Comments | theantijoss: Happy Easter to my Christian Friends!

theantijoss

Happy Easter to my Christian Friends!

Apr 12, 2009 21:08

I hope you had a great holy day.

For the more secular types, YAY CHOCOLATE!!!! *spazzes*

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I can't believe I've been so distracted over the past week or so that I didn't know Kings had been moved to Saturday to die! That sucks. :(

But for those who want to follow it to the end and weren't aware -- Starting April 18, the final Kings eps will be ( Read more... )

overeating, holiday, easter, #amazonfail

Comments 8

logicalargument April 13 2009, 01:35:13 UTC

NBC is so lame that after I signed up for text alerts from them about "Kings," their own text alerts gave me a reminder for tonight (Sunday), even though they had already moved it.

Still had a good Easter Sunday, though - it just would have been a little bit better if "Kings" had been on.

theantijoss April 13 2009, 01:44:41 UTC

I know! I was sitting here like a fool, waiting for Dateline to be over, and suddenly this cheerful commercial comes on, chirping about Kings wonderful new home on Saturday nights, almost as I was simultaneously reading that article about it already pretty much being dead.

You know, this seems like the PERFECT show for a cable network -- I can't believe nobody tried to pick it up yet! I was really starting to get into it more and more every week, too. :(

logicalargument April 13 2009, 02:01:51 UTC

Hmmm, that Publishers Weekly link about the Amazon.com thing keeps erroring out. Overloaded, maybe?

lunalelle April 13 2009, 02:55:54 UTC

I think that maybe the "glitch" was that they were really supposed to derank and limit searches on what might actually be considered adult material.

Which I'm still pissed about. Amazon doesn't need a back room if other family bookstores don't have them. And if they "correct" the "glitch" so that only adult books (and not DVDs, apparently) are limited, the erotic books would still be withheld.

That's my theory. And the answer still sucks. I wonder if there will be this outrage and internet participation when the non-explicit stuff is reinstated. I hope there would be. But I somehow doubt it.

theantijoss April 15 2009, 00:23:45 UTC

I don't know that I buy any of their stories. A number of the works that were blocked were not explicit material, but simply gay-themed, or about health-related issues.

I'm sure you've heard all this stuff already. ;) Amazon is like, my lifeblood when it comes to media. Or it has been in the past, anyway. In recent years, I've been spreading out more. For instance, I really like ebooks, so I buy a lot of my books at fictionwise.com. I've also been using my library a lot more.

lunalelle April 15 2009, 00:32:44 UTC

Sadly, the one thing that I depend on Amazon for I can't really find to the same degree elsewhere. Used DVD box sets are the best price for the quality there. x.x I just hope this gets cleared up.

spiralleds April 13 2009, 04:35:05 UTC

I am majorly disappointed in NBC. Kings is an interesting, unique drama that they'd done bupkiss to promote. The other day there was an NBC promo commercial - 10 seconds, tops for Kings, just vaguely referring to it as a "powerful new drama" or such, then 50 seconds promoting in detail Celebrity Apprentice. And they wonder why it can't find an audience.

I tell you, I drive home for a little Easter Dinner action, and Amazon implode. I do not get what they could have possibly been thinking.

theantijoss April 15 2009, 00:26:12 UTC

Well, you know the big networks don't think that their average viewers WANT thoughtful television. I tmakes me wish Kings had been on cable in the first place.

Amazon, of course, insists it was an error. A very specifically targeted error.