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Aug. 3rd, 2012 09:35 amTwo viewing and six hours of my life later I finally have something positive to say about The Dark Knight Rises:
It wasn't in 3-D
The bad: my a/c broke this week. I was lucky it wasn't 100+ degrees. Still, it was 83 in my house over night and that really sucked.
The good: I didn't have to get a new unit and the repair was relatively cheap.
Olympic coverage continues to disgust me. I had some success watching the Women's Gymnastics Team competition on the website, but all attempts to view the Men's All Around utterly failed. I cannot comprehend how NBC came to the decision to show the freaking pommel horse for 6+ guys, and have YET to show a single still rings routine. We saw, 3? high bars in all around and none in the team competition. ARGH. It's SO frustrating.
Here's another thing: swimming is boring to watch, unless we're getting the under water view. Seriously. I'm sure some people would disagree with me, but you can only see heads, feet, hands, and maybe butts. It's not like skiing downhill or running or boating where the action is visible. It doesn't help matters that I'm not a fan of racing of any type in the first place.
You know what I'd like? I'd like to see ALL of an event. I'd like for the website to work. I'd like for there to be a schedule that says, hey y'all we're showing this sport at this time, and have that be the only thing on. I'd like for there to be MORE actual OLYMPICS in the coverage and less of the fucking STORIES.
Everyone on earth has a story. EVERYONE. Every single person on this planet has had to overcome adversity in some manner or another. So QUIT trying to tug the heartstrings with 20 minute packages on an event that if you aired all the competitors [excluding judges deliberation] would take 20 fucking minutes.
Quit filling the deliberations with packages. Hey, here's something for you, if an event is PRE-RECORDED quit showing the deliberations! Move on to the next routine!
SHOW AN ATHLETE THAT ISN'T AMERICAN!!
The only event I enjoy the dithering about in is diving. But that's only because they are essentially naked and I'll never see hip bones or back dimples as awesome as those until the next Olympics.
... that may be all. I've had a long, hard week. I'm ready for it to be over.
It wasn't in 3-D
The bad: my a/c broke this week. I was lucky it wasn't 100+ degrees. Still, it was 83 in my house over night and that really sucked.
The good: I didn't have to get a new unit and the repair was relatively cheap.
Olympic coverage continues to disgust me. I had some success watching the Women's Gymnastics Team competition on the website, but all attempts to view the Men's All Around utterly failed. I cannot comprehend how NBC came to the decision to show the freaking pommel horse for 6+ guys, and have YET to show a single still rings routine. We saw, 3? high bars in all around and none in the team competition. ARGH. It's SO frustrating.
Here's another thing: swimming is boring to watch, unless we're getting the under water view. Seriously. I'm sure some people would disagree with me, but you can only see heads, feet, hands, and maybe butts. It's not like skiing downhill or running or boating where the action is visible. It doesn't help matters that I'm not a fan of racing of any type in the first place.
You know what I'd like? I'd like to see ALL of an event. I'd like for the website to work. I'd like for there to be a schedule that says, hey y'all we're showing this sport at this time, and have that be the only thing on. I'd like for there to be MORE actual OLYMPICS in the coverage and less of the fucking STORIES.
Everyone on earth has a story. EVERYONE. Every single person on this planet has had to overcome adversity in some manner or another. So QUIT trying to tug the heartstrings with 20 minute packages on an event that if you aired all the competitors [excluding judges deliberation] would take 20 fucking minutes.
Quit filling the deliberations with packages. Hey, here's something for you, if an event is PRE-RECORDED quit showing the deliberations! Move on to the next routine!
SHOW AN ATHLETE THAT ISN'T AMERICAN!!
The only event I enjoy the dithering about in is diving. But that's only because they are essentially naked and I'll never see hip bones or back dimples as awesome as those until the next Olympics.
... that may be all. I've had a long, hard week. I'm ready for it to be over.
