Timewaster's Guide Archive
Departments => Movies and TV => Topic started by: Mad Dr Jeffe on February 14, 2006, 08:58:26 AM
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Its wierd, over the last 3 months I've had no desire to watch regular TV. Im interested in some stuff on history international (i.e. History Channel England... /me inserts sarcasm here "big difference on perspective guys") but in general you can take my TV and eat it for all I care.
I havent even really cared for movies.
Its odd.
I spend a lot more time online now which may be why...
but who knows.
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I'm not a big TV watcher eitehr, but I've found a couple of shows that hold my attention. Battlestar Galactica and Supernatural are Tivoed every week!
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KILL YOUR TV!
I watch no TV. It's in the basement where I don't go often. Plus hte reception's terrible. And there really isn't anything online to motivate me to see it.
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I'm with Jeffe. I spend a lot of time online. The TV in our bedroom has no cable and so i only use it to watch movies while I sew. I watch Lost on Wednesdays and that's it, though I'm going to be working during the next few episodes.
I actually see more TV at work than I ever do at home. I was worried that after our "year of no tv" last year moving into a house with wall to wall cable would cause me to regress. But after a month of watching Star Trek reruns on Spike I got bored.
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I think thats the trick...
Network TV does a good job of tricking you into a cycle and feeding a desire to flop in front of the box. Break that cycle however and you have no real compulsion to watch it.
News used to be an addiction for me, untill I had to work where we monitored the news 24/7 I have no problem not watching news for 3 to 4 weeks now.
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tuche my trebuchet
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Yeah, the "cycle" shows can get you. For me, though, I watch only two shows, really. "Lost" and once in a while "Survivor." (My bro and I like to argue about the castaways and such). Oh, I used to watch Smallville all the time, but I got a bit bored, and I missed some shows, so now I'm totally behind.
Anyway, I'm doing pretty good at not letting myself get hooked on any more shows. Yay! Good thing, too, since school and work are so crazy.
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I'm only following Veronica Mars which, to my knowledge, doesn't air in Britain. So I download the episodes (about 6 hours after they air in the USA, harhar), watch them, and delete them. Thats the only show I follow. Otherwise I just watch various music channels (except MTV itself, of course).
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With our move to our new apartment, we're ditching cable. It's just ridiculous to pay 100 bucks for cable + internet. Instead, we're going to be paying $5.70 a month for a phone line (plus universal recovery fee etc.), $12.99 for slow DSL, and we're going to start buying season DVDs of TV shows.
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Given that I watch almost all of my TV in DVD-collection form, I can completely understand that.
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My children are scandalized if they think I'm watching 'their' TV. So no daytime TV for me. And, frankly, prime time shows are crap, particularly during the summer. So I totally am feeling the same vibe here.
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The only things I miss about not having cable are Gilmore Girls and The Colbert Report. I can download the former and watch portions of the latter on Comedy Central's website. And I own all the available seasons of GG on DVD, and am asking for season 6 for Christmas (I'm assuming it will be available by then). I don't bother with network TV.
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You can find torrents for both online...
My interest is piqued in a new PBS mini show in the frontier house series... http://www.pbs.org/wnet/ranchhouse/
oh and the new Cousteau thing... Ocean Adventures! Rawk... but thats what torrents are for.
I might try and watch em when they come back on.
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I generally watch news, but even that I receive mostly off cnn.com. Mostly, I grab the box set from the local Walmart and call it good. Youtube works too. :)