History Quotes / TwoDecadesBehind

->Aww, isn’t that cute, Mr. Dithers #gets #hashtags now! Unfortunately, the ''Blondie'' creative team doesn’t really #get that Twitter is not a [[CriticalResearchFailure texting or instant messaging service.]]
-->--'''''Blog/TheComicsCurmudgeon''''' on ''{{ComicStrip/Blondie}}''

->[[Creator/CaseyKasem Kasem's]] appearance is presumably there to give the first episode a big celebrity ratings push, with the logic ''“You know who the kids love? Men in their late fifties!”'' Incidentally, his hair is so badly dyed, he looks like a seabird that's been rescued from the wake of an overturned tanker.
-->--'''Stuart Millard''', ''So Excited, So Scared: The ''Series/SavedByTheBell'' Retrospective''

->It is never entirely clear whether it arrived too early or too late, but it never really felt like a show that should have been airing in early 2001.
-->--'''[[http://them0vieblog.com/2015/11/06/the-lone-gunmen-bond-jimmy-bond-review Darren Mooney]]''' on ''Series/TheLoneGunmen''

->''Film/JohnCarter'' became the biggest bomb in history in part because Andrew Stanton, the movie's director, mistakenly believed that we were as into Edgar Rice Burroughs as he was. Next time you waste $250 million shooting and reshooting a terrible movie based on obscure source material, ask around first. Not everyone is frothing for a ''Captain Koala'' movie, my friend.
-->--'''[[http://www.gq.com/entertainment/celebrities/201212/least-influential-people-2012#slide=16 Drew Magary]]''', "The 25 Least Influential People of 2012"

->Storywise, the fact that Vamp and Naomi Hunter both use [[ProductPlacement some failhard Japan-only cellphone]] is downright silly, considering that the setting is supposed to be years into {{the future}}, and both of them are on the cutting edge of technology research. Are we supposed to believe that average people are 'loading up on [[{{Nanomachines}} nanos]]' to control their constipation, while super-secret agents of the most elite operation in the world are using a piece of shit like that to talk to each other? It would be more believable if they were using telepathy!
-->--'''Terry Wolf''', [[http://www.metagearsolid.org/reports_mgs4_soldout_9.html "Metal Gear Soldout"]]

->I mean, seriously, it’s like the seamstress went straight to [[Wrestling/VinceMcMahon Vince]] and said, “What would a rock and roller wear?” and Vince, being his [[PopCultureIsolation 20 year out of touch]] self, screamed at the top of his lungs, “'''''[[NewAgeRetroHippie TYE DYE]], IDIOT! WHAT ELSE?'''''”\\\
You know, I can totally see that happening.
-->--'''''{{Website/Wrestlecrap}}''''' [[http://www.wrestlecrap.com/inductions/man-mountain-rock-to-quote-gorilla-monsoon-whatapaloozer/ on]] Wrestling/MaxxPayne's many costume changes

->But there’s an even bigger problem with being a copy of a copy of [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration a show]] that premiered [[TheEighties in 1987]]: you end up completely disconnected from everything happening on primetime TV in [[TurnOfTheMillennium the 2000s]]. I’m not saying ''Enterprise'' [[WereStillRelevantDammit should have made misguided attempts at being "contemporary"]], with [[JitterCam shaky hand-held cameras]], or multiple scenes unfolding in split screen, or plot threads lasting for years (though, when the show was circling the drain, they did experiment with a season-long arc). But the simple fact is, the medium constantly evolves, and viewers constantly want something fresh and original. And it’s getting harder and harder to do a TNG-style show with self-contained episodes that still feels fresh and original.
-->-- '''Website/TheAgonyBooth''''s [[http://www.agonybooth.com/star-trek-enterprise-a-night-in-sickbay-part-1-5987 recap]] of ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'', "A Night in Sickbay"

''"TheFifties. Y'know, back when everything was like a sitcom from TheSeventies."''

->While I’m delighted that ''Franchise/StarTrek'' is finally doing a show about AIDS, they should have done it in 1987, when it could have had a much greater impact. I think if the episode had been made, and if a plea for blood donors had been attached to the end of it as I had hoped, we could have ended the Red Cross’ chronic blood shortages.
-->-- Scriptwriter '''[[http://www.trekweb.com/stories.php?aid=Vkt.jZQNoOi.M David Gerrold]]''' on ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'', "Stigma"

->So, UsefulNotes/BarackObama give it up. You're stuck with TheSixties' battles. Even you acceptance speech tonight is on the 45th anniversary of Dr. King's "I Have a Dream" speech, the very movement of the Earth around the Sun is keeping you in the 60s. (Sun actually goes around Obama) We stick with these 40-year-old battles because they are comfortable and familiar. We know how to take sides in these arguments, besides if we didn't we'd have to address the problems of the present and who wants to do that? Those things are monsters! ([[TakeThat Created in Cheney's lab]])

->So let us keep fighting the culture wars of our grandparents, never mind that 50 percent of today's Americans weren't even born when these arguments mattered. (Less Hanoi Hilton, more Paris Hilton) They are still relevant today, the 60s are a political gift that keeps on giving because they are wounds our country can never heal. (As long as we keep picking at it)

