We'll find out...after the break.

Learning about television and commercials in class wasn't...entirely riveting as I thought, mostly just that companies had to keep people tuned in through the commercials, which in some cases becomes glaringly obvious. Recently, I was reintroduced to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which I watched religiously ages 8 through 10, and can now stream through netflix in its entirety. Without the commercials there, its easy to see the myriad of cliffhangers littered through each episode, often with a blackout, then a simple conclusion, without commercials it seems silly. Here one of the writers even explains how the cliffhangers were initially written before the rest of the plot had filled in, which is almost artful in that each act had to effectively be written backwards. Its sort of a strange, magical, one might even say outdated process in a now almost commercial free world. I for one haven't seen a commercial since the superbowl, and it certainly has contributed to me no longer watching American Idol, aside from its sheer ridiculousness, the singing is now just filler between superfluous amounts of Ford and Coke ads. I for one want to live in a world where you watch the commercials to see if that fish monster really will eat that cheerleader, not to be barraged with even more ads and 10min of filler.