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I believe the phrase is "jumped the shark"
We just watched the end of season two of True Blood. Season one was quite good, though rather dissimilar from the books (Dani says; they're in my reading queue). Season two continued that dissimilarity but got just plain weird. Spoiler warning, in case it matters: Really, a supernatural being who locks the entire town under mind control toward the goal of summoning Dionysius so she can marry him? And the way to any god's heart is through, well, sacrificial hearts? Ew. I believe we shall both give season three a pass.
I think I'll go scrub that out of my brain with some Stargate: SG-1.
(And a minor Netflix kvetch: I do not want to separately manage DVD and instant-view queues; I want the latter to be auto-generated from the relevant subset of the former. Unlike with DVDs it isn't really a queue; I can watch anything at any time, so it's just a matter of navigation. It wouldn't matter if things available via streaming stayed available, but they seem randomly become unavailable, at which point I have to move them over to the DVD queue. That could be easier.)
I think I'll go scrub that out of my brain with some Stargate: SG-1.
(And a minor Netflix kvetch: I do not want to separately manage DVD and instant-view queues; I want the latter to be auto-generated from the relevant subset of the former. Unlike with DVDs it isn't really a queue; I can watch anything at any time, so it's just a matter of navigation. It wouldn't matter if things available via streaming stayed available, but they seem randomly become unavailable, at which point I have to move them over to the DVD queue. That could be easier.)
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I have definitely added things to my instant queue without them showing up on my DVD queue, and then when they stop being available via streaming I have to add them to the DVD queue.
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I'm getting the impression the relationship between the two queues (and some of the AJAX) is buggy, as in "Hadn't I already thrown this off my queue already? How did it get back here?"
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I'm not getting auto-population of the instant queue. :-( And while I wouldn't really expect them to get this right, when something that is in my DVD queue later becomes available for instant viewing, it sure doesn't show up there.
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I see these two tabs:
and then when I click on the DVDs tab, I see this:
I could shuffle that stuff around, but if I click on the Instant tab I see this:
so there's really no point.
If you add something to your DVD queue, it automatically shows up in the instant queue, so you might as well add them to the DVD queue and keep them at the bottom. Then if it disappears off the Instant queue, it's still on the DVD queue and you can bump it or not. Watching something on the Instant queue doesn't remove it, though, so you may need to keep an eye on that.
What you see on whatever device you're using may differ; thus far I've only streamed via computer.
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That isn't how mine is working. If I add a DVD, even if it has instant play availability, it does not show up in the instant queue.
Plus, on the PS3 (I don't know about other boxes), while you can browse through all available movies/shows, or you can browse through your instant queue, you can't browse through your DVD queue. So I have to stick the shows I want to watch on the instant queue (or suffer through searching from a TV remote, since we haven't bought a keyboard for the PS3).
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Hmm, I wonder if DVD sets behave differently; a season of a TV show is one entry in the instant queue but one entry per disc in the DVD queue. Which leads to another frustration -- I want better management for multi-disc sets. I don't want an entry per disc; I want an entry for the series and an indicator of what disc is next.
But thanks for the tip to always add things to the DVD queue, and instant if applicable. At least that way the one is a proper subset of the other, at the cost of some extra maintenance of the DVD queue (remembering to remove things from both queues). I can handle that until they get around to adding a "remove from both" option.
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As for "True Blood", yeah. I was dismayed by the HBO-ism of it during the first season, and the second deviated wildly. The third.. well, I made it about four or six episodes in (not sure) and lost interest. I have all of them but they're just sitting around taking up space.
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I have not found a good way to ask Netflix "so what things would I like that are instantly available?"
Yeah, I would like that functionality too.
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It does that for me on the Roku, just not in the Netflix DVD queue. But sometimes a week will go by without me even looking at the latest disc: I use the service now primarily for streaming (and if they do not offer it, there are other means).
Supposedly they offer an "upgrade" to a streaming-only account for an additional dollar. How they justify charging more I do not know, unless they provide an upgraded interface where you only see streamable content. If they did I might be willing to pay the usurous surcharge.
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