I hate HBO

It's not because it can't deliver top notch movies, it certainly can. It looks good, it offers HD (well, sort of) full stereo and sometimes surround which drives mad my neighbors... but still, it's a messed up channel.

It happens that I love Lord of the Rings (LotR), I really do. It's an awesome movie from many points of view, but every episode is frigging long; you're expected to sit and watch the full movie in one shot, but I tell you, it's a pain! A movie is good when it can deliver some action in every seven minutes. That's required for people to not fall asleep. BUT! There are movies (LotR) which takes this to extreme and shows some really neat stuff between these seven minutes, or the "Wake the hell up" action takes exactly 6'59" and then continues with another "Wake the hell up" action. This is bad! No, it's Evil!

1. you have to go to the bathroom. Shit happens sometimes, and this time it happens to happen exactly in the middle of a "Wake the hell up" action. How do you go to the bathroom? Will you go and miss the action or you try to abstain yourself from the pleasure causing pain for yourself?
2. you're hungry; that's quite common nowadays in the middle (or end, heck knows) of the financial crisis. Will you go to eat something after you take in consideration that the fridge is downstairs and you have no idea if you will find anything in it, or you continue to watch the movie and starve, causing you pain?
3. let's say you're a smoker and your girlfriend(s) won't allow you to smoke in the room? What do you do? Miss the action or go out on the balcony and have pleasure, knowing that you will die sooner?
4. you forgot to turn down your PC speakers and a weird sound notifies you that you got a new email. Of course, the PC is downstairs and you expect an email from the CEO of MSFT as both of you love puppies and you've engaged yourself in a cool conversation with him about these little, weird animals (due to lack of other, meaningful subject)

Now, every time I watch something on HBO, these things happen to me... always! How about HBO implements something like a "Pause" function or something? It won't happen anytime soon, will it? I hate HBO...