Television is a newer concept but it has changed the way our world works so much. It has not existed the same way as it has forever. I am surprised one format has not managed to stay around as long as I would have thought. The live action drama movies have died. From the concept I would have thought it would have stuck around much longer than it did, it is almost like being at a play from your own home. Similar to a play there are no safety nets no second tries everything is live. There is something to that that makes it seem like it would have stuck around longer to me.

With the chapter on Rushkoff it is hard to believe how hard it was to get the science fiction off of the ground as well. Our best selling movies now or highest rated shows are often times not the ones based in reality but the ones that are not realistic but fantasy. Rod Serling was a writer who had to really push the envelope, he can almost be credited as the father of these new fascination with the supernatural, being the first author to ignore his directors to write what he wanted to. This is not anything that would be unbelievable to write about now. If we look at the most popular shows, other then the news we will see them as purely fantasy, superheroes, zombies or the supernatural. From my understanding this never would have passed as acceptable in the time he was alive. He was a true innovator for his field in  his time. 

If I had to define the 70’s up in a single word from the documentary we watched in class it would be spin off. In the documentary by CNN time over time we saw how more of the most popular shows come to flourish. It was a spin off of a handful of characters from another show following their life apart from the show they originally appeared in. This is something that is less common now I feel like. Now spin off TV series are less likely to be popular with us now and often times fail in their first season on the air. Sitcoms are in general less popular than they have been in the past taking a turn to more of a fantasy or reality tv. The way things have changed, I feel like we will never come back to the way things used to be