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Cannot Believe It Has Been 10 Years Since Pan Am Debuted

posted 4 years ago by FeeCJ (129)
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Title says it all. Seems unreal that it's been a decade.

I was going through some DVDs the other day and ran across my copy of the Pan Am boxed set.

Wow. Looked it up, and it appears to have debuted in September 2011.

We were pretty active on this site at the time, and that also simply is mind blowing that we really had a lot of traffic here. Many fans domestic and international--no pun intended.

Just saw a couple of messages I wrote 7 years ago or more and it seems like yesterday, really.

Has anybody been tempted to do a 10 year anniversary viewing?

Fasten your seatbelts travellers! ha!

[–] diezman (2097) 4 years ago

Wow! 10 years!

Never watched Pan Am but I remember seeing the promos on TV.

Didn't seem that long ago. Now I really feel old knowing that 10 years have passed since seeing the promos.

The older I get it seems that time moves more quickly.

[–] FeeCJ (129) 4 years ago

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[–] PrimeMinisterX (8711) 4 years ago

Edgier like what?

Sometimes I think shows today always trying to be "edgy" is a negative, not a positive.

[–] FeeCJ (129) 4 years ago

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[–] Galactus03 (4373) 4 years ago

Our perceptions of time changes as we get older. When you are say ten years old. You only know what 10 years feels like and it felt slow because you had no frame of reference. . From 10 to 20 feels a bit quicker because you now know what it felt like. 20-40 feels quicker as well and so forth.

Another way to think of it is....if you have ever taken a.long trip somewhere that you have never been. It feels so long getting there. But the way back always feels a bit shorter. It's because you experience the trip once and know what to expect.

Wish I could say our perceptions slow as we age but it gets worse. When i turned 40 I was 50 in a few years. 😂...
my days continue to feel shorter and shorter as well. Unless I'm doing something unpleasant that I never have done before the days are not slowing down....mentally anyways...

[–] PrimeMinisterX (8711) 4 years ago

I've started this series two or three times but never have managed to get more than three or fours episodes into it. However, I like the concept and cast, and its a lavish production, so I would like to finish it eventually.

Even though I wasn't totally hooked, I'm surprised it wasn't more of a hit when it aired. It's certainly much, much better than the usual cookie-cutter dreck you find on network TV.

[–] BourbonKing (5777) 4 years ago

JFC, I saw this trending and it made me think "yeah, I remember this short-lived series around 5 years ago" and then I look it up and see that it was even older. AAAAAH

[–] FeeCJ (129) 4 years ago

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[–] Lily Magnum (264) 4 years ago

It was a pretty good show. I loved the setting and style.

[–] BourbonKing (5777) 4 years ago

Thinking back I remember it being compared to Mad Men and it definitely strived to recapture the era and temperament towards the female workforce at the time, but instead of the lead being a male it was Christina Ricci's character. I thought it was a good show but IIRC this suffered from the writer's strike or did the American audiences not give it chance to succeed?

[–] Lily Magnum (264) 4 years ago

The strike was a few years before Pan Am. Ratings were the reason for cancellation; the show suffered a huge loss in viewers after the premiere.

[–] BourbonKing (5777) 4 years ago

So basically, ABC TV was the wrong venue. AMC would probably have a better shot but then they'd have to foot the production bill. HBO or Showtime would have been a better venue.

[–] Lily Magnum (264) 4 years ago

That's exactly what Christina Ricci said!

[–] TandyMan (11096) 4 years ago

Watched it a year or two ago. It's a really good show. I remember being surprised cause it's kind of this spy show when it was marketed as just, hey, look how fly the swinging 60s was.

[–] TheArgentinian (7070) 4 years ago

This show was so hyped up before the premiere. It was supposed to be the new Mad Men.