abc starts to pull their head out of its ass

collin and i have been watching lost from the beginning.  as you might know, i’ve never had any interest in the show.  but we made a deal: i’ll watch lost with her if she’ll watch battlestar with me.  best relationship ever.  annnnnnnnyway, so while its far from the orgasmic heights everyone’s been telling me it is, it’s a pretty decent show.  my only problem is abc’s stupid website.

ok, so abc gets props for putting the entire season online.  but they lose a million points for their idiotic streaming system.  everyone has ads, that’s how these systems work.  if you’re smart, like hulu, then you break in for an ad (15-30 secs) and then return to the show.  if you’re retarded, like abc, then you break into an ad THEN make the user click “play” again to resume the show.  this seems like a minor annoyance, but believe me, by the time you’re on episode three of a lost marathon, you’re pretty pissed at the asinine way abc has squeezed a few extra seconds of ad exposure.

so i was delighted to read this piece on slashfilm today reporting that abc has added lost (and couple of other shows) to netflix watch instantly.  well done.  now get on hulu like the rest of the world and join the 21st century.  asshats.

-srd