I know, I know. I've been remiss in my blogging duties of late. I blame...well, I was going to blame the holidays, but it's a little late for that. I blame my general need to sleep so much. I think it must be unnatural. I think I also need to blame this bloody golden age of television. When did shows just get so damn good? Even the bad ones. And with the beginning of a new year, new seasons dawn. I'm in the midst of the new Downton Abbey season, Game of Thrones approaches in April, the second season of Broadchurch should be available soon, and sometime in the next year or five, the new Sherlock. I'm in the midst of watching the second season of Peaky Blinders, and the second season of the Fall. Then my brother decided I should start watching the Blacklist, one of those it's-not-that-good-but-it's-so-great kind of shows.
In the midst of all this, I've started renting movies again, from the oh so awesome Scarecrow Video. If you are unfamiliar with this magical place, it's a film addict's dream with roughly 110,000 titles. If it exists on any format, they most likely have it. Last Monday, I went in for my weekly hour-long perusal of the shelves and decided to rent an anime I've been curious about, Naoki Urasawa's Monster. Thinking it was only 15 episodes long, I figured I could knock it out in a week and have another series under my belt. I started it and all other viewing ceased. I would actually anxiously look forward to getting home from work, so I could watch a couple more episodes. Imagine my delight when I found out that this show isn't merely 15 episodes, but 74! What joy! In true serial fashion, episode 15 left me with a cliffhanger. I trekked happily back to Scarecrow today to check out the next set, but it wasn't there. Surely someone checked it out. I look at the database, nothing. I recalled reading that it was streaming somewhere. I check my roku at home. I'll explain this if you don't have a roku. It houses all the available streaming channels so you can watch them on your TV. It has almost everything, Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, PBS, Funimation, etc. You can search on your main roku page, and it will look for the movie or show on all the channels and give you a list of options to watch it on. So I searched. None of the channels had it. After some interweb digging, I find out that the company that released it, only released those first 15. *imagine me, on my knees, screaming to the heavens "WHY?!"*
I have no legal means of watching the rest of this show. And I felt the need to share my despair with the empty void of the internet-verse. Now I will scour the globe for the rest of it, or resort to reading the books. Only time and my patience will reveal which path I take.
Rant: over!
In the midst of all this, I've started renting movies again, from the oh so awesome Scarecrow Video. If you are unfamiliar with this magical place, it's a film addict's dream with roughly 110,000 titles. If it exists on any format, they most likely have it. Last Monday, I went in for my weekly hour-long perusal of the shelves and decided to rent an anime I've been curious about, Naoki Urasawa's Monster. Thinking it was only 15 episodes long, I figured I could knock it out in a week and have another series under my belt. I started it and all other viewing ceased. I would actually anxiously look forward to getting home from work, so I could watch a couple more episodes. Imagine my delight when I found out that this show isn't merely 15 episodes, but 74! What joy! In true serial fashion, episode 15 left me with a cliffhanger. I trekked happily back to Scarecrow today to check out the next set, but it wasn't there. Surely someone checked it out. I look at the database, nothing. I recalled reading that it was streaming somewhere. I check my roku at home. I'll explain this if you don't have a roku. It houses all the available streaming channels so you can watch them on your TV. It has almost everything, Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, PBS, Funimation, etc. You can search on your main roku page, and it will look for the movie or show on all the channels and give you a list of options to watch it on. So I searched. None of the channels had it. After some interweb digging, I find out that the company that released it, only released those first 15. *imagine me, on my knees, screaming to the heavens "WHY?!"*
I have no legal means of watching the rest of this show. And I felt the need to share my despair with the empty void of the internet-verse. Now I will scour the globe for the rest of it, or resort to reading the books. Only time and my patience will reveal which path I take.
Rant: over!
