I'm Giving Up on Alcatraz

[amberfocus]

I like it well enough, I do, but FOX is making it so darn difficult to watch. First few eps you could watch the next day, then after that they switched to making you wait eight days after it aired to watch it online. Now they are airing episodes out of order. Plus they keep talking about cancelling it. FOX, you and your shows are not worth the aggravation.

And since Terra Nova has been cancelled by FOX (but they are looking for another network to pick it up possibly), that leaves me with Fringe still on FOX, which I may sneak up and watch on Mom's Dish network on Friday nights. And then when Fringe is done airing, that's it for me and FOX. I will no longer watch what it airs. It doesn't give its shows a chance and it makes it hard to watch them, and they don't care about their fandoms, clearly, so fine. I'm done with FOX.

Comments

[sinecure.livejournal.com]

Has Fringe been renewed? I know it was in danger of being canceled, but I haven't heard anything since. That sucks about Terra Nova. I kind of like it.

[kitsune17.livejournal.com]

You could always go the...less than legal way to watch it, and then buy the DVDs to support the show if you like it. I do that with Game of Thrones, because HBO makes it so freaking hard to watch online legally.

[jessicaqueen.livejournal.com]

No kidding about Fox being buttholes. Nearly a decade later I'm still heartbroken about how thoroughly they screwed over Firefly.

[amberfocus.livejournal.com]

Me, too. In fact, I think that's when all this nonsense of theirs started. Although...it might have been with Space Above and Beyond.

[amberfocus.livejournal.com]

No, starting in July they are going to make internet companies start monitoring how much you are downloading and if the file sizes are too big, they will issue up to six warnings before they cut off your internet service. There was a big thing with a trade agreement between 39 countries and they are going to start Big Brothering us. ageless_aislynn has a thing about it on her blog yesterday with appropriate links to follow. Personally, I think it amounts to illegal search and seizure and will likely be challenged, but before it is, I'm not going to take the risk of my internet service being cut off altogether. I'll just watch the shows on the channels who air next day online.

[amberfocus.livejournal.com]

I read they have been picked up for a season 5 but only for 15 episodes, or something like that. Or that a deal was in the works for that. Maybe if they hadn't made such a mess of season 4 so far...I really thought Fringe would go the distance of The X-Files in the beginning. I'm not sure Jason Katims knows what to do once he gets to a season four, to be honest.

[kitsune17.livejournal.com]

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