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Nov. 28, 2004 I don’t know about you but I have had enough of reality television. Reality, what is reality? I think somewhere along the line we got the word reality mixed up with a thing called television programming and there is nothing real about it. First you got a group of people on a deserted island and don’t get me wrong it was great, new and exciting but folks didn’t we get enough of that watching Gilligan’s Island reruns for thirty years? I think so. Then we watched as they made people do crazy stunts and eat nasty things. My, oh my, it sounds like Truth or consequences to me. Now we watch as people go under the knife and transform them selves into swans. I had seen that on the medical channels folks. Then we have the romantic shows where girls meet a millionaire or visa versa. She meets him or he meets her but he or she is not really rich but then again with the special twist they add in the mix maybe he or she is really rich but look like a poor person. Then with the promise of marriage for a grand finally which is redundant in the first place. What the heck is that for a prize. People, we need more reality shows and I have came up with the perfect one. We could take an average Joe and watch him as he struggles through life raising a family with a woman he loves. We set up baits, men hitting on his wife to see if she will take the bait. Then we show the husband and watch his reaction. When the pooh pooh hits the fan we set up a ring and watch first him and the other guy go at it for fifteen rounds. Next, we have a match between his wife and the other woman we never knew about because our average Joe was too sly for his wife but not for us. Now the too winners get to go at it for another fifteen rounds and the winners of that match will get to stay together. This show would be flawless and exciting. I kid you with this subject because we now have thirty six so called reality shows on the air today. There are the first three which are still great for those who love that sort of thing but the rest are poor imitations of the others, rip offs if you will. Give me an old movie or a good comedy show and Ill survive. Give me a good game show and it will be good enough for me. I have enough reality in my own life and really don’t need to watch others so called reality. I don’t need to see swingers switching partners or people eating each other to survive. I don’t need to watch a romance forming under false circumstances nor do I need to see a fake billionaire pushing people around then laughing at them behind their backs or even fake ones for that matter. I don’t need to see nanny’s or fathers checking out their daughter’s dates. I have my own problems here doing all of the above. All and all it is labeled great entertainment
but really folks I think reality should be left
to the news casters and not to network producers,
don’t you think? Oh I know what you are
thinking. Why doesn’t he just turn the channel?
Well you have a great case but a lousy lawyer. I
turn and turn but reality has it that they are
all over the television. I mostly watch DVD’s
and some sit coms but never reality television.
I am a reality show. Life is a reality show. I
need not be shown this by strangers. I need not
anymore reality other then what I have. Gilligan
where are you little buddy when we need you?
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