I really like the interactions between Edward & his aunt, & Edward & Shay, those feel raw & real. Imo the show should spend way more time with the Edward storylines vs the side stories. Some of the side plots are ok, but some are just so cliched & cheesy, overall they are just filler. I'm still watching it, but I think there's a lot of wasted potential, it could've been a truly great show if it just focused on Edward. Then, aside from him 'talking' to his brother, he could have similar dialogues with the memory his parents as well, and maybe even with the aunt & her deceased sister. Idk, on the more positive side, the opening song fits perfectly & the kid actor who plays Edward is very talented.

Idk, there were some ok moments, but overall it was just awkward. Thankfully it didn't get too off the rails, but it was teetering on the edge. To be fair, I haven't watched a ton of his interviews, so maybe this is how he always acts, it just stood out to me as a regular Graham Norton viewer. I agree, I get really uncomfortable when the guests get too touchy feely with people they've just met. Funnily enough, Evangeline Lilly recently did just that to Danny Dyer in a chat show, touching his ear. It's so not cool.

He was just on the Graham Norton Show last week & appeared to be fairly drunk, it was pretty cringey to watch unfortunately. Had been looking forward to seeing him on Graham, so it was kind of a let down. Maybe he was nervous to be on the show & needed liquid courage or something.

Your random unsourced comment doesn't mean anything to me. Either way, you've missed the entire point of the post.

I just find this wholescale erasure of so many unique individuals into a vast cosmic nothingness to be a bit sad.

did you just dunk on yourself? lol

That's not true at all, that's possibly the amount of generations since the dawn of human civilization, but humans existed before civilization.

That sounds really fun. I guess I feel a bit too private to do something like that online, but it might be a cool project for offline.

It's basically irrelevant though. You focused on a minute detail that you could feel right about vs the actual meaning of the post.

So many redditor pedants missing the actual point of this post. Also, if you look it up, there's been at least 10,000 generations of humans.

Hm, maybe I will check it out.

>It sounds cliche, but thinking about how many people have lived full lives, struggled, fallen in love, fought desperately for something they cared about only to inevitably die and quickly fade away as if none it mattered in the slightest, it's very humbling; somehow its also so freeing.

maybe it's cliche, but the way you expressed it was quite nice.

Maybe the repetition is nature keeping some sort of equilibrium.

Idk if you ever go to antique or secondhand stores, but there will often be photographs or even paintings of people who are long gone. That's when I start thinking about stuff like this, just knowing that aside from me looking at their old picture, no one even recognizes their prior existence at this point. Then multiply that out by the millions of people who once walked this Earth, it's a lot to think about.

I don't know if I find that concept comforting as well, but it does make sense.

I guess. Idk, I do photography & really enjoy shooting in cemeteries. I don't think a playground would really set the same tone.

Yeah I know, when I made my post I guess I was thinking less about myself & the people currently around & more about all the millions of people who used to exist, have lives, family, friends, interests, senses of humor, etc etc, but are just erased to basically nothing in the collective memory of humanity. It's just overwhelming & sad to think about at times.

They are pointless in that sense, but they are nice places to walk around in & have some green space, especially in urban environments.

I'm the same, just never named the 'levels' or anything like that.

Well another showerthought, we don't even know like 99% of the people who live within a couple block radius of us, unless you're in a particularly friendly village or suburb. There could be amazing people living one street over from you for years that you will never meet.

Yeah I know, you're right, but I still think it's sad when you think about it.

You're right about that. It is just kind of sad to think about sometimes though, all the people who used to walk this Earth that are basically just wiped from history, and how quickly that will happen to everyone who is currently here. & not just people, there's been so many good pups who have come & gone, etc. I guess that's why it's a showerthought, cuz it's pointless to think about in day to day life even though it's true & somewhat disturbing.

Someday in the future, grad students will be researching reddit profiles to understand what life was like in the 21st century, lol.

I was thinking parents are one generation back, grandparents are two generations back, then beyond that most people know very little. If you interpret it differently, then just read my title as 4 generations back instead of 3.

humans existed before civilization bro