It's a common trope in mythic stories that people are allowed a glimpse of the future beyond their own time just before they die. This is what is implied here.
@The_one_who_nox Wow, seeing people different from yourself must be a real nightmare. Personally, I like migrants better than neofascist Russian trolls.
I don't think it's about entertainment, but more about cameras in general. During that age gangsters could just kill you on the street and get away with it, but as soon as cameras are introduced, the power dynamic changes. If anything, the TV makes you want to visit boardwalks and other places more, since you can experience them through video before actually going there. Look at Las Vegas.
@@IronKnee963 Not like cameras stopped them from murdering in the 50s, 60s, and 70s. It was entirely different laws being passed that weren't related to surveillance, like the RICO Act
Absolutely wonderful how, in the middle of a violent gangster drama, there's this time-freezing moment of magical realism that temporarily switches the genre to surrealist sci-fi.
Something about this scene gave me chills, still does in fact. It's indescribably eerie, gave me this strange sense of dread and excitement that something completely unexpected was about to happen, like Nuckie was about to realize he was in a television show, and break the fourth wall by saying my name.
Magical realism is just a term for fantasy or supernatural elements in a modern setting, like Neil Gaiman or Fargo. Yes, his death was tragic, but his 'afterlife' was one of the most beautiful moments on the show.
I believe that this episode was supposed to be in 1931. If so, the television scene is spot on. There was experimental, mechanical scanned television in 1931 and the picture on the screen is exactly what it looked like back then. A couple of years later, they ditched the mechanical method and went all electronic which produced a much superior picture and then TV took off.
Early in the scene he's looking back. Back at the world of the 19th century. Then he turns around and gets an invitation to see the future. He walks in and the first thing he says is "I don't see anything". When he finally sees something from the future he's uncomprehending. Confused. There's a future and he's not a part of it.
I was wondering what this scene meant and you are right, it's an analogy for Luciano's Commission which Nucky is not a part of. I think the bedtime lullaby signifies that Nucky's career as a criminal, and his life, is about to come to an end.
That would still be a big deal. Like when the VCR came out and you could now watch movies over and over without having to wait for them to play again on the big screen.
No, In 1925, most people still had not watched or seen a moving image, for example a silent movie. It was new and unknown until big name movies such as Dracula started to be heavily publicized. The late 1920s was when the masses moved from radio to the screen, so it was perfectly reasonable for Nucky to be in a state of awe at what he was seeing.
There'll be no phone, just some neurolink that allows you to see images in your retina or something. Personally I'm old fashioned enough to not want anything implanted in me.
My Dad as a kid went to the 1933 New York Worlds fair where they had one of the first televisions set up Told me no one thought that a radio that had movies in it would ever amount to much but they were really looking forward to those flying cars!
"The only way to knowledge is through experience." That could sum up the show. Nucky wanted to build an empire to show how great he was, but after everything he sees and loses, he knows it was all futile. The future is coming no matter what.
I wish the showrunners incorporated more of these type of scenes throughout the series. It lends a window into the past looking at what we wish was the future that never was.
For a moment, Boardwalk Empire became Black Mirror. Absolutely brilliant scene. I must admit at first I thought Nucky was just having some random dream.
it is mind-blowing the number of things that have changed in one hundred years..in all the centuries before that there were mild changes in comparison to the last one hundred...true historical times. Even in just my own last fifty..so so much is different than when I was a kid...totally changed world it is
I was talking to someone recently about how, even in the early 90's, homeless dudes would be wearing suits. At least a blazer. It shifted with the rise of the Oogles. Grunge music ushered in that era
Very underrated... or at least it seems that way. I personally put it up their with Breaking Bad and Sopranos. It has a solid 5 seasons and the ending was done very well. I would argue it definitely concluded better than Sopranos.
This scene is tonally perfect for this show. within the noir crime drama, moments of mystery and even a bit surreal. Scenes like this are what made BE so special!
I know im looking way too deeply into this, but Nuckys perplexed (albeit sad?) facial expression gives a foreshadowing of the literal future. Soon the time of real gangsters will be over, with their legacy only remembered by how the video box potrays them and crime like this being much harder to do due to technology. He is viewing the death of his era (or time) and witnessing the birth of the future he will not be a part of.
Very interesting scene. We take for granted how common TV is nowadays......this scene would be like a person in the 1970s seeing a personal computer for the first time or someone in the 1980s seeing a cell (brick)phone. It all starts somewhere......
