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Current Talk '08 I / Re: Dark Shadows: Why Such a Huge Gay Following?
« on: February 03, 2008, 08:35:33 PM »
I think the sets and production values were great considering their workload.
Anyway, well said, and you could broaden that out to severely alienated people of all kinds. Now, people of subsequent generations get the impression that the 1960s was dominated by hippies and war protests and drugs and psychadelic music, but that was all an underground "fringe" thing, formed by a lot of kids who grew up isolated in flat, empty, conformist suburbia, a culture that could be brutal, behind closed doors, in how it tried to enforce that conformity on their kids.
The Barnabas story was very affecting for these people, too. It's too bad the counter-culture didn't connect with gays more than it did back then.
Anyway, well said, and you could broaden that out to severely alienated people of all kinds. Now, people of subsequent generations get the impression that the 1960s was dominated by hippies and war protests and drugs and psychadelic music, but that was all an underground "fringe" thing, formed by a lot of kids who grew up isolated in flat, empty, conformist suburbia, a culture that could be brutal, behind closed doors, in how it tried to enforce that conformity on their kids.
The Barnabas story was very affecting for these people, too. It's too bad the counter-culture didn't connect with gays more than it did back then.