"It's Official, Quentin Tarantino Has Aged Out"

You could say, in fact that Quentin Tarantino aged himself out of the film industry since Reservoir Dogs. 

The guy makes period pieces and because they're all original, he's insolated and therefore, it isolates him to the kind of movies and television the industry doesn't make anymore.

In The Context Of Television

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Tarantino's relevancy came to mind recently while I was watching an episode of Watson. 

The characters in the series are decades younger than me, the environments contemporary, the mindset is current; the culture is new and often, jarring enough to repel me from watching.

Sometimes, I don't know what the fuck is going on.

And with Watson, I'm forced to accept the premise that the character is from a property that spent a long period of time in the public domain, with some adjustments extended for copyright.

Nostalgically we feel a connection to a property we grow up with and I, specifically, guard it as if it were my own but at about 100 years before I arrived, it belonged to the creator and his readers.

Who has more authority as a gatekeeper than them? 

Watson's job is to lure me in, to keep me watching and my job is to meet it halfway, but naturally, I'm reluctant. 

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Signaling my surrender, I would wave the white flag much like Tarantino is doing with ending his career as a movie director after his tenth film. 

"I've been doing it for 30 years, and it's, it's time to wrap up the show. Like I said I'm an entertainer. I want to leave you wanting more you know ,and not just work and I don't want to work to diminishing returns. I don't want to be... one, I don't want to become this old man who's out of touch, when already I'm feeling a bit like an old man out of touch when it comes to the current movies that are out right now. And that's what happens."

I was looking to quote him from a round table with other directors where he said directing was a "young man's game," but that's a common saying. 

In both, however, he's saying what I am. 

I was actually taken aback to learn that he was watching new movies, especially the "theme parks" comment that got Scorsese in "trouble".

In regards to television, Tarantino has directed his share of it ("Motherhood", "Grave Danger",) perhaps as a way to get to know and understand an ever evolving industry and one in which he's less familiar?   

Struggling With Culture Shock

In general and as a viewer, I can't keep up with all of the societal changes so I often go through culture shock before I adjust to a show. 

Also, when he's creating something, how shocks does he have to submit to before he's no longer Tarantino?

It could serve as a turning point if he decided to keep making movies after his tenth film. 

This happens to a lot of directors who keep going, where they leave behind periods in their filmography. 

One "mistake" was how hard he leaned in, risking a lot with his use of the n-word in the majority of his films.

If you watch reaction videos, as I do, you get a chance to see a new generation cringe through some of his movies before they too have to adjust. 

It's for that reason that it's too late for him to adapt to everything now. 

It would throw everything off balance.

Also, when Tarantino speaks, I listen, for the simple fact that he's been right. 

As much as I would hate to see him retire, he's right about that decision. 

With that, as far as I'm concerned, it's official...

... Quentin Tarantino has aged out.