"I have the higher ground!"

[jaina]

I'm being good and not reading any Olympics results until I watch them tonight. I fricking hate this prime-time roundup. Why can't we have daytime showings of things besides hockey and curling? (Seriously, that's all there ever is. Hockey and curling. AGH!)

sirrogue has been hanging all of his ship action figures (X-Wing, A-Wing, etc) from the ceiling of the second floor. It looks geekishly awesome, and yay, more shelf space! Now all we need is a filing cabinet.

And we're finally caught up to the current season of Gilmore Girls; I downloaded them all yesterday and we've watched the first three. It's very weird to have the topical references actually be, y'know, topical. Um, I don't want any spoilers, but can someone please reassure me that Rory's horrible Lindsay Lohan hair goes away? It makes me cringe. :(

Tomorrow I'm going to scrapbook with blusurfer! We're going to the store by her house, because neither of us ever accomplishes anything in our own home.

Comments

[portnoyslp.livejournal.com]

Thinking about it, I think the reason they only show hockey and curling during the day is pretty straightforward -- both sports have long matches that aren't easily condensed into the evening's 20-minute recap of an event. Watching an entire curling match is actually fairly interesting, since there's some built-in suspense as the match progresses and nears the end. But the first 20 minutes watching it is stultifying until you pick up what's going on, so you're going to lose your audience if you do it at the wrong time of day.

On the flipside, Super-G, slalom, bobsled, etc. are all quick sports that can be easily ripped into 90-second chunks, broken up with commercials, and entrants that we won't care about edited out without much worry of boring the primetime audience and causing them to check out what's happening on House. So, save the really quick, attention-grabbing sports for primetime, when competition is tough and you can edit the competition into a story.