Friday, October 15, 2004
You know you're getting older when...
The next generation teenage soap opera rips on YOUR generation teenage soap opera.
Case in point. Last night I was watching this show called, "Life as We Know It," which from what I gather is about an improbably beautiful group of high schoolers trying to have sex with each other.
The Shy-but-Beautiful boy awkwardly asks the Bitchy-but-Beautiful girl and her friend where they are going to hang out.
"Where?" snaps BbB girl at SbB boy, her voice dripping with sarcasm, "The Peach Pit!"
Ooh! That is a low blow to the zipcode that sired the essentially infinite genre of "Dawson's Creek," "One Tree Hill," "The OC," etc. (Though we have to give props to Degrassi which I believe was the original inspiration for Walshes and company.)
I thought, now this could be cool, in a Screamesque, self-satire, bite the hand that feeds you, way. So I made a concerted effort to watch the show, but, alas, I could not get through 15 minutes. I couldn't quite put my finger on it, but the show just didn't work. I was bored. And I am not easily bored. I must admit, the 90210 is wine and cheesy, but at least it is watchable. It's syndicated for crying out loud.
So I must conclude, that the Peach Pit remark was not meant to be a clever allusion, but a rallying cry for teens and tweens who want to distance their culture themselves from twentysomethings culture. "Yeah," they say, "The Peach Pit and 90210 is so OVER! It was their time, but it's out time right now. Right now, it's our time!" And they probably feel the same way about the Goonies.
I am reminded of my roommate who once asked me, "You like 80's music don't you." Yes, I do. First of all, it rocks, second of all, how can you dislike an entire DECADE? So you're sayind every song produced between 1979 and 1990 sucked, even Madonna? Ha! I would have her stumped by playing the Madonna card. "Oh," she said, not without condescension, "You like Madonna don't you."
Well how can you argue with that? Except to say, he who knows only his generation remains always a child. San Dimas Football RULES!!!
The next generation teenage soap opera rips on YOUR generation teenage soap opera.
Case in point. Last night I was watching this show called, "Life as We Know It," which from what I gather is about an improbably beautiful group of high schoolers trying to have sex with each other.
The Shy-but-Beautiful boy awkwardly asks the Bitchy-but-Beautiful girl and her friend where they are going to hang out.
"Where?" snaps BbB girl at SbB boy, her voice dripping with sarcasm, "The Peach Pit!"
Ooh! That is a low blow to the zipcode that sired the essentially infinite genre of "Dawson's Creek," "One Tree Hill," "The OC," etc. (Though we have to give props to Degrassi which I believe was the original inspiration for Walshes and company.)
I thought, now this could be cool, in a Screamesque, self-satire, bite the hand that feeds you, way. So I made a concerted effort to watch the show, but, alas, I could not get through 15 minutes. I couldn't quite put my finger on it, but the show just didn't work. I was bored. And I am not easily bored. I must admit, the 90210 is wine and cheesy, but at least it is watchable. It's syndicated for crying out loud.
So I must conclude, that the Peach Pit remark was not meant to be a clever allusion, but a rallying cry for teens and tweens who want to distance their culture themselves from twentysomethings culture. "Yeah," they say, "The Peach Pit and 90210 is so OVER! It was their time, but it's out time right now. Right now, it's our time!" And they probably feel the same way about the Goonies.
I am reminded of my roommate who once asked me, "You like 80's music don't you." Yes, I do. First of all, it rocks, second of all, how can you dislike an entire DECADE? So you're sayind every song produced between 1979 and 1990 sucked, even Madonna? Ha! I would have her stumped by playing the Madonna card. "Oh," she said, not without condescension, "You like Madonna don't you."
Well how can you argue with that? Except to say, he who knows only his generation remains always a child. San Dimas Football RULES!!!
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