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So far, Defiance sucks. It's a paint by numbers pile of poo. It looks like it was created by a committee of clueless frustrated filmmaker wannabe video game designers. It's a poorly done rip-off of Firefly and various other things.

 

I can't believe they cancelled Alphas to help pay for this crap.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9oh8GbyJmI

That's a bummer.

 

I never watched Alphas, had to much going on when it started to add it to my list of shows. Sheldon wasn't happy about it being cancelled:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Orx3L_CKXlU

Sheldon wasn't happy about it being cancelled . . .

 

That episode is how I found out the show was cancelled. I still thought it was coming back. I hope that episode alerted a lot of other people who also didn't know it was cancelled. Maybe enough people complaining can get it uncancelled.

Beware of DVR storage creep. It's hard to avoid filling with stuff "I'll watch later" or FISH (first in, still here). On my old TiVo I had AFI top 100 movies which were over a year old - and still unwatched. On my current cableco DVR I have some Doctor Who Christmas specials (recorded over Christmas) that I need to clean out ASAP.

Yeah, ran into that on the DirecTV DVR. Of course it had a built in limit as I couldn't add more space to it

 

A number of shows are nearing end-of-season which should help as they're mostly hour long shows that I'm current on, so I'll be able to catch up on the other shows like That 70's show.

 

I've also been watching The Simpsons, though I'm not trying to watch them in order as I'd probably end up with hundreds of episodes recorded before the first one shows up. I'd stopped watching them years ago, but caught an episode when I was setting up the Mac mini DVR - I laughed so hard I added it to the schedule. I began watching them when they were shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show, you can see a snippet on the end of one of my favorite TUS skits:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7f4Vv9ubKs

 

In the skit "Joe Blow" is the voice of Homer and the lady with the black cap that sits down next to him is the voice of Marge.

 

I've been using iTV Shows 2 on my iPad to track the classic series I've been watching. Once I've seen them all I take them off the schedule. WKRP just came off. It was fun to rewatch, and as a plus I caught a number of episodes that I hadn't seen before.

I gave up on the Simpsons years ago. I honestly don't care if they've gotten funny again - they've simply gotten tiresome.