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harriet_m_welsh

The Big Death

Jun 27, 2009 21:42

Alex and I love to watch this awful TV show on DVD, called Jeremiah. (Bill hates it.) It's so awful, it's excellent. A virus, called The Big Death, kills everyone on earth over the age of puberty. The show takes place 15 years later, and chronicles the story of Jeremiah and his role in recivilization. Jeremiah, unbelievingly, is played by a 37 ( Read more... )

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litch June 28 2009, 10:07:45 UTC

I thought the first season of Jeremiah was pretty good (And you totally forgot about malcom jemal warner), the second season went down hill

harriet_m_welsh June 28 2009, 15:31:23 UTC

Actually, Alex and I both think that Malcolm Jamal Warner is brilliant in the show and not worthy of our ridicule! ;)

We're about 1/2 way through the second season...

tinywarrior June 28 2009, 12:36:36 UTC

When I first moved to Los Angeles, one of the the things that struck me the hardest was how quickly a person could become anonymous. I'd known a man who was dragged around all the infamously seedy L.A. motels as a child by his drunken father. I had never imagined that there were people who simply disappeared--somebodies that literally became nobodies.

Looking back now, over a decade later, I realize that what probably bothered me most was more subtle. It wasn't so much that I moved about a city filled with so many people who had become invisible, but that I was also invisible to them. It was the total lack of connection that struck me. It showed me what a hard place the world could be and how people really could be made to feel insignificant by circumstance.

harriet_m_welsh June 28 2009, 15:34:09 UTC

You don't think that could happen anywhere?

You have a good point that here in my small town I am much more connected to the community than I ever was anywhere in San Diego, but every day I see marginalized people and wonder where they go at night, who they go home to, and what happens to their life story when it ends.

tinywarrior June 28 2009, 17:06:08 UTC

Oh, I definitely think it can happen anywhere and does...probably more and more. Even before I moved to L.A., I'd had a little exposure with people who moved through their lives with very few others noticing them. It wasn't until I moved to a city where the strictly homeless population (not even counting the transient poor) was greater than any place I'd ever lived that it hit me as to the magnitude it all.