"Yeah, see, this is why we get crap like CSI: DeMoines and Law and Order: Petti-Crimes. Serial television is the best television, period. There's nothing like it! And with DVD it's better than ever."
Well, I love serial fiction... but I disagree: the best television tends not to be serial. Cowboy Bebop, Star Trek, The Simpsons, Mystery Science Theatre, The Daily Show, Northern Exposure....the list goes on and on.
In any case, the problem with serial television, even if it's good, is that, on TV, it's absolutley not worth it for me to base my schedule around my entertainment instead of the other way around....ESPECIALLY when that entertainment consists of 20% annoying sales pitch. But, on dvd, I'll rent a well-regarded tv show and discover that I've just wasted hours upon hours of my life on a moderatley entertaining drawn-out drama, when I could've picked something far better from the pool of thousands of absolutley amazing pieces of entertainment that've been produced in the last 100 years of cinema.
So, yeah, in conclusion, I hate television.