RIP TV

I should begin by saying that I love television shows. They have the potential to deliver engrossing narratives with casts of rich, multifaceted character that movies just don't have the scale to. They are awesome. However what is not awesome is that I have to wait a week to continue watching this engrossing narrative. Also, while I am watching said engrossing narrative, my drooling will interrupted by a large black man on a horse to try to sell deodorant to men. This is not awesome.

Maybe twenty years ago, these interruptions were tolerated. But twenty years ago, one couldn't sit down with their laptop and watch the same programming, without the nauseating commercials and weekly interruptions. It doesn't make sense. As I write this blog, I have a tab of episode 5 season 2 of The Sopranos paused. If I wanted to, I could pull up Hulu to watch the latest Daily Show, ESPN3 to watch any game, or Youtube to see anything. When I could do all this in 120 seconds, why I should I suffer through a modern television broadcast.

Television must evolve. They live now, but in ten years? Twenty? Fifty? It is easier than ever to go online and the future will only bring further progress. These mega corporations that control the programming must adjust their ways. If not, then when I am some creepy old dude walking through a museum, I will see kids asking their parents what that thing that dosen' project holograms is.