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It should be noted that popular entertainments, whether TV, film or print literature, are products of their times and cater to an audience of that time; thus, they will always bear more resemblance to the society that produces them than to the time period actually depicted. For instance, ''Series/HappyDays'', set in the 1950s, looks far more like the 1970s, the decade when it was produced, than does ''Series/That70sShow'', produced in the early 2000s. Likewise, ''Series/FreaksAndGeeks'', a high school show produced in 1999, mostly looks and feels like late-90s high school life despite taking place in the early 80s. Even Aeschylus's depiction of the Trojan War depicts homoeroticism among the Achaeans because that was what was expected of manly aristocratic figures in the Athens of his day, despite the fact that it probably wasn't as big a fad at the time of the Trojan War. It's also why speculative fiction has such widely varying pictures of "TheFuture", and why ''WesternAnimation/TheJetsons'' (originally produced in the 1960s) portrays a future of technological marvels, but still assumes the push-button kitchen of tomorrow will be presided over by an apron-wearing housewife; it was beyond comprehension that automation in the home would result in women having lives outside it.
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It should be noted that popular entertainments, entertainment, whether TV, film film, or print literature, are products of their times and cater to an audience of that time; thus, they will always bear more resemblance to the society that produces them than to the time period actually depicted. For instance, ''Series/HappyDays'', set in the 1950s, looks far more like the 1970s, the decade when it was produced, than does ''Series/That70sShow'', produced in the early 2000s. Likewise, ''Series/FreaksAndGeeks'', a high school show produced in 1999, mostly looks and feels like late-90s high school life despite taking place in the early 80s. Even Aeschylus's depiction of the Trojan War depicts homoeroticism among the Achaeans because that was what was expected of manly aristocratic figures in the Athens of his day, despite the fact that it probably wasn't as big a fad at the time of the Trojan War. It's also why speculative fiction has such widely varying pictures of "TheFuture", and why ''WesternAnimation/TheJetsons'' (originally produced in the 1960s) portrays a future of technological marvels, but still assumes the push-button kitchen of tomorrow will be presided over by an apron-wearing housewife; it was beyond comprehension that automation in the home would result in women having lives outside it.
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