ah yes, the SBS "Cult Animation" thing is over before it really began. They got half-way through "Samurai Champloo" before someone - probably Les Murray - said "Let's put on the soccer instead."
BASTARDS BASTARDS BASTARDS.
i suppose we should be grateful they at least showed most of "Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex", but dayum, it hurts more to be fucked over by SBS than the other channels, because the others are all so commercial (aside, of course, from Auntie) that you expect to be fucked over by them. with the multicultural SBS - you watch Silvio Rivier doing those world travel spots, and the impartial and balanced SBS news and you see Mary Kostakidis being all charming and regal and you think "Yeah, at least SBS still has some standards."
then they pull this shit. i feel really sorry for anyone in Australia who has shelled out a lot of money for a TV that can't be connected to a computer, because there is sweet fanny adams[1] worth watching on free-to-air. you gets what you pays for.
although if you pay taxes then eight cents a day of that goes to supporting Auntie, and guess what THEY'RE showing? AGAIN?
fucking Kath and Kim.
their strategy for this show is like Milligan's description of the British Army and hanging: "if a soldier dies when you hang him, then keep on hanging him until he likes it." they imagine if they keep repeating K&K ad nauseam (and with that show, nauseam doesn't take long), people will stop thinking "this is septic, runny shit" and start thinking "this is clever, witty, biting satire, and very amusing in the bargain."
AAAAAAARGH.
here endeth the sermon. go now in peace.
[1] paraphrase for "SFA", or "sweet fuck-all".
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