It's all about expectations
Dec. 31st, 2007 02:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jmc_bksDear DirecTv:
You suck. According to the viewing information online, the Lions-Packers game was supposed to be televised yesterday afternoon. Being a Packer fan, I was appropriately clad in my #4 jersey at 1pm; the corn was popped, the phone was in my hand, my bootie dance was ready. And what did you televise? The Saints-Bears game. This, despite the fact that the TV guide and the DTV operator said that the Packers game was supposed to be on in my region.
Now, I like the Bears, and love the Boy Uncle's basement shrine to all things blue and orange (including Payton and Urlacher Fat Head decals). But that's not what I was expecting to see. It's all about managing expectations. If you hadn't led me to believe I would be able to watch perhaps Bret Favre's last regular season game in the comfort of my own home, I would've made alternate arrangments. But no, by the time the problem was apparent, it was too late.
So, again, I say, you suck.
No love,
jmc
Instead of watching football, I watched North & South as part of KristieJ's Great North & South Crusade. I'm pondering. I haven't read the book, and wouldn't have thought to compare Thornton to Darcy but for a comment made by Richard Armitage in one of the special features. I find Thornton to be a much more appealing hero than Darcy, and I don't think it is just an Armitage > Firth thing. It occurs to me that part of it may be attitude and part of it is a function of their characters' respective social classes and worldviews. While Thorton comes across as arrogant and dour, he's self-made; Darcy, on the other hand, is arrogant about an accident of birth. Maybe it's just the prole in me, but the self-made man is more attractive to me.
You suck. According to the viewing information online, the Lions-Packers game was supposed to be televised yesterday afternoon. Being a Packer fan, I was appropriately clad in my #4 jersey at 1pm; the corn was popped, the phone was in my hand, my bootie dance was ready. And what did you televise? The Saints-Bears game. This, despite the fact that the TV guide and the DTV operator said that the Packers game was supposed to be on in my region.
Now, I like the Bears, and love the Boy Uncle's basement shrine to all things blue and orange (including Payton and Urlacher Fat Head decals). But that's not what I was expecting to see. It's all about managing expectations. If you hadn't led me to believe I would be able to watch perhaps Bret Favre's last regular season game in the comfort of my own home, I would've made alternate arrangments. But no, by the time the problem was apparent, it was too late.
So, again, I say, you suck.
No love,
jmc
Instead of watching football, I watched North & South as part of KristieJ's Great North & South Crusade. I'm pondering. I haven't read the book, and wouldn't have thought to compare Thornton to Darcy but for a comment made by Richard Armitage in one of the special features. I find Thornton to be a much more appealing hero than Darcy, and I don't think it is just an Armitage > Firth thing. It occurs to me that part of it may be attitude and part of it is a function of their characters' respective social classes and worldviews. While Thorton comes across as arrogant and dour, he's self-made; Darcy, on the other hand, is arrogant about an accident of birth. Maybe it's just the prole in me, but the self-made man is more attractive to me.
