The tapes weren't very good, and Magnussen got bored with wading through languid shots of the Hawaii seascape to get to riveting moments of surfers defying 80-foot-high waves.

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They are bored because it is so good, and frustrated because it is not quite good enough.

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Even readers are bored with the end of the world as we have known it, and with good reason, we suppose.

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