It's dead, Jim

[wraithfodder]

Yes, the power company killed the cable box. Don't know how, and it doesn't speak well of the integrity of the box itself, but several minutes after the second showing of Stargate Atlantis ended, the TV went wonky, fuzzyish- not the TV, the VCr, the DVR, nope, spend far too much time checking, which left the box. So I had to call cable about it (and you know how that goes - you're on hold so long you start falling asleep or forget why you're on hold). They couldn't fix it from their end so I had to drive all the way down (ack, on a Saturday morning, hideous traffic), stand in line, get new box, drive home, plug it in, wait wait wait and then "i'm sorry, but this box is not authorized." Gah! So I had to call them, get on hold again for a long time, and then they finally connected and activated it. Ah, cable again, only wow, there's really not much of a rush to watch anything.

Wraithfodder

Comments

[timespirt.livejournal.com]

Lately, all they have on are reality and horror shows for the most part. So what is left for the rest of us???

[djlmarks.livejournal.com]

Good point. I imagine giant anacondas and stupid crap like that is cheaper than visualizing an intelligent and visually stimulating series. If I recall correctly, the whole reason Sci Fi network canned Atlantis was due to rising costs...they needed to find cheaper stars. So THAT'S what happens when you become successful. And I got to say that the Sci Fi channel is the LAST channel I thought would do a stupid ass reality game show, but the costs are 1/3 of a creative show that requires actual actors, writers, and production.

[timespirt.livejournal.com]

Oh, you got that right. B movies also are cheep to make or buy to put on as well, so between reality TV, wrestling and crappy horror movies, we got a whole lot of nothing and pay a lot of money to watch it!!!

[timespirt.livejournal.com]

Oh, and I wrote Cheep as I wanted it to look, like the bird squaking Cheep, Cheep!

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

Wrestling? (quickly ducks flaming action figures) ;)

[timespirt.livejournal.com]

Yes, wrestling! Stargate Atlantis/SG-1 Action figures aside, wrestling is just so wrong on a science fiction channel!