One thing about movies and plays is that leaving the theater in the middle of a performance is difficult, even if you don't like the content.

I once attended a small theater and was exhausted after being subjected to two and a half hours of a play with "poor themes, yelling acting, and cheap criticisms of social issues without twists or turns.

"Boring theater is pretty hellish"

I would not hesitate to leave my seat during a play like this.

It may hurt the pride of the actors and the director, but I think it is generally equal to the fact that the shoddy play took up my precious money and time.

However, if I alone leave the stage in the middle of a play in a small theater, it would offend those who are concentrating on the play.

It is not my intention to inconvenience other spectators.

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Amazon Prime and NetFlix are good. They are perfect.

The freedom to give up in the middle of a project is lovely.

In that sense, scheduled recording with HDD video recorders is also good.

These days, I skip through NHK's epic dramas in minutes.

The reason is that this season's big drama is a bit too original in its creative storyline, and it is painful to watch for me.

(For example, I skipped all the full marathon scenes of the maid in the "azukubukuro" at the Kanegasaki retreat.)

However, I don't want to fall into that ugly 'if you don't like it, don't watch it' paradigm.

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Recently, I came up with a new method to solve this.

It's 'skip all the parts I don't like.

This is quite good. You can fast-forward and skip all the overly innovative creative parts.

This "skip all the parts I don't like" method is a last-minute compromise with my belief that "I will not stand on the side of condemnation of creators and their creations."

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This is why I have recently become hesitant to go to the theater, even for movies and plays.

It would be nice if theater plays could be "fast-forwarded" as well.