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**Opaque** · 05 Feb 2011, 05:11 AM

In a fucked up way I kind of am.

I haven't watched a show on television the proper way in over half a decade, so if I pull this whole season off it will kind of be a big deal. Otherwise I only watch shit at my convenience, so the part I'm proud of is disciplining myself, but the result is watching TV, so I shouldn't actually be proud about that discipline; yet here we find ourselves.

**Cowutopia** · 05 Feb 2011, 05:20 AM

Be ashamed of yourself.

**Mzo** · 05 Feb 2011, 07:19 AM

You should feel more pride in not caring and watching the episodes at your leisure, without commercial interruption.

**cka** · 05 Feb 2011, 09:07 AM

Originally Posted by Mzo

You should feel more pride in not caring and watching the episodes at your leisure, without commercial interruption.

can't do that if the original broadcast doesn't have viewers (which lead to ratings which lead to renewals!)

**Mzo** · 05 Feb 2011, 09:32 AM

Time to make a better system, I guess.

Smart people are usually the pioneers but eventually the dummies will get tired of scheduled programming as well.

**cka** · 05 Feb 2011, 09:45 AM

not gonna happen any time soon... I'm not arguing that the system isn't shitty, because it is, but it's the best one we got for now

a prime example of this phenomenon is stargate universe: I know for a fact it had a pretty big fanbase, and many of them vehemently defended the show even though it was just a ham-fisted battlestar galactica, but because lots of those people just watched it via dvr/hulu and typically fast forwarded through and/or adblocked commercials, syfy didn't renew it because it wasn't bringing in the numbers that it needed to sustain itself