I love rewatching older vids with thoughtful, well-informed hindsight (like in some of the VVC history panels, although we never have yet taken the time to drill down quite so specifically to one narrower time period!). It's true, as you say, that we can see the seeds of future aesthetic/technological developments (or see potential developments that never quite caught on?), even (or maybe especially) in vids that at the time felt jarring or were grasping for something they couldn't quite get a handle on.
I don't remember that Starsky & Hutch vid; I'd be interested to rewatch it. I'm curious about whether the use of audio was a mistake or a failed experiment. I was going to say "a mostly-failed experiment", but actually, in the end, I think if your audience can't tell if you're making a mistake or performing an experiment, you have failed insofar as you are leaving your audience too far out to sea (if it's so likely that the audience's first thought will be 'mistake', you're not helping them actually lay their hands on the experiment and giving them the chance to figure out how to experience it on its own merits, so everybody loses).
I think it might have been a bigger fandom if it had aired in the last few years.
Gah! I think so too! It breaks my heart, when I can look back and see shows/characters who seem juuuust a bit too far ahead of their time. These days, Witchblade would fit right in with the TV landscape, and Pez is such a fantastic character.
(The issue makes me think of shows like Good vs. Evil/G vs. E, for instance, which would fit in a lot better today... and even shows like Peacemakers. Granted, westerns seem to have a hard row to hoe on modern US TV in any case, but the idea of a made-for-cable show having a long potential lifespan and existing comfortably in among the network shows, that wasn't really rolling yet when they tried Peacemakers. But now it's taken for granted.)
I don't remember the discussion about the choices in Possession also being the result of technological limitations--I'd be interested to hear more about that, if anyone remembers! I recall watching that vid for the first time, and initially being a bit too much "...what's the deal with the LAMP OF LONELINESS :-/ " , but I did eventually learn how to watch it, if you know what I mean--like looking at any piece of art, really, and figuring out how to flex my perceptions or let myself relax into what the art itself is saying/doing, instead of me trying/failing to cram my pre-existing filters over it.
In conclusion... I love the use of internal motion in vids. No offense to cutting or other transitional devices! But but but {{{internal motionnnnnn}}}. ♥
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I don't remember that Starsky & Hutch vid; I'd be interested to rewatch it. I'm curious about whether the use of audio was a mistake or a failed experiment. I was going to say "a mostly-failed experiment", but actually, in the end, I think if your audience can't tell if you're making a mistake or performing an experiment, you have failed insofar as you are leaving your audience too far out to sea (if it's so likely that the audience's first thought will be 'mistake', you're not helping them actually lay their hands on the experiment and giving them the chance to figure out how to experience it on its own merits, so everybody loses).
I think it might have been a bigger fandom if it had aired in the last few years.
Gah! I think so too! It breaks my heart, when I can look back and see shows/characters who seem juuuust a bit too far ahead of their time. These days, Witchblade would fit right in with the TV landscape, and Pez is such a fantastic character.
(The issue makes me think of shows like Good vs. Evil/G vs. E, for instance, which would fit in a lot better today... and even shows like Peacemakers. Granted, westerns seem to have a hard row to hoe on modern US TV in any case, but the idea of a made-for-cable show having a long potential lifespan and existing comfortably in among the network shows, that wasn't really rolling yet when they tried Peacemakers. But now it's taken for granted.)
I don't remember the discussion about the choices in Possession also being the result of technological limitations--I'd be interested to hear more about that, if anyone remembers! I recall watching that vid for the first time, and initially being a bit too much "...what's the deal with the LAMP OF LONELINESS :-/ " , but I did eventually learn how to watch it, if you know what I mean--like looking at any piece of art, really, and figuring out how to flex my perceptions or let myself relax into what the art itself is saying/doing, instead of me trying/failing to cram my pre-existing filters over it.
In conclusion... I love the use of internal motion in vids. No offense to cutting or other transitional devices! But but but {{{internal motionnnnnn}}}. ♥