The 90s Nostalgia Thread

Sounds like The Crystal Maze. <shrugs>

Looks interesting.

I've been archive binging on The X Files recently. I forgot just how good that show actually was...sure, the special effects have aged poorly but the writing is as sharp as it ever was. Sharper in fact than most of the children it spawned.

Imitation is the laziest form of flattery.

I keep meaning to look up the X-Files, but I haven't managed to yet. I did get to watch the complete series of Twin Peaks last year, which I suspect was kind of an inspiration.

Ahhhh, Twin Peaks. I still have no idea what was going on in that.

David Lynch making stuff up as he went along, looks like.

Morgkit called it. I tried to watch that show once, it made very little sense. I'm guessing J.J. Abrams was a fan.

I just finished watching a Let's Play of Deadly Premonition and that was heavily heavily inspired by Twin Peaks. The main character takes advice from his coffee and has an "imaginary friend" that he talks to even in front of other people.

edited 17th Aug '13 4:15:29 PM by WillKeaton

Doesn't everybody listen to their coffee? Mine usually doesn't give advice, though. Usually, I just get told how tired I look.

Babylon Five, man that show was pure awesome. The effects have aged well and the writing was very good. Deep Space Nine was good too.

Voyager...not so much...

There is no part of Voyager that was as bad as the first season of TNG or DS 9.

... Threshold doesn't exist.

edited 22nd Aug '13 8:30:11 PM by TParadox

I pretty much was watching Voyager for Seven Of Nine...

Robot Wars! I remember getting up before my parents on Saturdays so I could watch that with my brother.

Robot Wars and pizza. For a while, that was the combo.

My brother said that those were actually on at five o'clock in the morning here. I didn't realise we were so dedicated to that show... I assumed it only felt super early to me because I was young.

~wikis it~ Lister was the host?

Not originally. Jezza started it (but, frankly... he was a bit pants). If you're busy with Google, might I recommend giving the word "Hypno-Disc" a spin in conjunction with other key words? You can thank me later... (it could really tear other robots apart, that one).

edited 30th Aug '13 6:13:45 PM by Euodiachloris

I dressed up as Quailman for Dragon*Con and have been nostalgia bombing so many people. It's glorious.

Choobs, that's fucking awesome.

I am on so many rando people's cameras except mine.

You need to get a picture of that. It is a requirement.

Okay, who here only got to watch PBS when they were little?

I got the SABC when we moved to South Africa: you're lucky. <_< Two channels. One split Afrikaans (Tues, Thurs, Sat, part-Sun) and English (Mon, Wed, Fri, part-Sun — it alternated between Sundays whether it was early or later), the other mainly isiXhosa and Sesotho, but with the occasional isiZulu or Setstwana program thrown in (similar deal). If SABC2 was even working, that was. <_< A few areas had SABC3 if there were more than four major languages in that area.

Moving back to the UK was a revelation with four channels. And, wow: content!

Oh... and when I say "split" on Sundays, I really mean it. If a major sports event was on, you'd have to listen to the commentators in your language on the radio if you happened to hit the wrong part of the day for that day. The good news was the same thing worked if you were trying to watch the dubbed version of e.g. Remington Steele: the original soundtrack and vocals would be simulcast on one of the radio stations. And, it'd switch to the dubbed one for the day it was broadcast in English on the TV.

The switch over to network television (rather than state-only) occurred in the early 90s, but the old way of doing things persisted for quite a bit... as not everybody got cable or satellite to work in their areas for a while. M-Net...

edited 30th Oct '13 5:58:19 AM by Euodiachloris

In The '90s my part of NM just got cable. Most of the time we had the big 3 nets and PBS. As soon as we got cable things changed.

I was in college at the time. Even though it was only another 5 channels at the time it was still awesome. USA networks re-ran ExoSquad and then there was Lexx. CNN had their specials, I loved "Cold War". Ah UPN, StarTrekVoyager and 'rastlin...

Honestly I tried watching the X-files but could never get into it. I loved Babylon Five and I could tell that X-files never had that sense of scope. I loved the music on the show (Soul Coughing <3) but every episode seems confusing. It was like those cheezy horror movies my cousins, friends and I would rent from the video store and watch late at nite. Scary but forgettable.

edited 29th Oct '13 9:23:09 PM by TairaMai