05-16-2008, 02:57 AM
Quote:I usually do, and my wife goes nuts that I do the both at the same time.These poor shows. They go off on commercial breaks for a good 4 minutes. When they come back, they have to assume that a large percentage of the people that are tuned in are new viewers -- because they lost so many in the long break.
So, they have to summarize what's happened in the show so far.
THEN they have some new content, some of which you've already seen in the teasers.
THEN, before they can go on their next 4 minutes break, they have to give you teasers about what's coming up. The teasers show the "problems" but none of the "resolutions".
Go back to top.
So for each 10 minute cycle you get
4 minutes of ads
1+ minute of summary
1+ minute of teaser
which leaves about 3.5 minutes out of 10 that you're supposedly getting new info. But even then, they are cycling. First they show ABCD. Then a talking head. Then they rewind to B, and do BCDE. Talking head. Rewind to C and show CDEF. Talking head. So parts C and D have been shown 3 times in this segment. And you had already seen D in two previous teasers.
How could anyone watch this and not scream at the show to GET ON WITH IT ALREADY!!!! -- unless one has a magazine or, as in my case, a remote I use to jump channels back and forth. Which means my wife and I can't watch cable together.
-V