Post by Boink on May 14, 2018 12:42:54 GMT -5
I have always had a strange fascination with movie and TV filming locations, similar to the way that places from my own past hold some sort of special significance. Maybe it's nothing more than simple sentimentality, but I always enjoy visiting these locations (whenever is convenient), and my happiness as I walk away is almost always proportional to how little time has changed them. Thoughts such as these enter my mind when change has occurred: Is nothing sacred? How dare the new owner (several owners removed, in fact) paint my childhood home yellow, or cut down the hedges Michael Myers hid behind in the original (1978) Halloween?
Like those examples of reality and fiction, Moonlighting was a part of my childhood, a show my parents, siblings, and I never missed, and though I could not be happier with my adult life, I suspect most of us occasionally wish that we could, even for just a moment, "go home again", if only to re-visit our younger years (and the people who inhabited them) through the lense of the wisdom we have hopefully acquired in the interim. Since time cruelly waits for no man (or woman, child, etc.), however, we can hope to find only the places and things from our pasts "living on" exactly as we remember them, as if this somehow also keeps the moments in which we experienced them alive beyond our fruitless, internal nostalgia.
With all this philosophical babbling in mind, I always appreciate it when a particular place or thing lends itself to remaining as I remember it... like the Eastern Columbia building, and the clock where David and Maddie found themselves dangling perilously at the end of their very first episode. An always possible natural disaster notwithstanding, it seems unlikely that humans will defile this landmark in my lifetime, allowing me to perhaps someday visit it in the hope of picking up some sort of residual energy that might still be lingering of two fictional characters I once knew and loved... and obviously haven't let go of.
With Bruce Willis, Cybill Shepherd, and the rest of the world having long since moved on, do you think there could somehow be an intangible trace and/or echo of a newly-acquainted David Addison and Maddie Hayes still up there near that clock? Or have the countless rotations of its hands over the last thirty-plus years erased whatever remnant of those moments might have been left behind in their wake? Or (most likely of all) am I the only one crazy enough to even contemplate such an idea about people who actually existed, let alone characters who did not?
Like those examples of reality and fiction, Moonlighting was a part of my childhood, a show my parents, siblings, and I never missed, and though I could not be happier with my adult life, I suspect most of us occasionally wish that we could, even for just a moment, "go home again", if only to re-visit our younger years (and the people who inhabited them) through the lense of the wisdom we have hopefully acquired in the interim. Since time cruelly waits for no man (or woman, child, etc.), however, we can hope to find only the places and things from our pasts "living on" exactly as we remember them, as if this somehow also keeps the moments in which we experienced them alive beyond our fruitless, internal nostalgia.
With all this philosophical babbling in mind, I always appreciate it when a particular place or thing lends itself to remaining as I remember it... like the Eastern Columbia building, and the clock where David and Maddie found themselves dangling perilously at the end of their very first episode. An always possible natural disaster notwithstanding, it seems unlikely that humans will defile this landmark in my lifetime, allowing me to perhaps someday visit it in the hope of picking up some sort of residual energy that might still be lingering of two fictional characters I once knew and loved... and obviously haven't let go of.
With Bruce Willis, Cybill Shepherd, and the rest of the world having long since moved on, do you think there could somehow be an intangible trace and/or echo of a newly-acquainted David Addison and Maddie Hayes still up there near that clock? Or have the countless rotations of its hands over the last thirty-plus years erased whatever remnant of those moments might have been left behind in their wake? Or (most likely of all) am I the only one crazy enough to even contemplate such an idea about people who actually existed, let alone characters who did not?
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