Griff's Comments

>I think that's where many TV/Films go wrong today; >they do not allow much
>room for ones mind to fill in gaps/speculate, they all >seem intent on
>detail/playing out every single last action... it makes one >purely an
>observer rather a 'potential' participant. The movie >people think that
>making merchandise is the way into viewer participation, >but they are wrong,
>and merely further alienate the audience even further.

>Children really believe their fantasies/games, and >generally live in a
>mixture of reality and their mind. UFO (and indeed most >Gerry Anderson
>production) were/are a great canvas to create mind->games/what-if's... well,
>at least when I was a lad ;)

>Oh well... better get on with things...

>Best to all... Griff


How true that all is Griff.
Classic Movies and TV (of which UFO is part) dealt with surfaces of reality.There was a kind of a magic veil drapped over these surfaces.This feel played on the imagination and nothing was more/is more fertile than the imagination of a child.
Today as you say nothing is left to imagine, to make up, to fill in.Everything must be real,all detail is sketched in.The digital age has given us the opportunity to re-visit our youth ,but unfortunately it has also turned Cinema and television into a sterile enviornment where the ability to show and do everything has dis-engaged our imaginative drive.
Its still there it just needs us to perhaps realise how much of an important element it actually is.Its a sad reflection on what people seem to regard as entertainment today.

Or perhaps we are just overloaded.Every week more films ,more TV ,more Dvd,s.We are simply exhausted of the overwhelming choice.Thirty years ago going to the cinema or waiting week by week for your favourite show built up expectation and excitment.In between times imaginations would fill in the yearning gaps of inactivity.
This would subside after the event and then start to build again.Now we,ve grown accustomed to not having to wait.We have to generate our own internal responses if we our going to relive the way it used to be.Maybe it was our youth that co-incided with the times or maybe we're right.It might just be that in order for the primary entertainment of TV and Cinema to re-affirm itself it has to re-learn what its lost.That is to take into account the powerful force of human imagination.

Mark UK



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