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Battlestar Galactica Finale: Its Not Too Late For a Post Mortem
**Warning! Here there be spoilers**
You might think its too late to dissect Battlestar Galactica, since the final episode aired over a week ago, (Friday, March 20) but considering that Hulu and SciFi only uploaded the two hour finale over the weekend, I don’t care what you think. The fact is that, I canceled cable and I’ve been at the mercy of the idiots at SciFi (Syfy) who have kept me a week behind for the entirety of the last half of the last season.
I really enjoyed Battlestar Galactica, but there were times when I wasn’t sure I could watch anymore. There have been points in all the seasons in which I almost gave up, but its the characters that always brought me back. I couldn’t abandon Starbuck, the Adamas, Helo, even the ever narcissistic Baltar. Those season finales always made it worth the trouble and had a tendency to blow your socks off. read more
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Cable TV Ala Carte: Who’s in Your Top Five?
Does anyone, who is not a coma victim, watch the Golf Channel? Is anyone without insomnia watching HSN or QVC? Isn’t the need to buy useless crap fulfilled by the Internet now?
There are at least 15 channels in everybody’s cable TV lineup that are completely useless. Admit it, for $60 a month, you are paying for a lot of content that you’ll never watch. Ratings are sinking since the web has arrived. Ratings have even taken serious blows since the highly adopted use of TIVO and DVRs. Most people in the know don’t watch a talking head for 20 minutes to find out which mission critical toxin “might” be present in their cupboards. Anyone with half a brain knows that real content today is delivered on-demand and chosen to reflect your interests.
Gone are the days of spending a half an hour with your eyes glued a scrolling marquee on the lower portion of ESPN. Today you check your phone or ESPN’s own web site for the score. Today you can use your computer or mobile phone and have all of of the day’s news fed directly to you. So why are we still paying for cable as a complete service when we only want the programming we actually watch? read more