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[bodldops]

It's 11pm.

I'm dead tired.

There's only ONE swimming race left tonight.

The one with Phelps in.

So what does NBC do?

SWITCH TO FREAKING GYMNASTICS.

Which, you know, I'd also like to see, but I'm not going to stay up for a whole new sport.

Thanks ever so much, NBC. Because that beach volleyball game and the synchronized diving was SO THRILLING. In the way it wasn't. At all.

In other news, I spayed one cat, neutered two normal cats, and went hunting for a rogue testicle in a cryptorchid cat. All of this almost makes up for the 11.5 hour day.

EDIT: They must be reading my journal now, because after the commercial break, as I was about to turn off the TV, back came Phelps. It was a semifinal, but it was fun anyway.

Dear NBC: Yes. Like that. Only, say, an hour or two earlier.

Comments

[slutbamwalla.livejournal.com]

I agree. Starting the gymnastics at 11pm and running until 1:30 in the morning is rough. And it wasn't even that impressive.

But it's not like they can do it any earlier, since they were running it live. The best they could do is play it at a more reasonable hour the next day. Damn twelve hour time difference. *grumbles*

[bodldops.livejournal.com]

Well, it's live for East Coast. It's very time-delayed for me, so while it's fair that we get ungodly hours the same as everyone else... it makes no sense. But yes, playing it the next day would be fine for me. Just dandy. I don't have time during the day to go check medal counts or news feeds anyway, so it's not like I'd spoil myself.

But surely there's something going on besides beach volleyball? Misty Mae isn't that interesting.

[slutbamwalla.livejournal.com]

I didn't realize they were time-delaying it. I had thought they were keeping it live across the country, since 11pm Eastern is only 8pm Pacific, which is still primetime. (Also didn't realize where you were... lol)

[bodldops.livejournal.com]

*waves from the 'Golden' state* Yeah, NBC is still broadcasting 8pm-1:30am here. Evidently they decided since all of China has only one time zone, the US should follow suit. Which would be fine, if they actually followed the laws of reality and started broadcasting Olympics at, like, 5pm. But then they wouldn't be able to fit in 'Entertainment Tonight' and society as we know it might collapse into mush. *wry*

[slutbamwalla.livejournal.com]

See, what they *should* do is keep the live stuff at the same relative time across the whole country, and then fit in the other stuff around it.

Instead of putting diving and beach volleyball before the live stuff on the West Coast, they should keep the live stuff live and put the prerecorded stuff *after*.

But that would make *sense*.

[bodldops.livejournal.com]

Sorry, we don't do things that make sense here. We need to make it as crazy as possible. Sense is boring.