No, that is not correct. In the 1940s the were no computers or mobile devices of any kind, a typical home had one telephone that usually was a rotary phone or in the 1950s maybe a push button phone. there was no answering machines or call holding or re-directing. All phones were on a type of party line system. Police officers had special phone boxes installed through a given city or town that were specially connected to the station Not one person in the 1940s or 50s had a mobile telephone, cell phones were first invented in the 1970s and were the size of large suitcases (housing the large battery etc), that the user would carry round. The late 1980s and early 90s saw the brick phone that had a primitive signal, technology and weighed a ton. Later in the mid to late 1990s the flip phone was created and from there gradually the mobile devices we see today. The 1990s and 2000s were the times in history that mobile phones and the internet was/were really developed and hit the mass market. They changed how people communicate and gained knowledge. Television really did not make its breakthrough in the mass public until the mid 1950s and early 1960s. Radio still dominated homes as late as the 1950s.
They’d probably look it with awe, but not to the point of Nucky. Cellphone like communicators and live images were featured on shows like Star Trek and the like, and “datapads” were science fiction in the movies in the 80s and 90s. Now taking a laptop or smart phone to the 30s and 40s, and you’d get the awe seen in Nucky.
joe danns the patent dates back to 1908, with the first being developed by AT&T in 40s, though they were more closely related to two way radios. Computers were in the 40s, with the Z3 beginning in 1941, serving as the worlds first programmable computer. The British used the Colossus Mark 1 & 2 in ‘44, which was used by code breakers to decrypt coded German messages. Interestingly enough, the fax machine dates back to 1846, and was used on the telegraph lines. Despite the kids enjoying their “selfies,” the fad began in the early days of photography.
I seriously thought they were going to play the Star Trek theme when I heard the first two notes...then I discovered it was actually an old symphony which just makes it more epic. It seemed like a nod to Star Trek and the future.
@@iamnotanuggetblackhart5103 Ha, I thought the exact same thing, the first two notes from TOS -- looking it up apparently the Trek theme was an intentional riff on the Mahler.
Funny, during the last season of BE, Nucky sees a yet-to-be completed Rockefeller Center while at a midtown Manhattan meeting with future political influencer Joseph Kennedy! Meanwhile, out on his boardwalk, the RCA company sets up an interesting stand containing the future of American entertainment, television. Had the Nucky character lived to at least 1936, he could've travelled to the Chicago World's Fair to see an improved version of that TV set. The same city once lorded over by a certain gangster from Brooklyn! 🌎🇵🇷😎
I know someone who thought this was the most memorable scene. She thought it represented the biggest threat to Nucky's legacy and livelihood in Atlantic City, the home theatre replacing live entertainment.
The final episode was so atmospheric. How they used the sounds of the music, the boardwalk, the seagulls and the ocean in the backround was outstanding. As if you could feel that something was in the air. Such a great show - never saw anything like it on TV again. Don't get me wrong: I do like other shows but to me, this one is simply unmatched in terms of directing, cast, writing, production design, music, camera and overall atmosphere.
I just finished watching the entire series, and wow I'm sad it's over. It was slow going at first, but after a while I seriously enjoyed every episode and character. I wish Mickey Doyle didn't die like that, it felt rushed, why kill him? His laugh always made me crack up hahaha.
@@ArkansasGamer Well, The Sopranos was great. But idk why, Boardwalk Empire for me personally was better. I finished those two shows & haven’t watched anything even close to them.
This scene reflects CHANGE and a new era as in the rise in power of Luciano and the Italians and their commission something that doesn’t include Nucky. And shows that Nucky’s time is coming to an end and Atlantic City will go on without him
@@soloist9495 You're telling me you don't think that condensing something that typically required an entire building down into a 4ft tall box was not a huge jump?
I'm enjoying the comments that frame this woman as being an omen of the future or some kind of angel, not just for the analysis, but also because if she's really just a showgirl for some newfangled gadget booth on a boardwalk then she is WAY overqualified on making an impression.
Her telling him about a message and turning around is what we call in sales, a Turn And Burn. Present your pitch, turn and have the customer follow you. But you CANNOT look back
To the younger millennials and gen Zs, this is how us old fuddy duddys reacted the first time we were able to do a “real time” video chat. The video quality of the person you were talking to was about the same as “Nucky” saw on the first television.
