Good things come to those who wait
I’ve made the biggest little mistake of my life. Last Sunday I patiently waited for HBO On-Demand to upload the latest episode of The Wire (episode 12). It was up, promptly at midnight, and I watched it and loved it. AS ALWAYS. The problem was that I loved it too much. It was too good, and with only one episode left in the season I couldn’t wait. I’ve become spoiled by technology. It’d be like being a kid who could move up the date of his birthday. I needed to see that last episode. I needed to see what happened to these characters. So I went online, found the episode and downloaded it. THIS IS ILLEGAL and maybe I’ll end up in prison by this time tomorrow, but here’s the catch: the file I downloaded was only 58 minutes long. The episode itself is actually an hour and 18 minutes long. So now I’ve watched 2/3rds of the fourth season finale but am nowhere close to having actually seen the conclusion. This is killing me. Honestly, I’m dying. Why the hell couldn’t I just wait a week? I’d be able to watch the show in my living room, on an actual TV, with a crisp picture, in its ENTIRETY.
I hope we’ve all learned a little something from my mistake. Just wait. It’ll still be there, and it’ll still be good.
But I will say this: that 2/3rds is god damn incredible.
November 29th, 2006 at 6:21 am
I didn’t get the Arrested Development reference at the beginning. Funny thing being that I just saw that episode for the first time three days ago. But yeah, missed the reference.