Why I watch so much TV

I am obsessed with my TV. If it was not me and I met someone else who watched as much TV as I did I would think they were kind of psycho - but here's why you shouldn't I'm psycho.
I like stories about other people's lives. In school I was that girl who read more books than were actually assigned and had talks about books at lunch at the teacher's table. But sadly, today we live in a world were everyone is writing spin-offs of other successful authors. Every book is just a very well plagiarized version of Harry Potter, Twilight, Kite Runner, The Other Boleyn Girl or The Devil Wears Prada. So finding a great book is much harder than it looks. Oh, and I do NOT do sad endings. This eliminates 65% of the books out there. In my happy little world people do not die at the end of the story. They can die in the middle - but not the end - they need to find peace and happiness at the end.
Some people watch lots of movies. I love lots of movies and am very outspoken about my favorites - but for the most part movies are just too short. I want to sit and watch someone's life for hours, days even - 1.5 hours doesn't make me love them. You can't really go on a journey in under 2 hours. Epic 3 part movies (LOTR for ex) are much better - these I feel like are worth the effort.
Real people are great, don't get me wrong, but with TV everyone has a destiny - it's built right in. I wake up and have no idea what's going to happen - but TV is a constructed world in which life can be molded in such a beautiful way. Kind of like apples in the market - the organic ones are healthy and natural but they have spots - the pesticide-riddled ones are still pretty good for you and they are way shinier. I like life to be a little more epic and shiny than just plain real life.
And now Wearhouse 13 and Defying Gravity have finished downloading - so I'm going to my happy place.

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