
So I’m riding the Bolt bus
from Boston back to NYC and the young gentleman next to me opens up his laptop
and dons his noise-reducing over-the-ear headphones and proceeds to watch what
I can tell is an episode from
Breaking Bad. I, of course, am also wearing my noise-reducing over-the-ear
headphones, but I have ditched the laptop for this quickie overnight trip and
am resolved to write – by pen! - a little blog entry on the difference between
watching an episodic dramatic TV show in its weekly format and watching it in a
marathon viewing.
Naturally, a pen is nowhere
to be found on my person. So I make the universal signal for “Would you mind
taking off your headphones so I can ask you if you have a pen, please?” and the
young gentleman next to me does so. And what a pen! It’s beautiful. And I seize
upon this momentary gateway into human communication to let him know that I
love Breaking Bad, and I ask him
what season is he on and he says that he is on Season 3 and he has been
powering through all the episodes since last week. He travels a lot as a sound
designer for musicians on tour and he uses the time on planes in hotel rooms
(and apparently on buses) to catch up on the TV series that his buddies have
long since watched and have been talking about.
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