Michael Apted's “Seven Up” series is reaching its conclusion

Re:Michael Apted's “Seven Up” series is reaching its conclusion by swampers on Friday November 29, 2019 @08:34AM (#21664250)

I caught wind of the series a few months back, and hunted the episodes down as well as I could. I'm up to 56 Up and I've found it really interesting especially given the timeline on camera is roughly in line with my father's (before he passed away a few years ago.)

The biggest takeaway for me was that, while you can't necessarily 'see the man' in a seven year old, you can most certainly see the seven year olds in the adults. Everyone's just trying to get along; but we're all still just kids inside, a little scared and a little uncertain about how to deal with the world at large.

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Re:Michael Apted's “Seven Up” series is reaching its conclusion by iainmerrick on Friday November 29, 2019 @08:41AM (#21664273)

while you can't necessarily 'see the man' in a seven year old, you can most certainly see the seven year olds in the adults.

That’s a very keen observation. Not quite as strong a claim, but it fits better with the minority of participants whose lives seemed to take an unexpected direction.

Growing up as a successive winnowing of possibilities; a lot of the winnowing complete as early as age 7, but by no means all.

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Re:Michael Apted's “Seven Up” series is reaching its conclusion by randomsearch on Friday November 29, 2019 @08:43AM (#21664287)

Adults are children in bigger clothes.

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Re:Michael Apted's “Seven Up” series is reaching its conclusion by sgt101 on Friday November 29, 2019 @09:05AM (#21664428)

My first born cured me of childish ways.

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Re:Michael Apted's “Seven Up” series is reaching its conclusion by JamesSwift on Friday November 29, 2019 @02:34PM (#21666294)

My experience with having kids was that it taught me that adults/parents are mostly getting through life by guessing. You don't figure life out at some point, you just pick up small things along the way and get better at rolling with the ups-and-downs.

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Re:Michael Apted's “Seven Up” series is reaching its conclusion by randomsearch on Sunday December 01, 2019 @04:36AM (#21674696)

Indeed, this was my point.

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Re:Michael Apted's “Seven Up” series is reaching its conclusion by coldtea on Friday November 29, 2019 @01:08PM (#21665860)

And yet many a 50-year old will get a fast car, chase younger women, etc, despite having 1 or more children already...

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Re:Michael Apted's “Seven Up” series is reaching its conclusion by jay_kyburz on Friday November 29, 2019 @03:26PM (#21666628)

My kids reminded me how much fun it was to be one.

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