first off i have to say i dont watch much "regular" tv anymore because im so sick of the over saturation from advertisements.

i watch movie channels or dvds etc mostly.

the dancing/ scrolling logos are an insult to people who in general are smart enough to know what IS coming on next because were tuned in.

ive written letters to get this process stopped because it really ruins the viewing experience sometimes its so stupid and annoying its distracting in the worst way.

so i encourage all of you who watch regular tv to write to your networks telling them to stop the animated logos, or they will loose more viewers.

a written letter is taken alot more serious then any calls or emails.

remember it started with the semi transparent logo in the corners, then the split screening so you can get a "quick news update" while seeing blurry credits roll by at triple speed.

this might sound like a silly rant, but i do consider it a form of disrespect to their viewers that for the most part pay for tv through cable.

and its only getting worse, remember when HBO and other "pay channels" had maybe 5 minutes of previews between non-stop movies?

now if you watch a show like the sopranos or dead like me the "hour" show is only 40 mins and they make you watch 20 mins for the OTHER shows your going to see next or in the near future.
im sorry but thats just stupid and overly annoying, so i tape what i plan to watch and just fast foward the ads and crap i dont need and have 20 mins free after that.

Okay I finally watched an episode for the first time last night. Once you get past (which isn't hard at all <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />) the fact that its a TV adventure/drama and not a survival documentary it's not too bad. Action, adventure, mystery and of course good lookin women, that's enough for me to watch another episode. I'm not going to be nominating it for any awards but it's certainly better than a lot of the other junk on the tube these days like all of the "not so reality" shows.

Ohhh I agree SO MUCH about the animated ads and the logos at the bottom of the screen!
They are the most annoying things!!!

I got hooked into watching it last night because a preview showed a knife thrown into a chair (How did a wooden backed chair get on the airplane?) next to where someone was sitting (Also another wooden chair! Those of you that fly regularly have got to tell me why airplanes are using wooden chairs.).

First off, the knife was way too flexible and the blade design looked like a kitchen knife. The knife wielder then kicks open an aluminum box that contains what looked like the Knife Channels "60 knives for $22.00". They were chincy looking knives (I do not know the high end market well and may be insulting some quality knife makers, but all the knives had that high sheen on the blade that are a trademark of low quality, high luster Pakistani knives.), but I was hooked, wanting to know this guys background.

I should have quit watching when this pimple head went into the woods to catch and slit the throat of a wild pig with his knife in his hand instead of attaching it to a stick for use a thrusting spear, but I didn't. Well, the dingleberry comes back with a pig after some misadventures and yes its throat had been slit, and the knife was still not attached to a stick

The real idiocy of the writing (They know most people seem to lose the brains they were born with once television starts defining reality.) comes at the end of the show where it shows the guy was in a wheelchair for 4 years before the crash, happened to wake up laying on the sand after the crash, and got up and just started walking on legs that had not supported weight for 4 years.

Beyond the above, it now seems everyone in the series has a knife because pimple head saw fit to bring such a large quantity with him. The ?main? so-so woman with the ?level? head on her was shown wearing her knife near the front so that it kind of settled on the inside of her thigh. Kinsey must be turning over in his grave trying to get out so he can choke the banality out of the writers of this crap.

They had a couple of ghost like appearances by a President Bush lookalike (See, I told you it was an evil President cloning dinosaurs to seek out weapons of mass destruction.) who must have had weak kidneys or a bladder problem because he kept disappearing into the bushes(Small "b", not his relatives.).

I have gotten more entertainment banging my head against a door jamb and in the process resecured some of the nails, than I got from the "Lost" program last night.

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Come on now ... don't hold back. Tell me how you really feel! <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

What is funny is that anyone can exist on this planet, let alone on this continent, and then pretend to be ignorant as to what crap this show obviously is. I saw the previews, I recognized it as crapola, and I tuned it out. Deliberately. To then sit there and complain about it seems pointless. The solution is easy: If it stinks, then don't watch, and it will hopefully go away.

But then again I thought the same about "Survivor". I still believe that the people who watch this "reality TV" crap will eventually inbreed so thoroughly that they will remove themselves from the gene pool --but that may take some time. Meanwhile, I console myself with PBS.

Still waiting with bated breath for "TOUCHING THE VOID".

Regards, Vince

Norad45:

It was the knife "hook" that sucked me in that one time. I know movie makers use pnuematic devices for "throwing" knives, but I was hoping for a halfway plausible bit of entertainment.

Oh well, back to beating my head on door jambs.

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Well, actually, Jayne just said that Vera needed oxygen "around her" to fire. He didn't specify that it had anything to do with the ammo, just the gun. It's in the future, so who knows what the inner mechanics of that rifle looked like. Maybe in a vacuum the barometric regulators that help correct projectile flight path for altitude or atmospheric composition and/or pressure on different worlds would get confused and feed bad info to the main trajectory processor and the gun might jam. (In another post, I mentioned that, as a lifelong Star Trek fan, I can rationalize anything. <img src="/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />)

What actually bothers me is that, with the rifle in the suit, Jayne couldn't realistically aim with any accuracy, yet their lives depended on him making a long shot with incredible precision. Bringing to bear my amazing skills at making up explanations, I'll just have to assume Vera had the ability to plug into some sort of HUD in Jayne's suit. <img src="/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

Stay safe,
J.T.

Yah, you are good. You should work for Bush!

No matter how you cut it, it's an awkward moment in the series. If it's just a stupid mistake, it's hard to believe that something that basic would go uncaught by anyone involved, on the other hand, if it was intentional, more explanation was certainly called for.

However, I'm willing to cut Whedon a little slack for being a pioneer (as far as TV) in portraying the vacuum of space as silent, no matter what's crashing, blowing up, or "swooshing" past the camera. I have to assume that every other series/movie knew better, but just couldn't resist putting sound effects in anyway, assuming we were all to stupid to catch it.