->Nazis – whether [[ThoseWackyNazis literal]] or [[ANaziByAnyOtherName allegorical]] – seem to turn up with great frequency on the show. There are quite a few analogies made to the holocaust over the course of the show’s run. Two of the episodes from the show’s first season – including this one – deal with the legacy of splitting the atom. There’s a decidedly retro vibe to ''Voyager''[=‘=]s allegories and commentaries...It lends the whole adventure the feel of a throwback, as if ''Voyager'' is still writing for the politics of the sixties. (The costume design on the episode’s aliens doesn’t help – anti-nuclear protesters clad in [[NewAgeRetroHippie goofy-looking primary colours.]])
-->--'''Darren Mooney''' [[http://them0vieblog.com/2014/09/19/star-trek-voyager-time-and-again-review/ on]] ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'', "Time and Again"

->I can totally understand them wanting a pop song, to break out of the routine of having dull orchestral themes, like on the previous shows.\\\
But why did they have to pick ''this'' pop song? For those who don't know, the song is called "Where My Heart Will Take Me", and it's a dopey, bombastic, overproduced power ballad in the vein of anything {{Music/Heart}} or {{Music/Foreigner}} performed in their later years.\\\
It gets worse. In fact, the song was originally written for the movie ''Film/PatchAdams''. And sung by Music/RodStewart over the closing credits. And it was written by Diane Warren, who also penned songs for Music/MichaelBolton, Music/MilliVanilli, and, oh look, Heart...In reality, they were trying to inject life into their aging franchise with a theme song that you could play on the piano for your grandmother.
-->--'''''Website/TheAgonyBooth''''' on ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'', "A Night in Sickbay"

->Young {{Wrestling/Paige}} was THE hot act in ''[[{{Wrestling/WWENXT}} NXT]]'' prior to her arrival on the main roster. Since that time, she has [[HeelFaceRevolvingDoor flip-flopped as a babyface and heel so often]] it has even Wrestling/BigShow shaking his head. Further hindered by the fact that the company seemingly doesn’t get the idea of a goth chick. C’mon, [[Wrestling/VinceMcMahon Vince]]…I know you have to remember Wednesday on ''The Addams Family''! ([[Series/TheAddamsFamily The TV show]], that is. The movie would be far too recent for you to have seen, I’m sure.)
-->--'''''Website/{{Wrestlecrap}}''''', [[http://www.wrestlecrap.com/inductions/induction-vince-mcmahon-and-the-brass-rings-2014-gooker-award-co-winner/ Vince McMahon and the BRASS RINGS – 2014 Gooker Award Co-Winner"]]

->As a franchise, ''Star Trek'' dates back to the time when married couples could be seen [[SexIsEvil sleeping in separate beds]] on television...There were obvious sexual elements to characters like Nona from "A Private Little War", but those elements were never explicitly talked about -- and the subtext was often quite [[StrawFeminist alarmingly reactionary]]. The ''Star Trek'' franchise has never really updated its vocabulary when it comes to these matters. In first season episodes of ''[[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration The Next Generation]]'' -- like "Justice" – it often felt like the show was attempting to channel a decidedly [[GoGoEnslavement sixties sexuality]] that was out of place in the late eighties.
-->--'''[[http://them0vieblog.com/2015/04/07/star-trek-enterprise-a-night-in-sickbay-review/ Darren Mooney]]''' on ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'', "A Night in Sickbay"

->As a franchise, ''Star Trek'' dates back to the time when married couples could be seen [[SexIsEvil sleeping in separate beds]] on television...There were obvious sexual elements to characters like Nona from "A Private Little War", but those elements were never explicitly talked about -- and the subtext was often quite [[StrawFeminist alarmingly reactionary]]. The ''Star Trek'' franchise has never really updated its vocabulary when it comes to these matters. In first season episodes of ''[[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration The Next Generation]]'' -- like "Justice" – it often felt like the show was attempting to channel a decidedly sixties sexuality that was out of place in the late eighties.

->Casting off the traditional, ship-flyby open used by all previous ''Star Trek'' incarnations, ''[[Series/StarTrekEnterprise Enterprise]]'' created a visual history lesson which rocketed through the history of human exploration. Then it ruined that otherwise exciting visual feast by setting it to an awkward song about faith sung by a Rod Stewart knockoff, presumably because nothing says exploration and adventure like elevator rock. Later when they realized everyone hated it, they tried to fix it by speeding up the tempo. Like setting a Music/MichaelBolton song to a Bossanova beat cranked out of a Casio, this made something bad even worse.
-->--'''[[http://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/scifi/enterprise-failed-star-trek.html Josh Tyler]]'''

->''"Aww, isn’t that cute, Mr. Dithers #gets #hashtags now! Unfortunately, the ''Blondie'' creative team doesn’t really #get that Twitter is not a [[CriticalResearchFailure texting or instant messaging service.]]"''

