Why the Olympics suck
So I tried watching some of the Olympics tonight and the experience was as it has been the last several times I tuned in to try and watch some of this years games. It went something like this:
Click. Ooh… bobsledding. Bobsledding is good. One minute later: commercial.. hmm I wonder what else is on.
Click. PBS has something about neutrinos on… hmm yes, 3 “flavors” of neutrinos… OK, I can’t take anymore, and I eventually wander back over to NBC.
Click. OK, I guess they are doing a back story on one of the athletes. Something about a kid that was disfigured and had surgery or something. OK, that’s sad, but ooh X-Men 2 is on FX.
Click. Have I seen X-Men 2? This looks vaguely familiar… Bleh, a commercial. Curse you Tivo for not getting The Daily Show last night. Lemme check the Olympics again.
Click. Oh look more commercials on NBC. I’ll try and wait it out… a lot of commercials… whatever, X-Men is back on.
Click. I’m pretty certain I’ve seen X-Men 2. Why are the good mutants teamed up with the bad mutants again? Wolverine pumps a chick full of adamantium. Wicked. Commercial. Time to check on the Olympics.
Click. Oh look more commercials. I’ll wait… ah 1500m skating. Lot’s of talking about who is expected to post a really good time is order to put the pressure on who… oh for God’s sake, please skate or something. Two guys skate for a minute and a half. It was apparently a disappointing time for the American guy. Looks like they are going to cut to another commercial. Yeah, this is riveting. I’m going upstairs.
I’d really like to watch the Olympics. I even like Curling. Sadly, I have yet to see 10 consecutive minutes of any event without the interruption of a commercial, or the touching story of how some athlete made it to Torino against all odds, or being promised that the really interesting bit will be on during our “prime time” coverage later tonight. I don’t really care enough to suffer through 2 hours of B.S. so I can experience the 10 interesting minutes of coverage. I’m funny that way.
Welcome to teh suck that is having the Olympics on tape delay. That’s why I hate them when they aren’t in our time zone (or one time zone away, like Atlanta/Calgary).