No, not cool down timings for my paladin cast sequence (not that I use a macro). Those numbers are about what I measured for show to commercial intervals last night while watching the season premiere of Heroes.
Now, I’ll be honest and say I didn’t have a stop watch. Instead I looked at the clock when the show would start up and then switch to commercial. Several times I counted about eight minutes of show to about three minutes of commercial. I didn’t count the whole way through, but that seemed to be the pattern.
Frustrating.
But then I realized that it is a lot like reading a comic book – at least back when I used to read comic books. You’d get a couple of pages of story then a full page of ads for Sea Monkeys, X-Ray Glasses, Spy Kits and other gadgets.
Is that intentional?
The other pattern it seems to follow – at least as far as bouncing around from people grouping to people grouping – is that of a soap opera. Every bit leaves you hanging with some sort of, “Oh mah gawd! I just have to see what happens next!” drama only to slap you in the face by returning from commercial and jumping into another part of the story. It makes you anxious about getting back to the previous part only to get another cliffhanger on this story thread.
On the other end of the spectrum you have House which seemed to have longer parts of show with about as long for commercials as Heroes had. Heck, I think the first part of the show ran for about 20 minutes before they put in a commercial.
I MAKE WITH TEH SPOILSORZ IN THE NEXT PARTZ, K?
The premiere was pretty decent if not a bit slow in parts. It still had moments of funny but for the most part attempted to be a little more serious. I was surprised it ended with him getting out the psychiatric hospital, but I guess they wanted to get him back to the hospital where the bread and butter of the show happens.
He’s drug-free (aside from what was given prescribed to him), seems to be pain-free, ghost-free and seems to be quitting, according to the preview for next week. I’m curious to see where they’re going with all this.
NO MORE SPOILSORZ AFTER HEER
Good TV so far, even if one of the shows is weighed down by advertising. I’m looking forward to The Mentalist tonight where the previews show him quitting (do you sense a trend here?) because they’re taking his team off the Red John trail.
I watched House, enjoyed it quite a bit; I didn’t get to the end of Heroes, though… Fell asleep in the last 30 minutes. I’ve got them both on PVR, however, so I’ll rewatch and skip over the 3 minute commercial intervals.
I like your take on Heroes – it does have a “comic book” feel to it; which makes sense, given they gave a Nod to the X-Men back in Season 2 (?).
Ooo spoiler alert needed for the House stuff there. And, just to illustrate different tastes — I thought last night’s episode was utterly the best House EVAR.
I loved the SeaMonkey ads…. Those were creepy.
Part of the reason why I just don’t watch tv anymore. Commercials are just too annoying.
Yeah I guess I should have warned against spoilers. Yes it was really good, it just humanized him too much for my liking.
When I tune in to watch House, I want to see clever banter, shocking humor, House calling people idiots while solving the issues at hand. I guess it’s a comfortable pattern and I’m not sure I’ll like the direction the show is going but I’ll see I guess.
Ultimately, he did end up fixing things, so it was the same sort of thing.. almost.
@creep — that’s why DVR (TiVo etc) is probably THE best invention since sliced bread. We don’t watch anything we haven’t taped anymore — or when we do, we cue it up, pause it for 10-15 minutes, and then come back ready to flip through adverts.
They’re annoying as it is in terms of action interruption, but at least we don’t have to *watch* them
Yeah I keep forgetting to get a DVR. So many things on the list, but I’ve gotta keep that in mind, I’m sure I’ve missed some good explosions on Mythbusters.