What surprises me most about Blue summer is that the image that illustrates the article shows the parents of our generation and that, thirty years after its issuance, we, the majority of readers of this blog, are in a similar situation although there are things that have changed a lot. And others have not done so much, for example, the desire for children's vacations remains intact, the options to live adventures, discover the first loves, find the friends that will last for a lifetime I think it remains. Although perhaps the ages have gone down and 14 year olds are much more hustled, on average, than those of our generation.
In parents the changes are huge, to start the type of clothing, hairstyle and ways of doing on the beach. I think the current parents we are more protectors and we tend to be too much above children. At that time the children went freely by bicycle, without a helmet, alone, helping each other and with parents more vigilant than protective. They also smoked in front of the children as you can see in the picture and today they would be with the güasap, the tablet and a little more blurred the roles of fathers and mothers. The main novelty of the series is that it introduced two characters that offered a different view of the parents although they respected each other, I mean Julia Y Backgammon. I think that now these independent references would be frowned upon by current fathers and mothers even though they may be wrong. The truth is that Bea, Desi, Javi, Pancho, Quique, 'Piraña' and Tito can be found in many children in Spain who like those spent long summer vacations in second homes in the company of their parents. He Antonio Mercero's immense talent It is perceived that how those adventures of nineteen episodes remain in our memory and our summers still have many points in common with what we saw in that series shot on the beaches of Nerja, in Malaga.
Now the series has been remastered and it spreads with that new quality. It was first broadcast in October 1981 and was last seen almost 20 years ago.
Blue Summer was filmed between August 1979 and December 1980 and premiered on TVE on Sunday, October 11, 1981. The last chapter was aired on February 14, 1982, a day when the entire country became paralyzed. Starting from very modest figures, the audience of the series went from less to more, reaching nine million viewers in the last chapters. The success of Blue Summer was not limited to Spain, as it was also broadcast in Portugal, Latin America and other countries such as France, Algeria, Bulgaria, Angola and Czechoslovakia. The series became the Nerja's biggest tourist claim with attractions like the boat of Chanquete that is called La Dorada.
I recommend the column published by Hughes that explains many visions and images of Summer Blue from his point of view, since he is the How beautiful it is to live summer until how is the typical summer: the people of Madrid (this I think has changed a lot too), the town, the piranha churretoso polo, the bike and the whistle.
Although I think we have changed a lot since what was seen in that series and now We are much more similar to Europeans (More boring and cold?) Than we had little knowledge at the time. In any case, the kids who watch the series reset will find messages that will tune into your hormones, with your tastes, with your preferences and empathize with the protagonists for sure. Maybe with the other protagonists they don't find many references, especially that of not having a smartphone in your hands, although it will be worth taking a shared look with them to the series to know their reactions. It gives me very lazy to identify with those parents, true?
In Vaya Tele Lorena writes that she was 9 years old when she saw and nuances her and brings more visions of this series. In addition to including information to review it in Spanish Television 2.