I thought this takes place in the 20s, although I didn't see the series. I love this scene. It makes you realize that an ocean of time separates us from 100 years ago. What looks primitive to us was the future to him.
The series ends in 1931, and this looks like a mechanical television rather than an all electronic one, where Farnsworth gave the first world demonstration of in 1934. So this actually is right in line with the technological development of the time, TV was to become the future, but in 1931, it wasn't really feasible besides a side show attraction.
Honestly I kind if wish there was a show that would show a world where the camera and television and internet and computers was never invented and it was present day.
No at all, moving pictures were common in cinema theaters. The earliest moving image (galloping horse) was shown in 1878 so by late 1920s cinema was a normal regular thing. Seeing it on a smaller scale wouldn't have awe struck people like that. Unless Nucky managed to never in his life time to have ever seen moving images (which would be somewhat the same as someone today to have never been on the internet).
It's not the same as someone using internet for first time. Internet isn't super different from Tv in a sense, very similar as far as projecting live images. Where as it's a much bigger jump to go from no tech whatsoever to seeing this magical box. The first phone was a way bigger stap then going from phones to smart phones
You'd think a gangster would be a little more suspicious of a person telling them to go into a dark room to see "the world beyond" 😂
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distracted by the genie what can I say.
@@spg1794 Yea that lady was pretty plump in all the right places.
He’s a politician 🎩🎩🎩 🧐🧐🧐
@@Hi-Five-Ghost Same thing
It really would've blown his mind if the tv showed the first season of Boardwalk Empire
More like last season amiryt "blown his mind"
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"What's HBO?"
Tommy Darmody really blew his mind.
😂 😂 😂
That TV had better resolution than some of the videos on UA-cam...
LMAO !!
When UA-cam launched in 2005?
Naaaaiiiilllllliiiiing it. Bless.
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It's a common trope in mythic stories that people are allowed a glimpse of the future beyond their own time just before they die. This is what is implied here.
@The_one_who_nox Wow, seeing people different from yourself must be a real nightmare. Personally, I like migrants better than neofascist Russian trolls.
The_one_who_nox how did you turn this into a far right talking point? There’s literally no reason to make a reply about how you hate Muslims.
Thank you for sharing this. I didn't pick up on that when I first saw.
Get over it.
@@dizziedylan oh bud, this is youtube. It's where the nazis go to rant, because here they can't get punched.
Very telling, the TV essentially replaced the boardwalk as the preferred entertainment for a huge proportion of people.
I don't think it's about entertainment, but more about cameras in general. During that age gangsters could just kill you on the street and get away with it, but as soon as cameras are introduced, the power dynamic changes.
If anything, the TV makes you want to visit boardwalks and other places more, since you can experience them through video before actually going there. Look at Las Vegas.
@@IronKnee963 Large families was also a key thing. Plenty of gangster material there.
@@IronKnee963 Not like cameras stopped them from murdering in the 50s, 60s, and 70s. It was entirely different laws being passed that weren't related to surveillance, like the RICO Act
Absolutely wonderful how, in the middle of a violent gangster drama, there's this time-freezing moment of magical realism that temporarily switches the genre to surrealist sci-fi.
Something about this scene gave me chills, still does in fact. It's indescribably eerie, gave me this strange sense of dread and excitement that something completely unexpected was about to happen, like Nuckie was about to realize he was in a television show, and break the fourth wall by saying my name.
The show had other brilliant moments of magical realism too, such as when Harrow died.
Pitty there weren't more. S2 onwards just got sicker; cruel and unwatchable
@@squamish4244 Harrow dying was not magical it was tragical...I'm still broken up about it.
Magical realism is just a term for fantasy or supernatural elements in a modern setting, like Neil Gaiman or Fargo. Yes, his death was tragic, but his 'afterlife' was one of the most beautiful moments on the show.
I believe that this episode was supposed to be in 1931. If so, the television scene is spot on. There was experimental, mechanical scanned television in 1931 and the picture on the screen is exactly what it looked like back then. A couple of years later, they ditched the mechanical method and went all electronic which produced a much superior picture and then TV took off.
He is such a freaking good actor.
He was really great in reservoir dogs.
He is. "I don't tip".
Early in the scene he's looking back. Back at the world of the 19th century. Then he turns around and gets an invitation to see the future. He walks in and the first thing he says is "I don't see anything". When he finally sees something from the future he's uncomprehending. Confused. There's a future and he's not a part of it.
