So I come from a very athletic family. Learning how to play basketball is kind of a rite of passage for us. We usually just watch basketball and football at my house, but there is always a game on. Consequently, I learned how to watch TV by watching sports (and cartoons, but that's besides the point). It is impossible to watch sports quietly. Honestly, it's really fun to yell at people and the best place to do that is in a stadium. But houses work too. There is something really satisfying in yelling your opinion at the top of your lungs.
This fun little habit has leaked over to my normal TV watching. I find myself watching sitcoms and yelling at the actors for bad acting choices, then ragging on the writers for making the characters do something that goes completely against the character's development. The dialogue sucks, the actor was chosen for his abs and not his emotional capacity, the writers are bored, the drama will never end, and so on.
It doesn't make sense. It wouldn't happen, not realistically anyway.
I promise I'm not the random person in movie theatres that feels the need to comment on everything throughout the movie. I respect the theatre, I know how to behave. But at home, on my couch...I make no promises.
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