Hmm, lookee there

I guess I can get S3 as it airs for $15 dollars in standard definition rather than HD, which kind of boggles the mind.  I mean, $10 extra for better definition?  Really?  I was looking it up to check that SD vs. HD was what I thought it was, and people were saying how SD would look how my TV looked before HD, which sent me down a lovely little nostalgia trail.

You guys remember the days before digital TV?  You know what annoys me about TV now?  (And yeah, I don't have cable so my experience may not be that of the general population)  There's either good reception, or no reception.  There was a time when if I wanted to watch my show come hell or high water, I could do that.  Even if it was completely snow and I could only just hear the voices, I could watch that station if I wanted to.  I miss that.

I'm still not sure if I'm gonna pay that $15 dollars (I could do, I got a gift card a while back that will cover it) but it's cool to have worked down from $25.
 

Castle thoughts

It's a bit late, as usual, but I only saw the finale recently.  It was cute and there was Pete and I don't have a whole lot else to say, but-
Like a lot of people, I'm annoyed about the ending.  It's seems rather cheap.  I mean, who's watching Castle at this point and thinking, I like this show and all, but I won't come back unless there's a cliffhanger?  See, if a show is going to have a big storyline that it takes them more than one episode to tell- more than a season to tell, even- I don't mind when there's a break in the middle and it happens to coincide with the finale (Longmire is a good example of doing this well).  Cliffhangers don't bother me in the "OMG but what happens next?!?" sense.  They bother me in the "I have fabricated something unexpected and cruel in order to upset you for several months, just because I can," sense.  This was pretty bad in that regard.  I know it probably connects back to the business with Bracken somehow, but it was also completely and totally unnecessary.


That said, I enjoyed this last season, and I've heard that it had some of the series' best ratings ever.  Hopefully that will tell other show runners that answering the endless will they or won't they question does not mean death for their shows.  Which would be good, because will they or won't they bores the hell out of me.

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