Great analysis
Someone please edit him being clipped by Tony Soprano onto the screen.
That would be awesome lol
It’s also ironic (if you don’t know) James Gandolfini was going to play Nucky. Due to his close resemblance to the real Nucky Thompson
@@kennethmatthewtabbilos9261 Probably a good thing they didn't cast him then seeing as he died just a few years later.
We don't talk like that here.
@@360Nomad now you stop with that kind of tawk. It upsets me.
Future babe is smokin!
Need a name
@@mattkennedy6115 her name is Amy Allahallaharkbar Johnson
The whole exchange had a very "Tony Sopranos weird dream" vibe. Probably just buscemi though
The people behind the Sopranos made the show and yeah, there were a lot of similarities.
Tony's weirdest dreams take place on the boardwalk
@@kpkp42 interesting , yeah the season 2 finale
Tony B. s great great grandfather was a very interesting man.
Great scene. Nucky sees an unpredictable future.
I was wondering what this scene meant and you are right, it's an analogy for Luciano's Commission which Nucky is not a part of. I think the bedtime lullaby signifies that Nucky's career as a criminal, and his life, is about to come to an end.
I don't think he'd react the way he does in this scene. I mean, they were already familiar with movies. What a TV but a small movie screen?
@@TheOjamaYellow Exactly - it's an entire film projector and screen setup that would fit inside your outhouse!
That would still be a big deal. Like when the VCR came out and you could now watch movies over and over without having to wait for them to play again on the big screen.
No, In 1925, most people still had not watched or seen a moving image, for example a silent movie. It was new and unknown until big name movies such as Dracula started to be heavily publicized. The late 1920s was when the masses moved from radio to the screen, so it was perfectly reasonable for Nucky to be in a state of awe at what he was seeing.
Strange. I'm literally in bed watching this on my phone. Makes me wonder what the world will be like in another 50 yrs.
Same, jfl.
Right? I’m sure if I live to be 80 or 90 I’ll see things that I never would’ve believed possible.
there going to be a world war 3 over drinking water
There'll be no phone, just some neurolink that allows you to see images in your retina or something. Personally I'm old fashioned enough to not want anything implanted in me.
49 yrs
My Dad as a kid went to the 1933 New York Worlds fair where they had one of the first televisions set up
Told me no one thought that a radio that had movies in it would ever amount to much but they were really looking forward to those flying cars!
You mean 1939. '33 was Chicago.
That’s so cool the background is from a movie called “Metropolis” Probably the best silent film ever made
God Im having that Bioshock feeling here.
Bioshock Sucked ballz
@@andrewmontgomery6315 If that means _Bioshock_ felt good, you're goddamn right.
@@andrewmontgomery6315 I always called that game "your mom".
I'm glad I'm not the one ! Hopefully the next game looks this real 🤣
i loved the hell out of that game
"The only way to knowledge is through experience."
That could sum up the show. Nucky wanted to build an empire to show how great he was, but after everything he sees and loses, he knows it was all futile. The future is coming no matter what.
Good point!
I wish the showrunners incorporated more of these type of scenes throughout the series. It lends a window into the past looking at what we wish was the future that never was.
Well we did get nucky and rothstein seeing well ahead like. If nucky had lived i bet he would have seen potental of télévision
I suggest you look up retrofutuism it's exactly what you're asking for the people of the past speculating what our time would be like
I thought the scene was a nod to The movie “Metropolis”
It is.
@@gabrieleriva651 Plus a little nod to Star Trek with the music cue echoing the from the start of the main theme.
Djarra nice catch. Didn’t notice until I rewatched it
Brigitte Helm.
@@Djarra I heard the theme and I was also thinking Metropolis. Everybody wins.
Mechanical television that predates electronic was a nice touch.
The final episode really got me emotional more than a few times.
The soundtrack that can be heard in this video definitely helped!
For a moment, Boardwalk Empire became Black Mirror. Absolutely brilliant scene. I must admit at first I thought Nucky was just having some random dream.
This was and still is, probably one of the best episodes of TV ever produced.
Which episode is it???
