Rou

I hate being interrupted when I watch TV. No by people, but by commercials. I don't have a TiVO or DVR, but I should get one. Mostly, I flip channels during breaks. Or I watch HBO or something that is commercial free.

I'm pretty good at timing my flips back to the original station. I very rarely miss more than a few seconds of the show.

A lot of people are like that I suppose. Or the TiVO is helping them avoid commercials automatically. I say that because recently I've seen more and more little stupid commercials running DURING the show.

The annoying fuckers suddenly pop up in the lower right hand side and take up a quarter of the screen. They overlay whatever you're watching, and occasionally, when you're really lucky, they have SOUND!! that overrides the shows sound. How wonderful.

The past few weeks, I've seen a ton of these. I don't know if I'm just lucky or if there are actually more of them. Fox is running a Eragon blitz to help promote that movies release. Another station is doing Cold Case. Spike is doing Video Game awards and Sci-fi is doing non stop ads for the Lost Room.

Now, you may say that the ads are working because a) I watched them and b) I remembered them. This is true. But there is a flaw here. I will not watch the indicated shows. I refuse. Maybe that's not true of all their viewers, but it certainly is for me.

I just can't stand those stupid little pop ups. Can't avoid them, can't ignore them, can't stand them.

I can't imagine why I've taken to watching shows online instead.