The answer you get is derived from the concept developed by the person you ask, who watched those characters and abstracted their essentials into a powerful predictive model, useful for entertainment or moral development. And in this, they have done nothing different than they might in reading the Fountainhead and understanding the nature of Roark or Wynand. Watching a Weather Channel every day helps form concepts of meteorology that one might not otherwise develop, including concepts concerning the structure in time and space of the air mass flows across the United States. Ask someone watching an advertisement for a particular product to weigh it against another similar product, and you will find that the watcher has a clear concept of which parts of which claims are likely to be true, and can carefully weigh product claims one against the other. The force and speed of development and dispersal of information and communication technologies is overwhelming to some, but not even close to fast enough for early adopters.
People have many different uses for all of the different levels of information technology.
The invention of the synthesiser has not extinguished the symphony, but it has offered an opportunity to every composer to try their hand in the highly competitive market, as have the various types of recording equipment and facilities available at low cost. Desktop publishing and video have widened and improved the quality of the print and video market. Life, especially the life of the mind, is complex. But social commentators are fond of raising some strange straw men. For instance, a child who only plays video games, never reads, goes to school, or interacts socially.