@@danevertt3210 the final episode of the series
This out of context is kind of like a david lynch film. The dialogue, the shots... it actually could be a mini short film from lynch.
it is mind-blowing the number of things that have changed in one hundred years..in all the centuries before that there were mild changes in comparison to the last one hundred...true historical times. Even in just my own last fifty..so so much is different than when I was a kid...totally changed world it is
This feels like an ad you’d see for some high tech product on 1980s TV.
This was a fascinating scene, featuring the future on a device featuring a show in the past.
I see David Lynch directed this scene 😂
Hahaha the girl reminds me of Wild at Heart
Ahhh the 30s when even homeless people were in a suit and hat
True
I was talking to someone recently about how, even in the early 90's, homeless dudes would be wearing suits. At least a blazer. It shifted with the rise of the Oogles. Grunge music ushered in that era
@@secondhandheat6713 WTF are you talking about? lol
@Sanctus Paulus you're right. I was seeing things during the 80's, and half of the 90's..
Yes, people at least had pride and self respect still. Today its tshirts and pajamas.
How I feel seeing all the AI tech of the 2010s while still remembering the 2000s/2010s
It's interesting that none of us know what day will be our last but how they made Nuckys feel so ethereal and almost dreamlike is great
I miss this show.
Very underrated... or at least it seems that way. I personally put it up their with Breaking Bad and Sopranos. It has a solid 5 seasons and the ending was done very well. I would argue it definitely concluded better than Sopranos.
I wish they would’ve added two more seasons so they didn’t have to rush the last two
Top 5 show
This scene is tonally perfect for this show. within the noir crime drama, moments of mystery and even a bit surreal. Scenes like this are what made BE so special!
First *and* last time he'd see a TV. . .
I know im looking way too deeply into this, but Nuckys perplexed (albeit sad?) facial expression gives a foreshadowing of the literal future. Soon the time of real gangsters will be over, with their legacy only remembered by how the video box potrays them and crime like this being much harder to do due to technology. He is viewing the death of his era (or time) and witnessing the birth of the future he will not be a part of.
Very interesting scene. We take for granted how common TV is nowadays......this scene would be like a person in the 1970s seeing a personal computer for the first time or someone in the 1980s seeing a cell (brick)phone. It all starts somewhere......
Not sure that's the case. Cell phones (mobile radio phones) have been around since the 40's. Sure, not everyone had one, but they were around.
No, that is not correct. In the 1940s the were no computers or mobile devices of any kind, a typical home had one telephone that usually was a rotary phone or in the 1950s maybe a push button phone. there was no answering machines or call holding or re-directing. All phones were on a type of party line system. Police officers had special phone boxes installed through a given city or town that were specially connected to the station
Not one person in the 1940s or 50s had a mobile telephone, cell phones were first invented in the 1970s and were the size of large suitcases (housing the large battery etc), that the user would carry round. The late 1980s and early 90s saw the brick phone that had a primitive signal, technology and weighed a ton. Later in the mid to late 1990s the flip phone was created and from there gradually the mobile devices we see today.
The 1990s and 2000s were the times in history that mobile phones and the internet was/were really developed and hit the mass market.
They changed how people communicate and gained knowledge.
Television really did not make its breakthrough in the mass public until the mid 1950s and early 1960s. Radio still dominated homes as late as the 1950s.
They’d probably look it with awe, but not to the point of Nucky. Cellphone like communicators and live images were featured on shows like Star Trek and the like, and “datapads” were science fiction in the movies in the 80s and 90s.
Now taking a laptop or smart phone to the 30s and 40s, and you’d get the awe seen in Nucky.
joe danns the patent dates back to 1908, with the first being developed by AT&T in 40s, though they were more closely related to two way radios.
Computers were in the 40s, with the Z3 beginning in 1941, serving as the worlds first programmable computer. The British used the Colossus Mark 1 & 2 in ‘44, which was used by code breakers to decrypt coded German messages.
Interestingly enough, the fax machine dates back to 1846, and was used on the telegraph lines.
Despite the kids enjoying their “selfies,” the fad began in the early days of photography.
drinkwithamexican: Your juvenile posts indicate that you drink too much and then write dumb things.
Amazing scene. The start of Mahlers symphony #1 is heard. Very appropriate. The earliest days of tv displayed here could not be more suprising.
Great catch !!!
Yes! The same piece was used in the 1974 movie The Gambler, which is a great movie.
I seriously thought they were going to play the Star Trek theme when I heard the first two notes...then I discovered it was actually an old symphony which just makes it more epic. It seemed like a nod to Star Trek and the future.