->''"Storywise, the fact that Vamp and Naomi Hunter both use [[ProductPlacement some failhard Japan-only cellphone]] is downright silly, considering that the setting is supposed to be years into {{the future}}, and both of them are on the cutting edge of technology research. Are we supposed to believe that average people are 'loading up on [[{{Nanomachines}} nanos]]' to control their constipation, while super-secret agents of the most elite operation in the world are using a piece of shit like that to talk to each other? It would be more believable if they were using telepathy!"''

->''"Nazis – whether [[ThoseWackyNazis literal]] or [[ANaziByAnyOtherName allegorical]] – seem to turn up with great frequency on the show. There are quite a few analogies made to the holocaust over the course of the show’s run. Two of the episodes from the show’s first season – including this one – deal with the legacy of splitting the atom. There’s a decidedly retro vibe to ''Voyager''[=‘=]s allegories and commentaries...It lends the whole adventure the feel of a throwback, as if ''Voyager'' is still writing for the politics of the sixties. (The costume design on the episode’s aliens doesn’t help – anti-nuclear protesters clad in [[NewAgeRetroHippie goofy-looking primary colours.]])"''

->''"[=Marlene McFly=] is a fashion and hair icon of 2015! Throw out all of your clothes and make an appointment at the [=JCPenney=] hair salon, because 2015 is all about skirts that look like deflated mylar balloons...I wonder what drugs BTTF P2 predicted we’d be doing in 2015, because Marlene McFly [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs is on some new shit."''
-->--'''[[http://dlisted.com/2015/01/01/hot-slut-of-the-day-517/ Michael K.]]''' on ''Film/BackToTheFuture II''

->''"Aww, isn’t that cute, Mr. Dithers #gets #hashtags now! Unfortunately, the ''Blondie'' creative team doesn’t really #get that Twitter is not a [[TwoDecadesBehind texting or instant messaging service.]]"''

->''"''Star Trek'' has always prided itself on engaging with important and vital social issues, and ''Voyager'' would have its share of episodes offering incisive commentary on moral issues. What is fascinating about ''Voyager'', though, is the way that the show’s moral compass seems to be anchored in the wake of the Second World War. Nazis – whether [[ThoseWackyNazis literal]] or [[ANaziByAnyOtherName allegorical]] – seem to turn up with great frequency on the show. There are quite a few analogies made to the holocaust over the course of the show’s run. Two of the episodes from the show’s first season – including this one – deal with the legacy of splitting the atom. There’s a decidedly retro vibe to ''Voyager''[=‘=]s allegories and commentaries...Jeri Taylor recalls, 'The original pitch was what if you were in Dresden twenty-four hours before the fire bombing and knew it was coming? What would you do?' It lends the whole adventure the feel of a throwback, as if ''Voyager'' is still writing for the politics of [[TheSixties the sixties]]. (The costume design on the episode’s aliens doesn’t help – anti-nuclear protesters clad in [[NewAgeRetroHippie goofy-looking primary colours.]])"''

->''"Storywise, the fact that Vamp and Naomi Hunter both use [[ProductPlacement some failhard Japan-only cellphone]] is downright silly, considering that the setting is supposed to be years into {{the future}}, and both of them are on the cutting edge of technology research. Are we supposed to believe that average people are 'loading up on [[{{Nanomachines}} nanos]]' to control their constipation, while super-secret agents of the most elite operation in the world are using a piece of shit like that to talk to each other? It would be more believable if they were using telepathy!"''\\
--'''Terry Wolf''', [[http://www.metagearsolid.org/reports_mgs4_soldout_9.html "Metal Gear Soldout"]]

->''"''Star Trek'' has always prided itself on engaging with important and vital social issues, and ''Voyager'' would have its share of episodes offering incisive commentary on moral issues. What is fascinating about ''Voyager'', though, is the way that the show’s moral compass seems to be anchored in the wake of the Second World War. Nazis – whether [[ThoseWackyNazis literal]] or [[ANaziByAnyOtherName allegorical]] – seem to turn up with great frequency on the show. There are quite a few analogies made to the holocaust over the course of the show’s run. Two of the episodes from the show’s first season – including this one – deal with the legacy of splitting the atom. There’s a decidedly retro vibe to ''Voyager''[=‘=]s allegories and commentaries...Jeri Taylor recalls, 'The original pitch was what if you were in Dresden twenty-four hours before the fire bombing and knew it was coming? What would you do?' It lends the whole adventure the feel of a throwback, as if ''Voyager'' is still writing for the politics of [[TheSixties the sixties]]. (The costume design on the episode’s aliens doesn’t help – anti-nuclear protesters clad in [[NewAgeRetroHippie goofy-looking primary colours.]])"''\\
--'''Darren Mooney''' [[http://them0vieblog.com/2014/09/19/star-trek-voyager-time-and-again-review/ on]] ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'', "Time and Again"

->''"Storywise, the fact that Vamp and Naomi Hunter both use [[ProductPlacement some failhard Japan-only cellphone]] is downright silly, considering that the setting is supposed to be years the future, and both of them are on the cutting edge of technology research. Are we supposed to believe that average people are 'loading up on [[{{Nanomachines}} nanos]]' to control their constipation, while super-secret agents of the most elite operation in the world are using a piece of shit like that to talk to each other? It would be more believable if they were using telepathy!"''\\