TV is garbage¶
Yesterday I tried to watch a bit TV. Usually I don’t do that. I use my TV more or less explicitly for displaying the output of my DVD-Player. Since other devices can do this as well, I’m now trying to sell it as well and get a projector instead. But I deviate from the subject.
For about an hour I zapped through a couple of channels without finding anything interesting. I saw mostly the following different shows:
A show where couple are brought together with their Ex-fiancés in order to create intimate situations. Their current partners are sitting somewhere else, are getting bits and piece of information to drive them crazy and are not allowed to interfere.I was wondering: How are the TV producers that they make the rules? If I would be in the situation that someone tells me just to sit around and wait until the weekend is over I’d tell them to seriously fuck off and I’d get out of that.
Sitcoms Some are quite OK, but not interrupted by commercials if you have to sustain the background laughter of the imaginary audience as well.
Documentation Most of the documentation are running on Discovery and National Geographic. Apart from that harmless situations are being described 200% more dramatic than they are and the information framework is being repeated all the time like I would forget about what I’ve just seen five minutes before, I don’t consider stuff like Border Security serious. And hey: the chapter Criticism reflects exactly what where my concerns there as well.
Telecines Yeah. Didn’t know half of them, the other half wasn’t interesting enough to catch me. I finally ended up watching the last 20 Minutes of Mad City while having Dinner. I might by actually that movie.
Commercials They were actually better than the TV program.
I should really order the next Season of Star Trek, get a network streamer or stop consuming movies at all. TV has developed into a direction I cannot follow any longer because I’m getting bored of that. I want to choose what I watch, when I watch and when I pause and when not. And to be honest: I could do it without the commercials.
BTW: For the ones now coming with the argument that without commercials the prices for products for raise: Please explain, because first of all people are still buying all kind of crap and TV commercials are just a small part of it. And if you still insist I’ll got and get the study that has proven that the expenses on commercials are more likely equal to the profit they create. But I’m not doubting that the products would become more expensive. Companies are usually greedy anyway and if you give them an excuse to raise the prises they will.