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Does anyone else just not have time for TV anymore?

TheGrimmRetails

TheGrimmRetails

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In the past ten years I have only watched one series to completion and that was Being Human (UK). And unless it's a movie I've been wanting to see for a while and I've planned to see it, I don't have patience for a lot of films either.

Recently I've been watching clips on Youtube here and there. I have never seen a full episode of Rick and Morty but I have seen plenty of clips and I'm perfectly okay with that. I don't need whole episodes of Game Of Thrones, because I can just watch the parts I liked during my break and be happy with that.
 
I know what you mean, youtube's got tons of movie/tv clips and that can be more then sufficient for a lot of people (plus its free!) Personally, I still like watching tv series except now i try and cut out filler episodes ahead of time before i begin watching.
 
TheGrimmRetails said:
In the past ten years I have only watched one series to completion and that was Being Human (UK). And unless it's a movie I've been wanting to see for a while and I've planned to see it, I don't have patience for a lot of films either.

Recently I've been watching clips on Youtube here and there. I have never seen a full episode of Rick and Morty but I have seen plenty of clips and I'm perfectly okay with that. I don't need whole episodes of Game Of Thrones, because I can just watch the parts I liked during my break and be happy with that.
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I would watch TV avidly if there were not adverts ,but now there is TV on the internet and ad blockers ^-^
 
I don’t watch tv excessively, but I usually have it on in the bedroom when I’m eating breakfast, or in the living room at night. I don’t have a lot of extra time for it either.

And I don’t use cable tv very often at all anymore, now I mostly use streaming services.
 
No time and no interest, either. Not a TV fan.
There's not much on, there's very little enjoyable enough to sit down for an hour & see. I hate the way movies have gotten longer & longer but at the same time turned into sensory hell.

There was a large projection TV in my apartment when I moved in, but I moved it out and put the parlor organ in the spot where the TV was. Believe it or not it takes up less room. Televisions are not something I have time to live with, work around, or even watch.

I owned a TV once, small b&w Curtis with a 5" screen and AM/FM radio. A hand-me-down one from dad who was using the Internet for weather. It was nice to catch the weather before going fishing, but then before long after I got it, analog broadcasting went off the air. So NOAA Weather Radio works better for that. Now I use an old Sparton tombstone radio in place of a TV. For music I'll catch some weekend shows, for entertainment I wait until they replay the old-school radio plays (again weekends), during the week if I want the news I catch the bulletin from CBS, the BBC, or what-not at the top of the hour. Shortwave means I can follow stuff all around the world and on AM I can cover the whole local area. It's not perfect but it doesn't cost me anything to run except the electricity, and instead of a satellite dish or antenna I can just hang a long copper wire out the window.
 
I have plenty of time.

What I dont have is PATIENCE.

Patience for the infinite series of ads that make up TV now. UNSKIPPABLE ads. Commercials were bad enough as a kid back in the 80s and 90s, but now they've gotten downright absurd. Any time I am for whatever reason sitting in the living room with the others and commercials come on, I often ask them "How in the world can you even WATCH this? There's so many ads with barely any show!"

As it is, when it comes to watching stuff, I stick to Youtube. Or to be specific, I stick to Youtube while running a suite of adblockers so that I never see any ads ever.

And as far as the LENGTH of stuff watched goes, well... something I realized about TV and movies is that a lot of them are very, very "padded". A certain run time is expected and needs to be filled... even if it's just filled with fluff. Creators on Youtube dont have to do that. Many of my favorite series will do things like have some episodes that are only 3 minutes long, because that's all they need to tell that part of the story. A lot of TV shows, on the other hand, could BE 3 minutes long if you cut out all the fluff, but they add like 15 minutes of padding to it instead (and then 12 minutes of stupid commercials).
 
cornman said:
Personally, I still like watching tv series except now i try and cut out filler episodes ahead of time before i begin watching.
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I did this with the MCU. I still haven't followed through on it yet but I only want to watch the movies that specifically lead up to Avengers Endgame.
 
I never have a lot of time for TV either.
Seems I'm always doing something, but, not sitting and watching TV.
I do watch some at night before I go to bed. There are certain series I like and You Tube
along with some streaming.

As far as commercials, I set the DVR to record something I want to see and watch it when I want.
I can fast forward through the commercials that way.
 
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