more dvr

yes, this dvr thing is addictive (the current dvr shows are on the right), especially when some recent favorite shows have been on... i mentioned the on-going heroes marathon which continues at a pace of two shows per weekday and most of the through the wormhole episodes have passed through the dvr and into the brain, but there's so much more... the outer limits and alfred hitchcock presents and animaniacs are coming about the same as heroes at about two episodes per weekday... the old hitchcocks still hold up most of the time as stories, though the social interactions and wardrobe just gets more dated all the time... some of the outer limits, like other supposedly sci-fi stories, are betrayed by western religious blind faith (as if it's the only explanation for the unknown and even aliens follow western religious) it is quite disappointing to the potential of imagination these shows are supposed to be stretching...

some shows are just tossing a few episodes out there each weekend (or even just one a week like the river, which i skipped the first time around), so they are not all-at-once marathons... and editing is destroying some of these shows... like dead like me, which is so freaking edited it is a mockery of the original... and haven, which sometimes makes me wonder if stephen king had anything to do with the show... and the original twilight zone series was last week while dated, still... and just today the latest twilight zone series ran all day long... some of those were so cheezy, going for the laughs instead of the eerie (must have had some mediocre situation comedy writers mixed in with the mediocre drama writers re-writing the old episodes and inventing a few new ones)... and amazing stories are missing from the mix though... but there is at least some twists beyond the stale drama of reality tv...

obviously, a week and i am losing so many brain cells that i am forgetting how to express myself... excuse the boring, aye?...

watching the dvr

sometimes the tv comes out of the background and actually gets most of my attention... in other words, sometimes i actually watch the screen and listen at the same time... most of today was spent catching up on the end of season one and the start of season two of heroes, a show i might still want to re-watch even if i did see every episode the first time and even if the emo-eye candy of that particular cheerleader was not on the show... the start of season two was a major disappointment as so many loose threads were left disconnected and so many story lines just got stupid (a technical term for lack of or at least incongruous imagination... maybe they were pandering to superficial ideas for audience expansion or they simply ran out of ideas), but since i can auto-record and watch on dvr whenever i feel like it, i might watch season two and three since i missed some, maybe many of those episodes the first time around...

after watching and deleting all the heroes episodes, i moved on to dead like me and animaniacs and a few others and then a favorite personality, morgan freeman... i noticed that in between pandering to religion (maybe the producers thought a pure science show would not sell well) and titillating the paranoids (a popular selling point for any media these days), through the wormhole is pretty cool... one show i decided to watch more than once was the brain hacking show as neuroscience has always been a favorite field for me... and so i wandered through the ibrain and was happy to see the possibilities for stephen hawking (who is seventy?... wow, good medical science) and others with the same needs... and i think the visual dictionary idea is another fascinating project with many great potential uses... but then there is still a lot of exploitation (might as well ask marc salem... or moshe botwinick, for that matter) in the show, as in life... still, trial and error may take a long time, but like Edison, one might get lucky now and then...