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I suppose it's about time I type some words on this thing again. I have a very large amount of work standing between me and graduation. I suppose I should be thankful that none of it is in the form of a single huge project, but I have 3-4 page essays (or their equivalent) due pretty much every day from now til December 16. I still have a 20 page packet to write for my sustainable development class every tuesday night, but I've worked out a system to take care of it. It's all just summarizing articles anyway, so it's tedious not challenging. I don't like any of what I've written so far so I'll change topics now and put words to a TV rant I thought up a few minutes ago...
I don't know what the hell is with TV shows these days. They've completely thrown the idea of a 'season' out the window, instead picking and choosing when to air new episodes with the same degree of logic my senile old cat employs when she picks a new random patch of floor to camp out on for a week. With all the new series, spinoffs, mini-series, tv movies, multimedia tie-ins, and rumored additions floating around, it's getting so you don't even know if you're watching the whole story anymore. As much as I like Battlestar Galactica, I have absolutely zero interest in trying to figure out what "BSG: Razor", "Caprica", and Season 4 are, when they will air, or if they're even being made. If you want me to watch a TV show, tell me a time, a channel and a day of the week and I'll try to remember it. I'll even watch the commercials. As long as I'm paying a cable bill though, don't make me jump through hoops to earn the privilege viewing your genius, TV producers.
This is one of my favorite things about Blythe. She's willing to figure out what a TV show is, buys all of it on DVD, then sits me down and makes me watch it with her. That's the only reason I even know what LOST is.
What really annoys me is that the last time I found a show that I actually WOULD have gone through all that effort to watch, they canceled it after less than half a season...I will defend "Kingdom Hospital" as a great TV series to my last breath. Andrew McCarthy was actually very good, and don't even get me started on how insanely awesome Antubis was. Maybe that's my problem with modern tv: taste. By far my favorite show of the decade, and everyone else thinks it's so bad that they pulled it after five episodes and have no plans to even try selling it. I'd buy it...(single tear)...I'd buy it....
I don't know what the hell is with TV shows these days. They've completely thrown the idea of a 'season' out the window, instead picking and choosing when to air new episodes with the same degree of logic my senile old cat employs when she picks a new random patch of floor to camp out on for a week. With all the new series, spinoffs, mini-series, tv movies, multimedia tie-ins, and rumored additions floating around, it's getting so you don't even know if you're watching the whole story anymore. As much as I like Battlestar Galactica, I have absolutely zero interest in trying to figure out what "BSG: Razor", "Caprica", and Season 4 are, when they will air, or if they're even being made. If you want me to watch a TV show, tell me a time, a channel and a day of the week and I'll try to remember it. I'll even watch the commercials. As long as I'm paying a cable bill though, don't make me jump through hoops to earn the privilege viewing your genius, TV producers.
This is one of my favorite things about Blythe. She's willing to figure out what a TV show is, buys all of it on DVD, then sits me down and makes me watch it with her. That's the only reason I even know what LOST is.
What really annoys me is that the last time I found a show that I actually WOULD have gone through all that effort to watch, they canceled it after less than half a season...I will defend "Kingdom Hospital" as a great TV series to my last breath. Andrew McCarthy was actually very good, and don't even get me started on how insanely awesome Antubis was. Maybe that's my problem with modern tv: taste. By far my favorite show of the decade, and everyone else thinks it's so bad that they pulled it after five episodes and have no plans to even try selling it. I'd buy it...(single tear)...I'd buy it....