wow! what an amazing creation.

i must admit, it feels a little wrong to watch people this intimately. they all seem very cynical, and i can't help but wonder if that is a product of been scrutinized every 7 years.

a friend of mine gets called every year (or every few years) and asked about his outlook on life, his career, this sort of thing. it's part of a study by some university tracking that seems very similar. I wonder what it's like to get this grant and how to keep it going...it's a research project that by necessity must outlive (or last longer than the working careers of) the initial funders/writers.

simple solution, jmay.

robot funders/writers.

Let me know when they condense the series into one feature length film. The idea is interesting, but I don't really think I have the stamina to catch up to today (or, annoyingly, if I do, to wait for the next installment).

The fun, of course, is seeing how people change over time. I'd like to see that contrast highlighted during the film, not simply left for me to figure out on my own. Hopefully someone will do a wrap-up when the whole project is over.

i'm guessing each successive film contains bits from the previous films, right? which means it would probably be really boring to watch them backwards, and a little repetitive to watch them forwards, but watching the new one every seven years should be just about right.