For the past month or so, adultswim.com has been rolling out what they’ve called “Gold Episodes.” It seemed like an attempt to replicate the online portable streaming that HBO has thusfar capitalized on with their HBOGo application. At first glance, I figured Gold Episodes was going to be a place where you could see even more episodes for shows on the network than on normal video. Looks like I was wrong…

On Friday, September 30th, [ adult swim] plans to close off full episodes to the general public as you need to be subscribed with a cable or satellite provider in order to gain access to Gold Episodes. If you have one of those (currently, with the exception of… oddly enough… Time Warner.) you don’t need to worry. If you’re not subscribed with cable or satellite… well… let’s be honest, you know where you can get episodes anyway.

The upside on this that I’ve noticed thusfar is the fact that we no longer have to wait a week for new episodes, as this past week’s episodes for both Squidbillies and NTSF:SD:SUV are available on Gold. 200+ episodes of [ adult swim] programming both past and present will be made available on .com as well as on both [as] apps for iPhone and iPad.

Is this a good idea? Bad idea? Do you have an opinion? Shout it out in the comments section below!