Will future generations "get" this series at all?
Or will it just be for them a dated mess?
shareMaybe both i don't think it will get as dated as Wait Til Your Father Gets Home or Scoobie Doo, thanks to the sci-fi.
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It really touches on timeless family and social issues without much focus on pop culture humor. It will probably be ok. The Flintstones held up really well. The "rock" puns got old though.
shareThe problem is there hasn't been a TV show yet that has held up. If "Rick and Morty," in fifty years, is still watched, it will be a first.
shareSure,but TV hasn't been a mainstay in people's homes fir much longer than 50 years, so it's hard to say. And 50 years is multiple generations. I remember how big the 70s we're in the 90s, and 80s are hot right now, so it seems every 20-30 years things come back around.
shareThe '70s got big in the '90s because of nostalgia. I'm sure "Rick and Morty," in twenty years, will ride the wave of nostalgia too. And then, like every show before it, it will disappear ... unless, as I said before, it exhibits what no TV show thus far has exhibited: staying power.
shareI'm not disagreeing, but I guess I see staying power differently. You can't expect much of anything to stay relevant for ever without lapses of interest. But 20 years to me is considered staying power. Seinfeld comes to mind. I can see a show hanging on until the generation.
share"Seinfeld"'s laugh track (it might have been a live audience but it feels as organic as a laugh track), IMHO, has made it a lot less fun to watch. Same goes for "Friends." I think in another 20 years, once the nostalgia has worn off, these two might be gone. But, you're right: a show that's still around after 20 years has staying power. I'm just waiting for that TV show not chiefly still around because of nostalgia.
shareHBO's Dune miniseries still holds up, in my opinion, inspite of the dated effects. That counts as a TV show, doesn't it?
shareThere's looooads of pop culture references....
I use pop loosely though, some of it is just over-hyped garbage.
Is doctor who dated? This show is Doctor who but more down to earth and less sci-fi.
shareDated mess.
It's too reliant on pop cultural references.
I don't see a lot of pop culture references to the show when compared to say the Simpsons or Family guy. Instead this shows humor is more about the frail human conditiojn as well as other dark nehilistic humor. This type of stuff is ageless so future generations will understand it.
shareWell your question is unclear. In the title you ask if future gens will "get" it. Yeah, I think most of them will because most of the stuff in it is timeless. But then in one of your replies you bring up another issue, that it won't be watched or popular. Sure, as you say "there hasn't been a TV show yet that has held up". But it isn't because future generations can't get it, it's because it gets drowned in a mass of newer media. I'm sure many people will still watch this one even half a century from now, but naturally it will stop being popular long before.
shareprob not its not that good anyways...
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