I Love Lucy

Old TV is incredible. I Love Lucy, Get Smart, Dick Van Dyke, I Dream of Jeannie, Bewitched. These shows have such great characters, premises, plots, and dialogue. Don't get me wrong, I love TV today too, but for the most part it seems that TV today is moving more towards serial drama's than sitcoms. I am quite thankful for that as Lost, Heroes, and Chuck are my favorite shows right now. Not to mention sitcoms have been pretty lacking the past few years, asides from maybe My Name is Earl. I guess the 90's was really the last time they had any sort of staying power. With Home Improvement, Rosanne, Seinfeld, etc. Just like everything else in this world TV goes through ebbs and flows. Sitcoms will come back, but I don't think they will ever be as endearing as they were 50 years ago in their heyday. I guess all kinds of media can be considered at their best form at the beginning. Video games for instance may be much more graphically exciting today, but does that mean the stories and characters are better? Music may be a little more polished and produced today, but nothing will ever compare to the Beatles or Run DMC. Older media, original media, will always be what we look back at for ideas, for inspiration and for pure entertainment.