Fuckers.

[demiurgent]

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.)

Comments

[cartoonlad.livejournal.com]

This is why people fucking pirate television, idiots.

I'm in that choir, singing those praises, brother.

Arrrr! Strike ye colors CW!

[amigoid.livejournal.com]

And stupidio grande' "the WB channel, now called the CW" (WTH?), has beauty and the geek available on their website, BUT NOT SMALLVILLE.

Yeah, I'll still get the DVD's for Smallville, so they'll get the money. BUT WHEN I MISS AN EPISODE? Meh. off to hunt for a torrent.
Not because I WANT TO, but because there is no other option ('cept maybe waiting for it to show up in re-run rotation). And they could have me as a captive audience with their inserted web ads and steaming video ads. (Note I did not mis-spell that.) Steaming pile...

And yes, I watch Beauty and the Geek, and Smallville. All of the episodes, from the beginning. And Cloe rocks. One more season folks.

Hell No, I won't Tivo. I don't want to watch MORE TV, just the stuff I want. VCR works just fine, and I don't have to let big brother know my viewing habits. I know that seems to be a really luddite attitude, but the only DVR I want is one I built with no "strings" attached.

Re: Arrrr! Strike ye colors CW!

[amigoid.livejournal.com]

Which reminds me... I need to see if anyone has a torrent for the old 60's batman series. Amazing that its still not available on DVD. Yeah. What Sabre said.

Re: Arrrr! Strike ye colors CW!

[lurkerwithout.livejournal.com]

CW just recently announced a WBonline network. Two of the shows that will be part of it mentioned were Smallville and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. No idea on quality or what not...

Re: Arrrr! Strike ye colors CW!

[fmphoenixhawk.livejournal.com]

The funny part? The news declared kidswb.com and thewb.com as NEW websites. They aren't new! When WB still had a separate network, they were the sites used! WTF?

Re: Arrrr! Strike ye colors CW!

[fmphoenixhawk.livejournal.com]

Well, there's always the MythTV.