>>I'll ask my wife, she has many of the old, old series. I only started watching during the "new" edition that started 10 years ago.
Your wife watches old Dr Who?! Cool. ;-)
>>Then again, my daughter also thinks that Ultraman from the 60's is "silly" (I showed her an episode)
Kids these days are used to absolute realism. I look back to Space 1999 and more than once you can see visors flapping up and down as people lope across the lunar landscape. I'm also reminded of this gem:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9tBFBULj90 (imagine making a movie like that today ;-) )
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
