We could have been home with our families.
From the bowels of the other CBS Interactive office here in Louisville, KY (the one with cable) Megan Wollerton, Ry Crist, and I elected to spend our Friday evening reporting on the experience of syncing your Philips Hue color-changing LED bulbs with the premiere of the new "12 Monkeys" ongoing TV series from Syfy.
If you follow this kind of thing, you may recall Syfy pulled a similar stunt with the Sharknado series.
Let the following collection of Tweets bring you along if you somehow didn't watch the light-enhanced spectacle yourself.
Excited for this. I've always wanted to know what color time is. #12Monkeys
— Ry Crist (@rycrist) January 17, 2015
Powerin' up the Syfy Sync app for #12monkeys...let there be light! pic.twitter.com/ekXz7bBH9x
— Megan Wollerton (@meganwollerton) January 17, 2015
Got some eerie green lights goin' now pic.twitter.com/GOxXkT3b4B
— Megan Wollerton (@meganwollerton) January 17, 2015
@meganwollerton Eerie...pukey. Main character has the plague, so kind of a nauseating pairing.
— Rich Brown (@rh_brown) January 17, 2015
@rh_brown Imagine Sharknado was more fun. Sudden red for blood spatters, what have you.
— Ry Crist (@rycrist) January 17, 2015
If anything, this light show showcases the appeal of a mature smart gadget with an open API. Lots of cool, creative integrations. #12monkeys
— Ry Crist (@rycrist) January 17, 2015
Nice light transition to blue, brown and back to plague green on #12monkeys just now
— Megan Wollerton (@meganwollerton) January 17, 2015
These sorts of color-changing integrations can work really well with video games. Would love to see some from Hue.
— Ry Crist (@rycrist) January 17, 2015
Kind of an out-of-nowhere orange now. Characters outside a brick mansion about to try to kill a guy at a party, I think.
— Rich Brown (@rh_brown) January 17, 2015
I'm liking this purple color a lot... pic.twitter.com/xOZPLY4bKo
— Megan Wollerton (@meganwollerton) January 17, 2015
There's a moodiness to the show, so I guess subtlety makes sense. But I keep waiting for something exciting to happen on both lights and TV.
— Rich Brown (@rh_brown) January 17, 2015
I'll take this commercial break to remind you of Philips' previous TV mood light attempt, Ambilight: http://t.co/Cw80LBjTG2
— Rich Brown (@rh_brown) January 17, 2015
Police lights flashing, but the Hue lights average out to purple. Kind of disappointed. http://t.co/RuFIOLrGkS
— Ry Crist (@rycrist) January 17, 2015
This is a cool transition. 2 watches doing a time paradox thing, lights changing to blue. This was the demo I saw. Looks good here too.
— Rich Brown (@rh_brown) January 17, 2015
Cool little climactic moment in the premiere. Probably the busiest the lights got all night. http://t.co/ZqOpNbVWE2
— Ry Crist (@rycrist) January 17, 2015
"Stay hidden. They're going to be looking for you." pic.twitter.com/tOk6lxHE8p
— Megan Wollerton (@meganwollerton) January 17, 2015
Welp. Not sure what I wanted from these lights. Wouldn't buy expressly for this, but I suppose if I already owned them it might be fun.
— Rich Brown (@rh_brown) January 17, 2015
We hope the above gives you at least some idea about what it was like.