We’ve Got Nothing Better To Do Than Watch TV and Have a Couple Of Brews

We’re gonna have a TV Party tonight, alright!
We’re gonna have a TV party tonight, alright!

(All right, enough with the Black Flag already)

I haven’t had a television party since the days of Melrose Place. I used to have a bunch of friends over to watch it each week, mostly guy friends of mine that didn’t want to be caught dead having a Melrose Place addiction. They had a rep to protect, you know. Regardless, we’d kick it at my place a few blocks off the beach on Casitas St in Santa Barbara and watch bad TV, drink a lot of Guinness (aka Vitamin G), eat pizza and play darts during commercials. It was awesome.

A bunch of our friends here watch Heroes. We finally decided to try having Heroes parties here like I used to have back in the day with Melrose Place. It was a lot of fun to have people over, but it wasn’t quite the same. Why? Because of TiVo. In the days of Melrose Place, there was no TiVo. We all had fun, but we also had to come together between commercials and actually watch the show. Not so with TiVo.

With the DVR technology, the well meaning, usually fun but terminally rude person (every party has one, right?) has no reason to Stop. Talking. Already. So he yammered on all night long, continually causing us to have to hit pause or rewind. It was pretty irritating – I want to have fun, but I also want to see the damn show already! Normally I’d just watch the show over him and so would everyone else – but he is one of those who just gets louder when he is being ignored. Sigh. His wife was pretty annoyed too, so she may “have a little talk” with him. If so, we’ll try it again next week. If not, no big deal – we’ll watch Heroes anyway.

Anyone else stuck on Heroes? I have a few shows on my DVR top priority list. Right now they are: Heroes, House MD, Lost and The Dresden Files. What are yours? I must say I’m happy so many plot holes got filled last night on Heroes. Finally, we discover unequivocally that Claire’s adopted dad is not the total scum bag we thought he might be. Lost dropped a few points on the priority list this season – they have been stringing out the unresolved plot lines on that show for far too long, in my opinion. Last week helped a little, but they have a long way to go.

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