Remember how I whined, bitched and moaned about not being able to watch “The Pacific” because I don’t have HBO, and then I told you that I’d learned I could watch it anyway online, which was great? Remember?
Well, that’s no longer the case. I just went to try to watch the second installment (the 3rd premieres tomorrow night, I think), and “watch” wasn’t one of the options. The best I could get was a short written synopsis.
So, it appears that there isn’t any such thing as a free lunch, after all…
$14 per month, how much do you spend a day on coffee.
I reckon that’s why cable channels like HBO and Showtime are called premium channels. We quit subscribing to the movie channels a long while ago. We never watched the movies, other than HBO’s series Six Feet Under.
Just last year, the NFL wanted to jack up Time Warner’s cable rates by forcing them to carry the NFL channel on basic cable. In my opinion, the NFL channel should be part of a premium sports package!
Hulu was allowed to show only the first episode of the 2nd season of Mad Men…it was a teaser. You got teased.
I subscribed just for this series, I haven’t found anything else worth watching. This includes the three months of free Showtime. Once this series is over, HBO will go away. I just hope the series gets better, the first two episodes weren’t much to talk about.
I’ll wait until I can check it out at the local library. That is, if there still is a library in a couple of years. Aren’t county revenues falling as well?
On second thought, after watching the 3rd episode, save your money. Band of Brothers this is not… so far this series isn’t worth watching a 2nd time.
Tonight’s episode was entirely the guys in Australia on liberty. A bunch of guys get drunk, one guy gets in a 2 punch fight, and a couple guys get laid and one guy falls in love.
Hey, Walter, why don’t you invite Brad over for some beer and HBO?
It’s still Lent, Kathryn!
So is that the way Satan tempts today — not with dominion over the Earth or turning stones to bread, but with beer and HBO?
Wait a sec — I just thought of something… I go get my beer at Yesterday’s each Sunday (Sundays not counting in Lent), and they’ve got big-screen HDTVs with digital cable… I wonder if they have HBO?
Kathryn, because he’d get on my nerves. Since you’re being so nice, why don’t you invite him over instead.
Brad – So instead of spending $14/month for HBO you’d rather go to Yesterdays and drink $14/week in beer so you could watch the program for free?
Dude,
No one said you had to choose beer to give up. If it’s still an issue next year, why not give up job hunting and see if the Dark Angel sends you a great job offer?
Besides, it’s Holy Week. You’re almost there…perhaps someone will TiVo it for you, and invite you for a beer Saturday, right? Lenten observances end on Good Friday, don’t they?
Lent is a farce, as is most religion. It’s a good story though… the book has been a best seller for hundreds of years.
Hmmmm… given that last crack, maybe Walter actually IS the…
Nahhh. Lucifer would come on a lot more positive than Walter does.
And by the way, Walter, it’s the greatest story ever. About the closest thing to it, in terms of lasting appeal, would be Arthurian legend, which we keep seeing repackaged (Harry Potter, etc.). And even then, there are certain Messianic echoes of the House of David, the Once and Future Dynasty. Sometimes it seems that fiction writers can’t come up with anything else, from Herbert’s Muad-dib to “the One” in the Matrix to Harry Potter to Frodo Baggins to Cool Hand Luke to On The Waterfront — just one Messiah story after another.
Walter, just out of curiosity — what DO you believe in? For a minute there, back when we were talking Confederacy, I thought you were a True Believer in that sense, but then you said you wouldn’t have trouble finding a job because you’re not tied to this part of the country, and no Son of the South would say that.
So what DO you believe in?
I BELIEVE… I am right 99.999% of the time.
I BELIEVE… everybody should own a dog.
I BELIEVE… John Wayne should be on Mount Rushmore.
I BELIEVE… capitol punishment is effective, and would be more so if carried out in public.
I BELIEVE… there is a place you go after death, just not the way organized religion wants you to believe… “please pass the collection plate to your left”.
I BELIEVE… music died in the mid-80’s.
I could go on and on, but that’s enough for now.
The mid-80s? Do you really think it was that late?
Good list. Are these beliefs absolute? For instance, wouldn’t you say “Everybody should own a dog … except Michael Vick?”
And why do you want to punish capitol buildings? Sorry. A bit of copy editor humor there… As if I don’t frequently misspell things…
Older friends of mine say it was around 1976, but I graduated high school in the early 80’s so I give it another 7-8 years.
Actually, after writing that I think the correct statement should read, “I BELIEVE… every boy should own a dog growing up.”
Prisons and capitol buildings are were the bad people are.
Well, I have to agree with Walter on two points–everyone should have at least one dog, and music died in the 80s–the 1880s, though. That’s a move up from my prior death dates of 1825 and 1650.