@@iamnotanuggetblackhart5103 Ha, I thought the exact same thing, the first two notes from TOS -- looking it up apparently the Trek theme was an intentional riff on the Mahler.
The use of Mahler's 1st symphony (Titan) here is absolutely astounding and very foretelling of the impact that TV would have on the world
Thatmoment when you're looking at Nucky the same way He's looking at her.
This was me discovering Napster in high school. I saw the future and it didn’t involve going to the mall to buy overpriced CDs.
A glimpse into the future...enters and sees Phil saying how he did 20 fucking years...
Funny, during the last season of BE, Nucky sees a yet-to-be completed Rockefeller Center while at a midtown Manhattan meeting with future political influencer Joseph Kennedy! Meanwhile, out on his boardwalk, the RCA company sets up an interesting stand containing the future of American entertainment, television. Had the Nucky character lived to at least 1936, he could've travelled to the Chicago World's Fair to see an improved version of that TV set. The same city once lorded over by a certain gangster from Brooklyn! 🌎🇵🇷😎
I know someone who thought this was the most memorable scene. She thought it represented the biggest threat to Nucky's legacy and livelihood in Atlantic City, the home theatre replacing live entertainment.
An Xbox 1 was plugged in below it.
Ha!
LOL
and they said tv would never got off the ground when it was introduced lol
It started from this to watching cat videos on youtube.
Normally the 1920’s don’t interest me in the least. But when a show or movie accurately portrays an older period and does it well, I’m hooked
The final episode was so atmospheric. How they used the sounds of the music, the boardwalk, the seagulls and the ocean in the backround was outstanding. As if you could feel that something was in the air. Such a great show - never saw anything like it on TV again. Don't get me wrong: I do like other shows but to me, this one is simply unmatched in terms of directing, cast, writing, production design, music, camera and overall atmosphere.
I just finished watching the entire series, and wow I'm sad it's over. It was slow going at first, but after a while I seriously enjoyed every episode and character. I wish Mickey Doyle didn't die like that, it felt rushed, why kill him? His laugh always made me crack up hahaha.
Great analysis! Any other good show recommendations?
@@19tank81 right! Idk why they killed him off other than he wasn't necessarily the best at the game. Any other good show recommendations?
@@ArkansasGamer Well, The Sopranos was great. But idk why, Boardwalk Empire for me personally was better. I finished those two shows & haven’t watched anything even close to them.
@@19tank81 thank you 🙏
I was half expecting to scream “this women is a witch!” Lmfao
This scene reflects CHANGE and a new era as in the rise in power of Luciano and the Italians and their commission something that doesn’t include Nucky. And shows that Nucky’s time is coming to an end and Atlantic City will go on without him
Can you even imagine the shock of seeing that back then
they had news reels and movie houses since the 1890s so film in he 1930s is not a huge jump
@@soloist9495 You're telling me you don't think that condensing something that typically required an entire building down into a 4ft tall box was not a huge jump?
I could totally see this scene in a david lynch film
I was expecting him to get wack like Joe Pesci from Goodfellas
love how they made it creepy af
Love how they did this, and it was historically accurate.
'the world to come' i really like this scene
Only took one pixel to blow his mind. Better times
Such a great show. Wish they’d have made more episodes.
I'm enjoying the comments that frame this woman as being an omen of the future or some kind of angel, not just for the analysis, but also because if she's really just a showgirl for some newfangled gadget booth on a boardwalk then she is WAY overqualified on making an impression.
The use of Mahler’s Symphony #1 was brilliant!
Her telling him about a message and turning around is what we call in sales, a Turn And Burn. Present your pitch, turn and have the customer follow you. But you CANNOT look back
To the younger millennials and gen Zs, this is how us old fuddy duddys reacted the first time we were able to do a “real time” video chat. The video quality of the person you were talking to was about the same as “Nucky” saw on the first television.
"Space, the final frontier..."
These are the voyages of the star ship enterprise.
The first time I saw & used a TV remote I couldn't stop laughing. Because I considered watching TV the most lazy thing you could do
Nucky: "Meh..this TV thing will never catch on....."
He's great. He was really awesome in the Death of Stalin. Steve Buscemi I mean, not Nucky.
These little odd sequences like this in the show are what I enjoy because it heavily reminds me of the dreams Tony Soprano would have.
