion done, and you'd devour them like a happy monkey.
And that was work, man! Building contacts, getting things shipped, getting conversions done? That was HARD! You had to work for it. And when you were done, you took it to a friend's place, and you watched Za'Ha'Dum, and you turned to each other and said "What?!? We have to wait six months to find out how that turns out?!?"
And you LIKED it. Because you EARNED it.
