Oh, good. Now when the tornado rips through our town, we can all console ourselves with the knowledge that the special effects were way better than they were on Twister, playing not ten minutes prior when I really could have used some kind of weather map to see what was coming our way. /facepalm
J.
Yeah, I have to agree. This is stupidity in action. The Weather Channel serves a purpose, and that is to provide weather information to those who, like, need to know what's going on. It's bad enough that you invariably have to wait till they finish telling you the weather on the other side of the country before they get to your area, or what the pollen count is in some corner of the globe (the Canadian version is pretty bad for this), but now you're having movies that will interrupt this news for hours at a time. (I assume there'll be a scroll or something, but still.)
I can only assume this is an indication that the Weather Channel is starting to give up on the assumption everyone gets their weather from the Internet now. But as my parents keep saying, not everyone has (or wants) the Internet.
When Syfy started airing wrestling, I thought it was just stupid. This goes beyond stupid -- this is actually potentially dangerous.
Alex