For me, its Xena.

Few years back, height of covid epidemic, was living in homeless shelters. Overcrowded slums, everyone miserable, yelling, screaming, fights, abuse, rage. At one point, could feel the anger building in me. Powerless, a victim, desire for retribution. What good was trying to be better person, when all it meant was people walking over me.

Started rewatching xena, hadn’t in years. Big message of the show: when surrounded by hate, violence, it’s tempting to give in, to not be a victim. But you have a choice, to not continue the cycle, to make a better world. I so needed to hear that message at that time in my life.

What tv show helped you?

  • PaupersSerenade@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    152·
    8 months ago

    Babylon 5! I was born in 94, when it premiered and have always watched it (along with Star Trek). It was one of the first shows that really pushed the continuous plot over serialized and it makes rewatches a game of finding the hints.

    I’ve said before that Babylon 5 is the more realistic depiction of if we had made contact with aliens over star trek (at least the early ones), but the heros are still that.

    • PaupersSerenade@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      31·
      8 months ago

      I am curious where the down votes came from. I hope no one thought I was disparaging Star Trek. I love em both, they’re just different.

    • KevonLooney@lemm.ee
      25·
      8 months ago

      Babylon 5! I was born in 94, … It was one of the first shows that really pushed the continuous plot over serialized

      Uhh… no. Dallas and other soap operas had long and convoluted plots decades before. One entire season was just a dream!

      It’s pretty obvious that you’re under 30.

      • PaupersSerenade@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        32·
        8 months ago

        That and I don’t watch soap operas other than S.O.A.P. It’s a very different genre, but it has been called an opera in space before, so you’ve got that haha

        Edit; I also has said ‘one of the first’ so non definitive. I just meant in terms of ‘prime-time television’. It seems like people didn’t like that.