[ SECRET POST #3056 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3056 ⌋

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Sorry this took so long to answer, juggling preparing/eating dinner and answering other posts

[dethtoll]

Practically every application of television you can think of is harmed by how television works. It is by nature non-interactive, unlike the internet, and therefore short of changing the channel -- which you may not want to do if you're watching a show -- you cannot avoid advertising breaks, which are just long enough to be irritating, but just short enough that if you leave the room to go to the bathroom or grab a snack, it will likely be over before you can return.

And it is this advertising that is the driving force for everything that's broadcast. Everything is packaged as entertainment -- news, education, politics, etc. -- and divided up into segments before being shoved at the viewer. Your only interaction with the television is to change the channel or turn it off. It is difficult to learn anything of value through a television broadcast, because educational shows will plow on without you even if you have trouble understanding a concept. (Bit like an uncaring professor who erases the board before you're done copying it...)

In terms of a pure entertainment show, such as a drama, it's a terrible medium for directors and writers, who have to operate within the constraints of a time slot, which is actually far shorter than a single hour thanks to the need for commercials. This means the pacing can be way off, characterization can be curtailed, plots can be stretched far beyond what would be acceptable in a movie, etc. To say nothing of procedural shows which almost by nature are the same thing every week with very little actual character development from episode to episode (Criminal Minds is a really good example of this, the pattern it took was so obvious even my mom noticed, and she doesn't notice shit.)

Re: Sorry this took so long to answer, juggling preparing/eating dinner and answering other posts

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You forgot how they treat movies. Nevemind the original pacing, we're gonna cut for breaks!

One channel in my country is infamous for how they treat weekend movies. They not only have the weirdest timing for breaks (a few seconds into a new scene, during an action sequence, the middle of conversation, the middle of a sentence), at the half-hour point they'll break for news and weather for 15 minutes. So we essentially get

15 min movie
5 minute break
15 min movies
5 min break
10-15 min news and weather
5 min break
rest of the movie in 15 min intervals

At least the other channels TRY to break at logical points.