Olympics coverage - still chafing my hide

[lizardbeth]

I can't believe we're going to get the women's all-around gymnastics tonight on delay. Yes, west coast is tape-delayed so that instead of putting it Live in our prime time, we have to wait until 11 pm (our time), so the winner will have been known for hours. Seriously, I was watching Horton's High Bar routine (because it is AMAZING peeps) and the men's swimming relay squeaker race on YouTube before it was on my t.v. a couple days ago.

To make it all even more annoying - there's a rumor that NBC might bend to show Michael Phelps' final race live for us too. Which would be great, but it would be even better to show ALL the marquee events actually live. Because really, watching the team gymnastics finals would've been a whole lot more interesting if I DIDN'T ALREADY KNOW that poor Alicia Scaramonde fell on her ass, twice. And I'd really like to watch tonight when everyone else is.

It's not like that recap show is going to change - it could still go after the live stuff. or interspersed. Or hey, even start earlier and pre-empt Access Hollywood! There's an idea.

SO ANNOYED. STILL. SOME MORE.

But in happier news, Short Person is actually taking a nap! \o/

So I have some time to write.

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*snicker*

Comments

[lizardbeth-j.livejournal.com]

He has one race. And I don't mind them cutting to that. IF IT WERE LIVE. Which it is not, here. So there is absolutely no reason why they couldn't put the gymnastics as a block and the swimming as a block. But NOOOO, they stick LIVE graphics in the corner to pretend the west coast is watching it live too. grrr

2010 in Vancouver is going to be EVEN BETTER - they delayed Salt Lake for us too, even though we're the same damn time zone.

Please, Disney, offer gobs of money to take over the coverage after that!

[reneedy.livejournal.com]

I think they inter-cut them to keep people from tuning out. Short attention spans and all. It works well when it's live, but yeah I can see the annoyingness otherwise. But even it if weren't live I kind of like inter-cutting the two. But then I like both sports. Watching a huge block of swimming would be boring. I guess there's more variety in gymnastics, but I think the speed vs. technique balance is interesting. In swimming anyone can see who's won, but in gymnastics it's up to the judges.