Its funny how much I rely now on the Internet. It used to be that if I had a question that was instigated by something I saw on TV I ran over to the book shelf and tore open the proper Encyclopedic volume. Now when we watch TV the Internet is always a mouse point away from an answer. And we are constantly surfing to settle debates. SyFy (excuse me while I die a little) ran the single season of Green Hornet the other day.
He tried to tell me it was the original. I told him if was in color it was not the original. He said it looked like it cause the cars were old and the guy looked like all those 1960s hunks. Well it isn't. He says it is from the same time as Batman. I told him that wasn't the original Batman either. So we had to Google it to settle the argument.
My mother is Moses' 2nd cousin 4 times removed, old enough to remember everything. She used to watch the Batman and other comic serials right along with Tom Mixx and Hopalong Cassidy. And when we were kids we watched Matinee at the Bijou with her. It was a PBS show that brought back the "timeless classics" in a Robert Osborn/TCM format for 1.5 hourse every day.
I don't really relish being right all the time because I have enough prescience to know how annoying it is for others. But I do find it entertaining that apparently this is how geeks watch TV.
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