Tuesday, October 8, 2013

More on the TV season

Maybe it's because the last few seasons have had some solid successes in the Fantasy and SF genres. I'd expected more as others learn from their example.

I've knocked more timers off my PVR now, and all, it seems, for the same reason. Everyone seems to have gone to the same school, but I'm not sure who's teaching. Whoever it is, I'd like to assure them that jumping around like a frog on a hot plate is not a good way to claim my interest. I don't pretend that my tastes are universal, or even in the majority, but I can say that no one in my family had any objection to saying goodbye to several new shows.

The "Witches of East End" was our latest casualty. After watching the first episode jump around between sisters, friends of sisters, mother of sisters, sister of mother, and other incarnations of both mother and sisters, I paused to see just how long the episode was. When I discovered I was only twenty-five minutes in, less than halfway, I deleted it. Then I took out the timer.