It's just so different from the way TV works here
Different and evil. It'd drive me nuts watching a television season all cropped up like that.
Edited for clarity.
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Leigh - Jun 16, 2003 9:53:15 pm PDT #5144 of 9843
Nobody
Kassto - Jun 16, 2003 9:55:06 pm PDT #5145 of 9843
`He combed his hair, Put on a shirt that his mother made, And he went on the air...'
We NEVER get re-runs in the middle of seasons. People here would be outraged at the thought. A season always plays straight through. Though you do get reruns of previous seasons on one of our cable channels.
I had no idea this happened in the US until I started reading this board. Is it because they haven't had time to make each episode to fit a schedule or is just to drag it out over the year?
Angus G - Jun 16, 2003 10:33:53 pm PDT #5146 of 9843
Roguish Laird
It's very rare in Australia too.
Welcome Emlah! I gather you're another Aussie: whereabouts are you?
Typo Boy - Jun 16, 2003 10:34:02 pm PDT #5147 of 9843
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Cordelia and Anya spoke truths.
Anya maybe. Cordelia not so much. Yeah, I remember her quote along the lines of "Tact? That's just saying stuff that's not true. I'll pass."
But the fact is Cordelia was not (at that time) about truth telling, or even frankness (not the same thing). She was about hurting and humilating people verbally. And sure, she'd use truth when it would work. because hurtful words are much more hurtful if they have an element of truth and the pain lasts much longer. But she was certainly willing to lie or distort if the truth wasn't a good enough weapon. (Think about the first two episodes when she distorted her descriptions of Buffy's behavior - telling how Buffy attacked her and tried to kill her. She was a liar from the beginning.)
Fiona - Jun 16, 2003 10:37:12 pm PDT #5148 of 9843
Is it because they haven't had time to make each episode to fit a schedule or is just to drag it out over the year?
I have a suspicion it may be simply because there is so much tv in the States that they have to have fixed slots for shows all year, because if they were going on and off the air all the time nobody would ever find them. So it's very simple: almost all shows (except midseason replacements) start new seasons at roughly the same time of year, they all finish at roughly the same time of year, they're on at the same time of day, and it's pot luck whether you're getting a new episode or not.
I find the US system bizarre too, but then I grew up in a world where there were just three (and then four - oh my goodness was that an event!) tv channels.
Leigh - Jun 16, 2003 11:08:05 pm PDT #5149 of 9843
Nobody
She was about hurting and humilating people verbally. And sure, she'd use truth when it would work. because hurtful words are much more hurtful if they have an element of truth and the pain lasts much longer
Wallowing though I am in my OldSchool!Cordy nostalgia, I have to admit that as much as I don't like the end result, Cordy needed to head down the de-bitchifying road at some point. If they could have resisted the later urges to lobotomize her and slap the champion label on her forehead, everything would've been peachy.
Angus G - Jun 16, 2003 11:12:49 pm PDT #5150 of 9843
Roguish Laird
Cordy had attained utter perfection as a character in the "don't bone my boss" episode. There was nowhere to go from there but down I'm afraid.
Nilly - Jun 16, 2003 11:37:18 pm PDT #5151 of 9843
Swouncing
but then I grew up in a world where there were just three (and then four - oh my goodness was that an event!) tv channels.
Heh. I grew up in a world where there was only a single tv channel. The opening of a second one was a huge event (and the first time we got commercials in anything other than the movies. Before that, people used to arrive slightly early to a movie in order to not miss the commercials), the appearance of a cable-for-pay company was a huge event. I can't afford cables, so my tv has exactly 2 channels right now.
Fiona - Jun 16, 2003 11:44:09 pm PDT #5152 of 9843
I can't afford cables, so my tv has exactly 2 channels right now.
Oh no, Nilly! Channel surfing must be pretty dull in Isreal. It's bad enough for me when I'm at my parents, and have four standard British channels instead of the 20-odd we get here in Germany. Up-up-up... down-down-down... up-up-up.... etc. It's usually the TV gods telling me to go and do something more constructive with my time.
Nilly - Jun 16, 2003 11:50:16 pm PDT #5153 of 9843
Swouncing
Channel surfing must be pretty dull in Isreal.
Whenever I'm in front of a tv that has cables (around a couple of dozens of channels, sometimes more, with an extra pay), I find myself fascinated by the amount, and can't stop changing the channel (sometimes to the annoyance of the people around me), just for the 'what's on that one?' factor.
It's usually the TV gods telling me to go and do something more constructive with my time.
Well, we have lots of religious confrontations and tensions here as it is, I think that the addition of TV gods will be too much for us...