The importance of TV

I was talking yesterday about the important of TV, and why I think we do watch TV, and so I decided why not continue on my blogging binge, and write more about TV

I think another huge part of why we watch TV is the aspect of community asciated with it. Ever since TV was first invented, it was always a family thing, it was an hour or whatever a week were the whole family would gather together to watch TV. Of course there has been some subjestion that watching TV as a family is actually not good, because it connects you to the TV, and not to each other, to which I reply, that is misusing the purpose of TV. 

As I was talking yesterday we watch TV to get that burst of emotion, that lets them know they are human, and can feel and experience emotion. And so when we get this emotion, which is such a rare thing in our lives, we want it to last, and the best way we know how to do that is to share it. To talk about it with our friends.

Before the internet these friends would live close to you, and you would probably see them the next day at school/work or whatever, in which you could talk to them, but today, the world is so connected, we have friends from all around the world. We don't have to wait till the next day to talk to people, we can log onto a chat room and talk about the show right then and there, we can capitalise on our feelings, and explore them, while they are still fresh, and that is why we pirate, because we want to be caught up in the show to experience the emotions fresh, to fully explore and revile in them.

I streamed last nights episode of Fringe and was completely blown away by the ending, that I just had to talk about. Fringe does what I was saying, it manipulates my emotions so much, that by the end I was just bursting with emotion, and I was completely sucked in, and felt so many different things it was amazing. For at least another hour after the episode, I couldn't talk coherently about it, because I still had all that emotion inside of me, and for another 6 hours, I could still feel that emotion, that excitement, that heartbreak. Because I talked about it on the internet I explored it, and I explored it with people who same way as I did, they experienced the same emotions, understood what I was feeling, I understood what I was feeling, if only for an hour, and to be understood that way is a very rare thing.

So while yes, these emotions are false, and maybe we should spend more time seeking out physical communication instead, TV is certainly is not some form of flitting unreal communication, the best of it at least, really is art, and incredibly impressive art as well, given the limitations placed on TV (really it one of the far more limiting art forms, tight budgets, set time limits and a very small amount of time to create such things-what other medium has that many requirements) so I really believe that TV can and is, important, and definitely not to be disregarded.