Reading the Babylon 5 thread makes me nostalgic for the series. I watched it back in the '90s, it was great. I'd love to see it again someday. But I've got a pretty good memory for shows and books; I can't enjoy them as much when I know the story too well, and I'll have to wait a lot longer yet for my memory to get fuzzy enough before I can watch the series again for it to be fresh enough. (Otherwise, if it's too fresh in my mind, I'll have a tendency to nitpick instead of being caught up in the story.)
And that's gotten me thinking about Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. (Which is another good story that I can't watch again yet for a long time . ) I'd never wipe out any memories of people. But it's tempting to wipe out my memories of some great show or movie or book, and then to leave myself a note recommending it...
And I've thought about that further and decided that would be a bad thing; good stories that touched my life became a part of my life, and the time in my life that I came across them was important. It was important for me to read The Dispossessed in 1989, and Speaker for the Dead in 1992, and The Time Traveller's Wife in 2005.
(But, still, it'd be tempting to have a few "fluff" books or shows that I could erase to enjoy again, when I felt like I really wanted something I'd know I'd like. Good Omens... Wonderfalls... Raising Arizona...)
Posted by The White Whale (Member # 6594) on :
quote: Lister: "There, I've done it." Holly: "Done what?" Lister: "Erased Agatha Christie." Holly: "Who's she then?" Lister: "Hol, you just asked me to erase all Agatha Christie novels from your memory." Holly: "Why should I do that, I've never heard of her!" Lister: "You've never heard of her because I've just erased her from your smegging memory!" Holly: "What you do that for?!" Lister: "You asked me to!" Holly: "When?" Lister: "Just now!" Holly: "I don't remember this!"
(From Red Dwarf: Confidence and Paranoia, Series I)
Posted by Tara (Member # 10030) on :
quote: And that's gotten me thinking about Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. (Which is another good story that I can't watch again yet for a long time . [Frown] ) I'd never wipe out any memories of people. But it's tempting to wipe out my memories of some great show or movie or book, and then to leave myself a note recommending it...
I wish I could erase The Lives of Others from my memory so I could watch it again for the first time. It's the kind of movie that's really only good the first time you see it, but it's so amazing. Not any other movies, though -- if I like a movie enough, I can watch twice in a day if I want to.
Posted by Mucus (Member # 9735) on :
I would seriously like watching Babylon 5 that way. Originally I watched one part of S1, then bits of S3, and S4 (not necessarily in order) since we got it *very* irregularly on broadcast TV.
It would have been nice to view it properly from the get-go.
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) I'd never wipe out any memories of people. But it's tempting to wipe out my memories of some great show or movie or book, and then to leave myself a note recommending it...