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Apr. 29th, 2008
So, I'd recently gotten into The Next Food Network Star. I hadn't seen season 3, and they'd started rebroadcasting it on Fine Living Network. (Fine Living Network -- what Food Network looks down on.) So, cool. I set my season pass, and each week another "new to me" hour of cooking and pathos showed up.
Well. I watched last night's episode... and it was a terrible episode. Everything was breakneck speed, nothing was being developed, things were just being sprung left and right. And then they moved to elimination... nineteen minutes in.
Clearly, the rebroadcasts aren't doing well, so they'd decided to edit them to half an hour and get them over with.
And so, it went from one of the best reality type shows on television to one of the worst half hours on television period.
I went to iTunes. It's not available for sale.
I went to Amazon Unbox. It's not available for sale.
I looked for DVDs. They're not available for sale.
I checked the website. No episodes available for watching.
This right here? This is why people fucking pirate television, idiots. It's not that we're evil. It's not that we're cheap. It's that we actually want to watch your shows and you either don't make them available, or you fuck them up when you do, and you don't give us options to spend money on the legitimate outlets for them. I don't know if I'll bother actually trying to find a torrent of them or anything (I'd need to actually get torrenting software first, and I'm not sure I can be bothered), but I promise you that I'm way lazy enough to spend money on them if you'd fucking let me.
Or, you know, you could actually show the full episodes the way you started to do, idiots. Then I'd watch them on your fucking network in the first place.
(Do I seem disproportionately angry? That's because I hate fucking stupidity. And I'm a dork.)
Well. I watched last night's episode... and it was a terrible episode. Everything was breakneck speed, nothing was being developed, things were just being sprung left and right. And then they moved to elimination... nineteen minutes in.
Clearly, the rebroadcasts aren't doing well, so they'd decided to edit them to half an hour and get them over with.
And so, it went from one of the best reality type shows on television to one of the worst half hours on television period.
I went to iTunes. It's not available for sale.
I went to Amazon Unbox. It's not available for sale.
I looked for DVDs. They're not available for sale.
I checked the website. No episodes available for watching.
This right here? This is why people fucking pirate television, idiots. It's not that we're evil. It's not that we're cheap. It's that we actually want to watch your shows and you either don't make them available, or you fuck them up when you do, and you don't give us options to spend money on the legitimate outlets for them. I don't know if I'll bother actually trying to find a torrent of them or anything (I'd need to actually get torrenting software first, and I'm not sure I can be bothered), but I promise you that I'm way lazy enough to spend money on them if you'd fucking let me.
Or, you know, you could actually show the full episodes the way you started to do, idiots. Then I'd watch them on your fucking network in the first place.
(Do I seem disproportionately angry? That's because I hate fucking stupidity. And I'm a dork.)