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To: Rambi who wrote (65958)	11/29/2004 9:24:56 AM
From: Mac Con Ulaidh	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 71178

I was trying to come with a show, and was thinking of the one set in Alaska. What was that? The Waltons hits much more. But even when it was showing, it went back to something lost, or about to be lost. My friends and I all watched it but it was a story of an age we just dreamed about. The stranger girl who came to visit was partly fasinated with having a southern experience. I sure don't think the stories failed us, and maybe we didn't fail them. Maybe it's just not possible to live up to them as things change. I have the same feeling about SF when I read Chandler, and then the Beat poets. That SF doesn't exist anymore. The city has overwhemled those days.

To: Rambi who wrote (65958)	11/29/2004 9:34:38 AM
From: Crocodile	Respond to of 71178

The Beachcomber's popularity reminded me of The Waltons here in the US that ran for 10 or more years about a closeknit family in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Interesting, well- developed characters facing real crises and dealing with real emotions. A close-knit community. Yes, interesting about the Waltons. Mr. Croc and I discussed it as a possible U.S. "story", at least one that kind of worked for awhile. But then there were other stories such as "Dallas" and similar series that were about getting rich, being rich, and staying rich. Power, money, celebrity, etc... A little odd how the Waltons were supplanted by the Ewings - a thoroughly unlikable spawn. eeekk!!! (o: From what CW and Ammo tell me, there are a lot of young people who are very disconnected. They are far from their original communities, if they ever belonged to one. Their parents are often divorced. The religion of their parents often doesn't speak to them in a logical or even spiritual way. The world for them has the same unstable, temporary feel that ours had in the 60s. I'd even say it has an even more unstable feel now. I think that most people still had some connection to place -- to nature -- cottages, family farms, camping trips, and so on. I think that is being lost so rapidly now that humans are like little satellites drifting around in space. One thing that I find interesting is how even the most disconnected do seem to begin to reconnect when they're in a quiet place in nature. Not always, but often. I see this when working with kids on outdoor projects such as river surveys (you know I've mentioned this in the past). They arrive at a site, often sort of snooty and obnoxious and not wanting to get their shoes wet, or shrieking at the site of a spider, but by the end of 2 or 3 hours, they're soaking wet and are handling frogs and crayfish like experts -- and have quietened down and will sit with you on a river bank looking through field guides and start talking about their grandparents' cottages and such. It's really quite fascinating to see this happen in the space of a few hours. Makes me think that there can still be hope for young people, if they can find ways to reconnect... -croc