watching old television series that you loved as a kid, with the eyes of an adult, makes you realize that television always sucked. but it seemed so much more magical back when. for christmas my family gave me the first season of wonder woman and the second season of charlies angels on dvd. some of my favorite shows. but watching them now, i realize just how bad they are. good-bad, but still bad. plots don't make sense, it's all about near-naked women for men to leer at, lame jokes, and so forth. well, yeah, i kinda knew that. but then, trying telling that to an under-10yo gay boy who's fallen in love with the idea that women can take on bad men who are doing bad things and being jerks. that's inspiring to a little gay boy who's struggling to figure out how to fit in a masculine culture. so i'm glad to experience these shows again with the magic of dvd, but the magic of the shows themselves lives more in my childhood memories than in the reality of life. but, you know, that's perfectly fine.