Hmm, this may simply add more weight to the "TV's for DVD only" argument, but The West Wing, The Sopranos, Angel (well this season anyway) and (every now and then) Alias are fun shows to watch.
Futurama was good of course, and I enjoy new episodes of the Simpsons ... and there's always the Movie Show on SBS (although not for much longer in it's current form). I wonder if the ratio of good vs crap television has really changed at all. Subjectivity aside, TV has always been pretty crap ... perhaps it's more accute because we have so many competing forms of entertainment operating over the same or similar mediums (DVD, vid games, web). Hmm. So many of the weekly shows I watch have been cancelled or are close to being cancelled. Ah well, time to start reading the TV guide and catch some interesting docos and weird foreign films. :) If you're interested in injecting a bit of fun back into TV, I suggest buying a digital set top box and turning on the closed captions feature - it's hilarious. :) Cheers, Tobes. > ---------- > From: Mark Secker > Sent: Monday, 3 May 2004 10:49 AM > To: WAMUG Mailing List > Subject: Re: BigBorther 4 and the Mac > > >On Sun, 2004-05-02 at 21:46, Matthew Healey wrote: > > > >> rational well-thought-out television > > > >I'm a little puzzled. Did we ever have rational, well thought out > >television in the first place? I realise there are degrees of bad (I > >recently got rid of my TV, having found that TV had passed the point > >where I had any interest in watching it even occasionally), but was it > >ever actually genuinely rational and well thought out? > > > > it has (had?) it's moments.... but these days it's even getting hard > to find a program that is genuinely offensive in ways other than > total banality (insert soaps like H&AW and so called "reality" > programs). > > Until Apple comes up with a 48" Powerbook I'll keep my TV for watching > DVDs. > > > > > -- > ~ > Mark Secker Computer Support Officer > ph#6488 1855 (ECEL) <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > University of Western Australia - CRICOS Provider No. 00126G > ~ > "Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible." > - Miguel de Unamuno > "It takes an idiot to do cool things.... that's why it's cool" > - Haruhara Haruka (FLCL) > > <http://ecel-mark.ecel.uwa.edu.au/~marksecker/index.htm> (sometimes works) > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > WAMUG is powered by Stalker CommuniGatePro > >
