The Cape

As of lately I have been diving into more TV shows and have been open to try new and different ones.  For some reason I think it is better to start a TV show once it is cancelled, I guess I know that I wont be wrapped up in it forever and I can watch it at any pace I want.  So one of these shows was Community and that helped me find many more shows seeing as they reference almost every other cult TV show.  One of the shows they referenced was called The Cape and it followed a framed police officer who was thought to be dead but was saved by a group of criminal circus performers who trained him to become a superhero to enact revenge on the man who framed him (seriously how could anyone not want to watch that?).
It was brought in as a mid season replacement and eventually the episodes were cut from 13 to 10 after TV ratings for the show went dramatically low.  The last episode (which was only the 10th) was only shown on NBC.com and the last three were never released.  Going into this I thought that there was only 10 episodes and once I got to the last one and realized that the story wasn't even close to being wrapped up I became upset.  I guess that I don't understand why NBC didn't release the finale three episodes online.
This post is more of me just complaining about the fact that NBC couldn't give The Cape fans closure.  I have come to realize that people who work in the TV industry do not care about the people who watch their shows and in turn help them make their money.  I could only imagine what fans of Firefly feel like.

Kentucky Derby

Yesterday was the special day of the year when 8 hours of television is devoted to 2 minutes of a horse race.  I feel that this is only possible with something that is as old as the Kentucky Derby, which just celebrated its 139th annual race.  The only other events that I can think of that draw that much attention and have that much money changing hands in one day would be the World Cup (which is understandable seeing that soccer is the worlds most popular sport) and the Superbowl (which is understandable because Americans love Football).  It is still a little crazy to me that people watch the coverage of the race for several hours prior to the race only to see a few minutes of actual "excitement".  But if watching rich people get drunk and dress like idiots is you're thing who am I to take that away from you.
The winning horse, Orb, seems to have critics in favor of him winning the triple crown; which will be the first time in over 35 years.  Honestly this is the only thing I took away from yesterdays race...well that and Tom Brady winning close to $30,000. (I would react the same way if I had just won that amount of money).