I know this blog is very technological centered with a bit of politics here and there, but today I’m inspired and I’ll write a bit about TV shows.
When i was a kid (and I had no internet) I was a TV-o-holic. And even today, I find a good show as much art as any regular book I read. My problem is that there are a lot of shows, and I don’t have the time to watch them all. Ok, I have, but I’m not like Laginha because I like to use my free time to learn and improve my skills.
So this is week is the reentré of the season, and there were quite a few shows starting. In my list there was Big Bang Theory, Prison Break S3 and later today Fringe. Stargate Atlantis is pending the download of Season 4 ;) And Heroes is not high priority right now. Maybe later.
One thing that I’ve noticed is that I can categorize shows into three kinds. The ones which episodes are (almost) independent, like Friends, Simpsons or Big Bang Theory. That ones you can see one alone that it won’t be a problem, and you don’t have to follow it.
The, there are the series that you follow, but they are not that dependent on the rest of the episodes. I’d include Fringe in this one, and maybe SGA.
The last one are the all-in-a-row shows. 24 is the best example of this. I cannot watch it weekly. It drives me nuts. 24 hours watching 24 rocks1. I’m watching the third season of Prison Break weekly and I’m hating it. And I’m not sure if I can wait until the end, since I’ll get spoilers all the time :/
1 It’s not really 24 hours, since episodes last 45 minutes since the commercials are cut off in the bittorrent channel ;)