I love syndication. The two best inventions (beyond the wheel & the jaws of life) have to be the DVR & syndication. They just make my life so dang happy. Without the beauty that is syndication I never would have discovered The Big Bang Theory, How I Met Your Mother, NCIS, or, my newest addiction, Criminal Minds (every day on A&E!). How did we survive before shows were rebroadcast in deliciously addictive marathons?
See, I'm a slow adapter when it comes to TV shows - partially because television is designed around insanely slow character arcs that take years to develop and I get too impatient to stick with a show that long. I need growth! I need resolution! (Never could watch Lost.) Coming to a show after there are years of episodes in the can, when I can watch as many as I want in a single binge and see characters growing and changing... it's the only way to fly.
But that's just me. What about you? Has syndication made your life a giant bubble of happy? Or am I the only one?
See, I'm a slow adapter when it comes to TV shows - partially because television is designed around insanely slow character arcs that take years to develop and I get too impatient to stick with a show that long. I need growth! I need resolution! (Never could watch Lost.) Coming to a show after there are years of episodes in the can, when I can watch as many as I want in a single binge and see characters growing and changing... it's the only way to fly.
But that's just me. What about you? Has syndication made your life a giant bubble of happy? Or am I the only one?
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Netflix and Hulu have put me in my happy place. We only have one TV, and unless I desire to watch kiddo shows or video games I am out of luck. But I feel you on the older shows. It just stinks when you find one that's still going on and you catch up to the prime time story line. Then you can't fast forward through commercials. Got hooked on Bones that way.
