Culture and Current Affairs

Like many people these days, I watch Internet TV instead of regular TV.

I’m going to post separately a few of my pet peeves about this new medium in the hope that if enough of us voice our discontent with these irritations that the networks will listen.

Last night I watched this week’s episode of Lost. Two peeves here:

1) The navigation menus are confusing. To watch an episode of the show, do you click on free episodes, FREE EPISODES, or WATCH FREE EPISODES? (Each of them goes someplace different.)

If I hover my mouse over EPISODES do I select EPISODE RECAPS, VIDEO RECAPS, PHOTOS, or LOST UNTANGLED? Are any of those really episodes? (No.)

The ABC webmasters need to read up on usability; this is the Internet, not a TV set.

2) When you arrive on the Lost home page, a Lost Untangled video automatically starts playing. Within 10 seconds it’s telling you what happens in the episode you came to watch! Grrrrrr! Talk about a spoiler. Come on guys! Think this through.

~ A Frustrated Lost Junkie