This New Year’s Eve my family watched a Twilight Zone marathon, and watching this television show of another generation seemed a perfect example of how people's demands in entertainment have changed in recent years. These days we all look for colorful special effects, and realistic costumes and such, so it seems preposterous that people could be satisfied with the portrayal of aliens using humans with simple antennas coming out of their ears, or for some random box to have the ability to reveal the future. It seems ridiculous that people could be so easily entertained, yet what I feel stands out even more it how the plots have changed since then. These days almost any successful television show has twists and turns, keeping the plot hidden and unknown. However, thus far these plots have been rather simple and ordinary. I can easily ascertain what will happen next in the story. As entertainment standards grow, older shows become humorous, as the plots and technology seem so simple and lack the complexity we look for in today’s entertainment. So I am left to wonder what our future holds for entertainment, and what technological advances will leave our current entertainment seeming pathetic and uninteresting.
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