22
2008
Stolen TV, or What Do You Mean You Haven’t Uploaded Season 2 of Carnivale?
posted by Carl Newman at 11:09 pm.
I don’t steal music (anymore). It’s unnecessary, I have all the music in the world. But I do steal TV online. Like, all the time.
What I’m missing is more quality television. I own Deadwood and Rome, and about half of the Sopranos. All of the Joss Whedon duo (Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Firefly). Also a fucking brilliant Canadian show (Oxymoron) called Slings & Arrows. And the Osbournes (SHAAAAAROOON!).
But it’s just not enough. There’s so much more out there. Sports Night? My So Called Life? (Hey, Fuck you, that show rocks). And most recently for me, Carnivale.
Carnivale rocks, it’s like Lost if the occasionally explained a thing or two. Anyways, I’ve been watching the complete first season in short bursts on Youtube all week. Of course, then I saw that the one and only video blog I subscribe to on youtube recently updated, so I had to watch that. (Hail Satan with Picklejar).
When I finally finished season 1, each episode in five or six parts, which is a lot of loading and searching and viewing, I couldn’t and can’t find season 2.
And I realized that there’s something simple that I could do, the way people used to get TV for free. Without this hellish, “internet.” It used to be called, the library. So I trekked out, and they had it.
Libraries don’t get enough press really. As we start to put the internet into our blood (not literally (yet)) we forget all about the things we used to do. I checked out movies once a week from the library in the summers when I was a kid. And then I just completely forgot about it.
I don’t think I watch TV like normal people (replace “watch TV” with just about anything and the statement still stands). I’m looking at character development, dialogue structure, and plot movement. The movement of intertwining story arcs, the balance of character focus and personality. This stuff is fascinating to me. I see a scene in Deadwood, and then I think, “That’s interesting that they chose to have Big Dan be the moral compass for the Doc’s character, while the Doc, in turn, serves as the perfect counterpoint to Bullock’s naivety.”
This is a ridiculous way to watch TV. But I love it. And people say TV is a way to tune out, but I disagree.
Now, where’s the new season of The Riches?
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Veronica (Veronica) says:
(Posted April 27th, 2008 at 2:13 pm)
surfthechannel.com
screw libraries.
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Lily LaBute (Lily LaBute) says:
(Posted April 23rd, 2008 at 8:25 am)
i completely agree. all i do these days is watch every show online. unfortunately people have tagged me “antisocial”. but its only because im going to harper this semester! and ive learned a lot from 12 seasons of south park.