Did Someone Say Reality TV?
245 ViewsThe very mention of reality TV now promotes a reaction in me that I can only describe as the absolute uttermost flesh creeping disdain. *spit* I loathe reality TV. Loathe it to scorn. Gimme a shotgun and I’ll blast the tv while the whiney people are managing their ridiculous tasks in the name of entertainment. I just do not see the point of it. Maybe one program for one series wouldn’t have been so bad but they have to lay it on thick with endless repeats to the point of not being able to escape one reality or another if you turn the tele on at all. I tend not to use mine much and turn it off pretty fast if I get a wiff of Big Brother or any of the other reality shows that I proudly cannot name. The glimpses that I have unfortunately seen, while in a panic to find the remote, have left me in a state of utter confusion as to what the purpose is or what the world’s coming to.
What is so entertaining or educational (ha!) about watching a bunch of loveys shacked up together in a house, an island, a jungle or anywhere else? I DON’T GET IT… and I dont wish to be converted to that mind numbing appreciation club either so don’t try…. at least not while I’ve got paint to watch drying (or a partial eclipse to ignore)!!
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Frederick Wiseman did some great reality documentaries in the late 60s and early seventies. He let the cameras roll in institutions like mental or inner city hospitals. There was a sincere attempt to take a look at society’s underside and expose it. Commericial tv has bastardized this intent. Cops does an ok job of showing what its loke to be a cop these days–but shows like MTV’s, where kids shack up in some exotic location, seem to be a put on–its as if the producers are directing them towards some behavior or another.
I have pm’d Redneck to see if he is willing to aid the cause…I have a feeling he will not only supply the arms but the ammo
Documentaries are a different thing entirely.
I’ve done near three years now without Television, and wow! Do I miss nothing! There are celebrities in tabloids at the supermarket that I don’t know a thing about. I am subjected in bold print headlines to their machinations of coupling or uncoupling, of having babies into their forties, etc. It always surprises me that so many care to inspect those lives and practically ignore their own.
Reality TV I would have to guess was more bourne out of a writer’s strike a few years back. The populace just oddly, along the whole, bought the cheap substitute. It’s only a matter of time until they use celebrities’ lives for reality TV in any manner of situations. Tell me they’ve already gone to that. NO?
You get out of it what you put into it, no matter what the novelty of invention, radio, TV…blah, blah, blah.
Dont ask me what extremes they’ve gone to… I try very hard not to know!
Its the fact that people actually phone in to keep their favourite in the program that I cant understand. We all moan about paying whatever it is for a TV (bloody) licence but somehow we are all conned into paying for the actual programsas well… the sooner people understand that then the quicker we get rid of all that singing dancing eating bugs on ice syndrome that has infected my TV.. the better….
There.. ive got it off my chest…
By the way .. do they have that… celebrity striptease on the TV… I’d phone to keep her with the big brown eyes on…. (every week)
So that’s why you bought that 48″ plasma screen!
people watch it. Nlame them or the corrupt TV rating companies that make decisions for us
or perhaps we could kill them all and live in happiness
that’s Blame not Nlame
thank good ness for that…. I could never nlame them all
I don’t know who’s to blame…. the viewers who watch or the tv companies who churn it out. I dont understand the mentality of either. Maybe people watch it just because they forget how to turn their tv off.
Kill the tvs…. good idea!
nO,NO, NO!
It’s a symbiotic relationship. Marketing executives are paid an alarming chunk of that money that is brought in by advertising. They know to the Nth degree who’s watching what and when. It’s a lot like the arrangement in nature between a certain bug that has a fondness for a certain flower, and neither would exist without the adaptation of each to the other. Watch a David Attenborough nature programme and it will make absolute sense. If the populace watching Television gets more intelligent then the ads and the programmes will follow suit. However, there is the “escape hatch” to paradise in the matter that the more intelligent you become, the less time you want to sit and watch TV. Televison must be the antidote therefore to Adam and Eve first eating from the Tree of Knowledge.
Well the people who watch choose to do so, therefore they are ‘discerning’, which is what the tree of knowledge of good and evil is all about…. the tree of discernment between right and wrong may be a better way of putting it. Free choice to be a fool or otherwise. There is no antidote.
Television is merely a conduit to carry suggestion to the living room.
The Tree of Adult Morality and Responsibility then?
Never heard someone come home from a stressful day at the office and say, “I must go to my room for a bit to try and decide whether or not to watch junk tv tonight, which might help me ‘take a break’ from all what I’ve been through today.” That is, I doubt anyone thinks it through. Considering Adam and Eve didn’t know anything before disobeying God, it is almost necessary to have someone act as an agent, some one whom did have knowledge, e.g., The Serpent who would say to Eve, “Come on, just a nibble. That’s not really eating, is it?”. Or “Try the Fruit of Knowledge. It’s fruity!”
(See Act Three of Ira Glass’ “This American Life”, Jonathan Goldstein reads ‘Adam and Eve’: http://www.thislife.org/pages/descriptions/03/233.html )
Whatever happened to “Light entertainment” .. I keep turning my TV on but… I cant find that channel………. Dut Dut Da De Dut Dut Dut Da De Dut Dut De Da Da
.. steptoe and son .. (for those of you who cant read music)
I’m glad you clarified that… I thought it was the Twilight Zone.
I can’t say too much, the other half is a reality TV addict. Sure anyway, the Internet is the new TV. We can find whatever we want, whenever we want. Who needs that auld shite anyway?
You have our sympathy. They say that after a while you don’t feel the pain!
I like a coupl eof “reality TV shows” The Apprentice and Ramsay kitchen nightmares…but that Big Brother is the biggest pile of bollox in TV history. How can anyone watch bland people preforming bland tasks? Did i ever tell you I was asked to appear in Wife Swap?
No you failed to mention wife swap. Let me know when that one’s on!! heh!
they are starting a new survivor here which has too teams. One from Greece and the other from Turkey. A new low for our TV
All in the spirit of reconcilliation? I doubt it somehow.