_**Gold Star for Robot Boy**_

We are living in a golden age of television. I don’t know if I’ve just grown up and suddenly realized just how much fantastic TV airs on a regular basis or if I’m just in the right television-orientated mindset at the right time. But either way, right now, we’re all getting just an insane amount of quality programming.

Have you seen the stuff AMC’s throwing on television? Have you seen “Breaking Bad”? I’ve _never_ seen TV like that. Seriously, it’s on Netflix now. _Please_, go watch it. Or “Community”? I am so impressed with NBC for continuing to finance and support such an odd, wonderful show.

But here’s the thing: Am I just some young punk whose idea of TV has no realistic back history? I am only 19. So, yeah, I probably am missing a chunk of TV back-history. Does that make my opinions on TV invalid? Maybe, but that didn’t stop me from sending out pitches asking my writers that are my age or younger to analyze this fall’s TV slate. To me, even if you don’t know everything about something, you know if you like a show or not.

Anyway, I should be probably be relating this letter to all the Homecoming hullabaloo that’s going on this weekend, but frankly I’m more way more excited for “The Walking Dead” coming back on TV than any homecoming festivities, which sounds blasphemous and is, but TV has much heavier influence on my life than any football game. I mean, right now, as I write this, I’m getting distracted by the high-def. flatscreen playing “Conan” in the background.

I don’t want to say my life is governed solely by TV because it’s not, and that’s just playing into that “Calvin and Hobbes”-styled American trope that we’re all brainwashed by television (not that I have anything at all against “Calvin and Hobbes”). TV isn’t my life, but it is something I love taking about and it is something I want cover here at MOVE.

So, to get back on the beginning of this article (y’know, that whole “coming full circle” thing), how long is this golden age going to last? I don’t really expect all the shows I love to be on in 10 years, which is a sad thought.

So, actually, I’m not going to think about it. I’m just going to soak it up while it’s here. Soak up the gold, people!