- Money. Why spend money on cable when I could buy books?
- Commercials. I have a love-hate relationship with commercials. Once, they're adorable mini-movies. Ad nauseum, they're, well, just awful.
- Time. I found that if I sat down to watch a 30-minute show, I'd sit down early, 'cause I didn't want to miss anything...and for some reason just keep watching. (I don't have an addictive personality. Really. Maybe only with moving images...)
- Family. I have a family that doesn't turn the TV off when I go visit. As a teen, my sister used to come home from school, turn on the TV, go down the street and have tea with a neighbour for 2 hours, come home and yell "Hey, who turned off the TV? I was watching it!" (I wish I were exaggerating. She's better now. Some.)
- Control. I want to watch what I want to watch when I want to watch it. Not Tuesdays at 9. Yes, I could use a VCR...but then I still have to remember to program it, and find time to watch it. Maybe Tivo is for me -- but then we're back to the money issue. So, I collect and watch movies.
Now, after the 5 or 6 years of no cable, we're here, and we have cable (only Basic, mind you -- but that's another issue!)...and I've been exposed to CSI.
Just an aside: Why on Earth would anyone want to go to Las Vegas? Aren't they worried about the Jessica Fletcher Effect?
Anyway -- I really like the characters, the stories...the show. So now I'm trapped. Thursday night, 9 p.m. comes along, and I am there watching my show.
"My show." Gads. Listen to me.
And tonight reminded me about why I hate TV...it was one of those shows that picked up the story lines from a couple previous ones, and left you with tasty (only to the studio execs that want people hooked!) mini-cliffhangers -- leaving me worried that I might miss the episode next week. I'm trapped. Hooked. Lost.
But at least it's only one show.
Lori
6 comments:
That "one show" starts at eight and ends at ten. It's called "Grey's CSI" as far as I can tell. The first half is about lust between massively overworked interns at a hospital. The second half's usually about massively over-equipped cops, who handle more dead bodies than the medical students.
Bloody dramas. Give me a guy who swans about the universe in a phone box saving the world any day.
And if I'd known about your thing with "The Nanny" I'd still be single--Jude Law in reverse.
I don't watch dramas -- too much of a time commitment. Real life is dramatic enough. And reality shows are all about schadenfreude. But don't get between me and my HGTV!
You're catching on too late to watch the original: Da Vinci's Inquest, the best show that tv has ever seen. And a big time-saver, as there was only ever one of them.
Isn't there a cable channel that's all CSI and Law and Order? There should be.
I like Law & Order...reminds me of watching TV with my Dad. And yes, DaVinci's Inquest -- fabulous show. Could never find/watch it consistently, though.
And Metro, love. The Grey's Anatomy thing is the warm-up...note the point about Time above -- I would not watch it if I were not worried about missing a moment of CSI.
Gads.
I don't watch TV either; but the reason is that I am too addicted to PC! :P
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