Television burnout
So the new TV season is rolling, and I hate to say it, but I couldn't care less. There were a lot of good trailers on this summer that certainly should have interested me, with actors and premises that I think, under other circumstances, surely would have grabbed my attention.
But for whatever reason, I haven't bothered to plug many of the new shows at all into the recording schedule of my DVR. I set it up to record the pilot for The Bionic Woman, mainly because I love Katee Sackhoff (Starbuck from the incomparable re-imagined Battlestar Galactica) and wanted to see how she does as a bad guy. Girl. Whatever. And outside of her little tidbits, wasn't overly impressed with what I saw.
Part of it is that here it is, the end of September, and my DVR is still 50 percent full from stuff over the summer that I haven't watched yet -- endless episodes of BBC America's Robin Hood, three episodes of Torchwood I've yet to catch up on, Dr. Who, Eureka, a couple of episodes of The Dead Zone, and a ton of anime like Bleach and Naruto.
Part of it is that many of the broadcasters this fall are hoping to hook viewers into watching serial dramas they'll have to watch for the whole season, and I just can't handle that commitment right now. Sorry.