By TPerl
I shit you not - the first 4 hours of "24" that JUST AIRED on Sunday and Monday is now available on DVD for the super low price of just $11.98 (or $9.99 on Amazon).
And wait! There's more! The DVD includes a "never-before-seen 12-minute preview of the next explosive episode".
"Never-before-seen"? I hate to state the obvious here, but it ain't seen yet 'cause it hasn't fucking aired yet.
And yet the Fox website proudly promotes "BE THE FIRST TO SEE 12 MINUTES OF EPISODE 5 BEFORE IT AIRS!"
Yeah, as long as you pay the extra 10 bucks for overnight shipping. And congrats on seeing 12 minutes on Sunday that we all can watch for free on Monday.
I'm not really sure why this bothers me so much, but I somehow feel like we've crossed the line into some weird new world where network executives and marketing departments have begun to take over the world. Perhaps we're just moments away from some kind of Terminator-like judgement day.
I think we need to send Jack Bauer back in time to kill this thing where it all started - I suspect that if Henry Winkler was assassinated just before he filmed that now-infamous shark-jumping episode, then humanity might just stand a chance.
There is no fate than what we make for ourselves.
1 comment:
Not just crass marketing exploitation, but further evidence of my theory of Death By Nostalgia, based on the principle that the time-span between a loosely-defined "event" and the time when society sees fit to embrace said event in a warm fuzzy of reminiscence is growing increasingly smaller, and will eventually reach a point infinitely small and dense on the scale of a cultural black hole until time slows down and even light can't escape and then BANG! Death By Nostalgia.
The real question is: what can scrunchy-faced Chloe type in her super computer to stop it?
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