Super Surprisingly TV

[jeshyr]

As those who see me RL will know, I regularly record a ton of TV shows I later delete unwatched.

Recordings are sometimes one-off picks from the TV guide but more commonly they're series that I know I like or keyword recordings set off by the presence of a particular keyword or actor name in the description, so I don't always know what's being recorded. I delete things after watching, but otherwise deletions mostly happen when my hard drive is close to filling up and I go through and delete a bunch of stuff that's sat around unwatched for a long time.

One of the slightly humorous consequences of this approach is I often have recorded shows which I either didn't know were being recorded or have completely forgotten about. There was one there tonight called "Predators In Your Backyard". That's all I knew about it - it was recorded six weeks ago from a keyword I think so I don't recall anything about it except the title.

It's been sitting there for a while as the second oldest unwatched thing... I had assumed it was going to be about bugs and beetles and the whole teeny tiny ecosystem we have there in our backyards. David Attenborough type science of the very small.

I just turned it on ... it's about wolves in Yellowstone national park.

My brain feels slightly broken ...


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Comments

[acelightning]

the United States still has many areas where "wildlife" exists in close proximity to human habitations, and it's not only in or near wilderness areas like Yellowstone Park. in many suburbs, and even slightly more urban neighborhoods, here in New Jersey, coyotes and black bears are barely even newsworthy any more. and it's not only predators; at the house where i lived before moving here, maybe 15 km away, i would routinely see deer in my back yard. (people sometimes call them "rats with antlers", for the way they ruin carefully landscaped gardens by devouring the ornamental plants.)

[dragonsally]

Wolves! Damn I wish we'd recorded that!