One of the
added bonuses (bonii?) that comes from watching the new episodes of Arrested
Development on Netflix is that we once more get to hear their their jazzy end theme.
It's music you likely didn't hear
when the series ran on Fox almost a decade ago because the network's standard
procedure was to box out the end credits in order to promote an upcoming show.
I didn't get a chance to hear the end credits theme until I got the DVDs.
But you can be happy in the
knowledge that all is not well in Netflix land. It seems Netflix is
"out-Foxing" us with the new Arrested, thanks to their new
practice of starting the next episode in a new box before the old one
(minimized in a much smaller box) has finished playing. If you want to hear the
full end theme, and see the full end credits, you have to click on the smaller
box playing the credits -- it will then finish playing out the current episode
in full screen and allow you to select the next episode you want to watch, or
select a different show all together....
...you know, choice,
the reason I pay for Netflix in the first place.
Hulu does this now, too, with a
variation -- they start playing an episode of a similar TV show before
the credits are done on the old one. Just because I watched the latest episode
of New Girl does NOT mean I want to watch the latest episode of The
Mindy Project. I DO NOT WATCH The Mindy Project, even when I'm
watching actual, real-time, un-time-shifted network TV. Or finishing the newest
Modern Family doesn't mean I'm ready for the newest The Middle. I
DO NOT watch The Middle.
Call me crazy, but I kind of like to
watch the programs I WANT to watch WHEN I want to watch them. Which, I thought,
is kind of why Hulu and Netflix exist.
