No apologies. I watch TV to escape, to feel happy, to be entertained, and sometimes educated. I know what I want when I sit down to watch a specific show.
“Good Eats”- in hopes of a new recipe or technique in the kitchen.
“Dirty Jobs”- to see stories decent folks who work hard in and take pride in their work. Oh, and to drool over Mike Rowe. So sue me, I’m shallow.
“24” because I’m a sucker for a strong, silent, protective, ‘kick ass and take names’ later type. I’d like to believe there is someone like that out there between me and the crazies with underwear bombs, small pox vials or a bad day being fixed with a gun.
“Criminal Minds-CSI-NCIS etc” because, well, the world is full of crazy bad folks and I’d like to believe that they are being caught at a rapid pace.
I watch them all with the intent of when the show ends, I’m feeling glad I watched it and then can trot off to bed with a feeling of having gained either knowledge, beefcake images to dance in my head instead of those thigh widening sugarplums, or maybe a bit vindication and the reminder that happy endings do happen.
Reality bites. I live and work there. We all do. Bills, family issues, job stresses, coworkers, commutes, the world at large won’t end your day at peace like a good sappy book or a TV show that leaves you glad you turned it on.
No apologies. Like a hot bath, a warm meal, a chat with a good friend— all are chosen to take the hard edges off of life.
Which is the root of today’s Snit: The 100th EP of Bones. Advertized, touted, plugged, pushed, pressed and sold as ‘what the viewers have been waiting for!’ Instead, we got the exact opposite. A supposed end (for what, the 13th time?) of the Bones-Booth Romance; which left me mightily annoyed and searching for something that would take away the ‘throw something at the TV’ urges. Mix in the fact that they royally screwed up the Hodgins-Angela romance 2 years ago…. Hrmpt….
The Mentalist looked like it was going down a similar path so I turned off the TV and went to bed.
It will be a long time before I watch Bones again unless there is literally nothing else better on and I know I’m distracted enough not to care.
Yes, I can literally turn off a show and not watch it again once it leaves me feeling worse for watching it than when I sat down to watch. Because Bones is now on that list of “The thought of watching it makes me feel unhappy” shows.
I quit watching CSI NY after they screwed up Danny and Lindsay— and it wasn’t until the next year (when I saw them getting bad together on You Tube) that I started watching again.
Other shows that have gone by the wayside just this year alone are:
L&O CI for ditching Eames and Goren (no reason to watch now).
Dexter I MAY be a not watch next season simply because the last scene of the last EP gave me nightmares for a week. Love the show, but it never gave me nightmares until now. I don’t do windows and I don’t do nightmares.
Same for the Burn Notice ending. For the first time it had a dark, sad feeling that none of the others have had (it’s on the ‘wait and see’ list).
House I quit watching this year because they screwed with Cameron and Chase (and I didn’t even LIKE Cameron that much) after they ended 13 and Foreman! I was just so tired of them effing up every relationship to the point the hospital resembled a Shaker Community. House, while a brilliant Dr. is too much of an ass to watch without some buffer of normal or happy or good or something positive!
This week, only one show left me smiling— Chuck, and for that I’m grateful… and I’ll be turning it on with a happy expectations next week.
Call me fickle, call me human, call me whatever. I’m just trying to find happy anywhere I can. And since I’m paying Direct TV a small fortune for the right to search via their satellites, I have the right to be picky.
