Television is like my family. I know that sounds awful how could you love television more
than your family members? I don’t,
but my love for television is probably larger than it should be. I love television, but the more I think
about television I start to realize why I love television. I watch it for SportsCenter every
morning; I turn it on when I get home from school; I even have it on while I do
other homework. But how much of
the watching is me paying attention and how much of it is just background
noise. The more I thought about
it, the more I realized that I really only pay attention to the television when
a show I am really invested in is on.
I have never missed and episode of Psych when it is airing, every
Wednesday I watch Supernatural, and every Thursday I watch Parks and
Recreation. I watch these shows
live because I am willing to wait through commercials to see these shows. The shows are interesting to me and I
want to see them unfold. I enjoy
the commercial breaks because I like to go over what just happened in my head
and think what will happen next.
But there are some shows that I am not willing to sit
through commercials to watch.
Modern Family is funny, but I don’t want to watch the commercials. I love the characters on NCIS (I get it
from my parents) but I am not willing to take an entire 17 minuets of
commercials with the show. Same
thing with Bones and Law and Order: SVU (I have a thing for crime dramas). With these shows the gap-filling of the
commercials is not as effective for me.
I just want to know what happens and I am not willing to wait and entire
week to find out what happens next.
These shows I will typically DVR or watch over Netflix. But there are other people out there
that are willing to watch commercials to see these shows as they air.
I guess I really only “accept” the gift of television with
shows I am really invested in.
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