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Unfortunatly a lot of people don't Care for stuff that was Made before they we're borne.
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concur:
my to do list is infinitely long, and I am only 4 years old. >

I'm guessing you were born in a leap year and you're actually a teenager? >

Here's the thing.  As the decades pass, movies and shows that were relevant to you and your generation will not be to the younger generations >

This is true, but we’ve really only had television exist for what… 100 years? That’s theoretically one lifetime. Where we are now is unprecedented. Maybe with how far we’ve advanced, they will remain relevant for a longer period of time? >

Assuming you're on the younger side, how many TV shows and movies from say the 70s, 80s, or even the 90s do you watch? >

Say there's about 20 movies standing the test of time from each decade, over time there will be more and more must-watch movies while not necessarily new and relevant are still incredibly entertaining >

Until they catch up with what the gaming industry is doing and start locking stuff behind server connections. >

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I have this issue with certain sports and entertainment, for some reason I'm obsessed with watching the entire history of the UFC for example. 
"No I can't watch this weekends event, I'm only at UFC 87, I'll catch up in half a decade don't worry." >

Right?? I’m just trying to get through the classics. Even watching shows like Friends that was a bit before my time takes.. weeks? Months? 
It’s overwhelming. At the same time, I guess it’s a fun journey to take?? >

I was the same too, OP. I invite you to take some introspection as to why you feel the need to do it. TV is entertainment, it should not feel like a chore. >

I made a mental note to not ”having” to watch anything anymore. What a relief. >

Somewhat off-topic, I read once that in ancient times it was possible for one person to learn the entire sum of the world's knowledge. >

I think the Codex Gigas was an attempt to store all of human knowledge in one book >

Why should they treat historical media as a backlog to get through? 
The vast majority of people don’t, and we’re not suffering for it >

Media constantly builds off itself. If you consume the older stuff, you catch a lot of references in derivative media that would have gone over your head otherwise >

That’s true, but it’s also true that if a certain piece of media can’t be enjoyed without consuming other media first (without being like, an actual sequel) it’s just not good. 
Whatever you get from watching the older stuff can be a bonus, but I can’t blame anyone for being fine with the basic experience without it. >

Suppose you just want to understand the history of the evolution of entertainment media in detail.
I mean I suppose that requires being selective, sometimes skipping the actual media and just reading a synopsis, and even then sampling media at various points in history given how much time it would take to try to watch and read everything. >

Could be. But it doesn’t match my experience of academia. Studying the history of communication, we more or less skipped over everything in history except the major developments in communication (development of writing, development of the printing press, development of tv, etc), none of which required us to study anything created with those developments. 
I think the farther away from the contemporary era, the less important it’s going to be to “catch up” on any given genre of media (much less all of media!). People will study about the same number of actual examples as we do now, we’ll just study meta-analysis texts that cover the broad trends of the medium, with less and less detail the farther back it goes… like we do now >

See? Thats the problem with the Movieindustry. Instead of creating masterpieces that can stand on their own, they make the 6th sequel. So when my little nugger wants to see John Wick 99 - the last chapter, he will have to watch 98 other movies to get whats going on. Everything has to be a franchise nowadays. I hate it >

Luckily the industry has gone shit lately, so they are not missing much. >

Regarding movies, there are very many old ones that are simply unwatchable. >

True, but that’s (probably) not the case with anything from 2010+. 
Then again, you watch Shrek recently? Animation has come a long way lol. >

Speak for yourself ... There is a reason my ass is as flat as a pancake 😂