Nucky watches the "Sopranos" episode, where he gets whacked by Tony.
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Done
@@KermitFrog Thx!
Everyone else: It's the future, where's my hoverboard?
Me: It's the future, why aren't women dressed like the Statue of Liberty?
That is a VERY good question!
I enjoy the insightful, philosophical comments here. Intelligent people commenting on an intelligent television program.
better then the comment sections for the Sopranos videos that's for sure...
Scary Hobo That or the 'comments of the varsity athlete' variety lol.
dah0heavy Guess having a slightly less intelligent clientele is the price you pay for having a big mainstream hit.
Ahhh shhaaaattt up you face
Think i just found the cringiest, most fart-sniffingly pretentious comment thread on UA-cam.
It’s ironic that he sees the vision of the future and his demise the area where he committed his first unforgivable sin.
The first time I watched TV wasn't quite as interesting...
I thought this takes place in the 20s, although I didn't see the series.
I love this scene. It makes you realize that an ocean of time separates us from 100 years ago. What looks primitive to us was the future to him.
The series ends in 1931, and this looks like a mechanical television rather than an all electronic one, where Farnsworth gave the first world demonstration of in 1934. So this actually is right in line with the technological development of the time, TV was to become the future, but in 1931, it wasn't really feasible besides a side show attraction.
Honestly I kind if wish there was a show that would show a world where the camera and television and internet and computers was never invented and it was present day.
The first (mechanical) television system was demonstrated in 1926 by John Logie Baird, so it’s entirely feasible.
The one scene in any show that truly speaks to me. The speed of technology is a scary thing. I'm getting too old and slow for it. It's passing me by.
For a second I heard the theme to Star Trek
Same here. Until this video and its comments section, I was not familiar with Mahler's Symphony #1: ua-cam.com/video/cQFjDBFXN58/v-deo.html
It was. They could not use more because of copyright privileges
Good to know I wasn't just hearing things.
For real, for a second I thought they were gonna beam Nucky aboard the fucking Enterprise.
I miss this show.Steve Buchemi such a polished fabulous actor.💋❤They all rock.
Crazy that Quasimodo predicted all this
No, that guy played half -back for Notre Dame.
Nucky was in the Army Signal Corps. What this thing needs is what we call a Brogan adjustment
And this whole time it was told tv didnt come around until 1949-50!!.
It didn't even occur to me that television wasn't around when I watched this scene. That makes the scene pretty cool
I would love to travel back 100 years. It would be amazing
Quite a meta moment especially for Boardwalk Empire. Completely unexpected and dream like. Thought I was watching Blue Velvet for a moment.
This needs to be used for some good memes. I can imagine he finds "Chocolate Rain" playing on the TV lol.
nucky is awesome
I like how they used the beginning of Mahler's Symphony no.1 in this clip.
That's a better TV than I had in the 80's.
Sometimes I forget how the setting of this show takes place the better part of a century ago
This was one of my favorite scenes in the series.
I feel this way about the internet sometimes. Sometimes when i boot up my computer, it still blows my mind.
"The next time you see me, it won't be me"
Television aired it's first broadcast in 1928 and it was first introduced back in the same year.
1:50 Ah, he's watching Star Trek!
@Willem DaFuckedUp yes!
One of the greatest inventions ever made, at least for me 😂
Can you imagine how crazy this must've felt back then?
Reminds me of the scene of Buscemi beating the shit out of the TV in Fargo. "Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck!!!!!!"
That must have been amazing.
No at all, moving pictures were common in cinema theaters. The earliest moving image (galloping horse) was shown in 1878 so by late 1920s cinema was a normal regular thing. Seeing it on a smaller scale wouldn't have awe struck people like that. Unless Nucky managed to never in his life time to have ever seen moving images (which would be somewhat the same as someone today to have never been on the internet).
Fly Beep That’s different than seeing the person doing it live through a broadcast in a little box...
It's not the same as someone using internet for first time. Internet isn't super different from Tv in a sense, very similar as far as projecting live images.
Where as it's a much bigger jump to go from no tech whatsoever to seeing this magical box.
The first phone was a way bigger stap then going from phones to smart phones
What a great show. I don't watch much tv. This one however I watched the whole series.
This, but Nucky walks into the tent to witness a random man in a VR headset playing fruit ninja on an RGB lit gaming rig
Nucky: wtf did I just smoke