Television Rant: Prove me wrong.
POSTED BY: HiroStone
UPDATED: Monday, February 23, 2004 16:35
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I 100% agree with ya on this one.I am tired of changing the channels to waych my favorite shows and see that they are ither being canceled or replaced for the season by some damn reality show.
That's why I only stick with my favorites.Although G.I.Joe comes on very early in the morning on the cartoon network,I still watch it.I am tired of watching a show so much and than turning on the t.v. the following week to find out it's been canceled.
Either I am on the internet,babysitting,or watching my favorite shows.That's it.Who's Line Is It Anyway?,in my opinion,is an amazingly hilarious show.It is now only shown on ABC Family because it was taken off ABC last year.What's next?!Replacing The Simpsons with "I'm Married To My Wife's Breast"?
I can't stand reality t.v.
I was a devoted fan of Fear Factor until it got old.I watch Buffy on FX @ 4 and 5pm,Who's Line @ 10&10:30pm,and every sunday I watch adult swim on the cartoon network.There seems to be nothing but reality shows on.Oh I also can't live without the Food Network.Nooo.I don't watch much.Blame it on all of those damn cancelations.And i agree on the whole thing regarding Charmed.If anything,Angel should be replacing Charmed and Charmed should get the boot.
~Jodi~
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Channain,
I have not yet begun to rant!!!!!
BOOK
That young man's very brave.
MAL
(sarcastic cute voice)
Yeah. He's my hero.
-Hiro (get it?!?!?)
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ruxton-i agree.my news comes from the daily show(sad)and the bbc.to quote david cross-how fucking sad is it that i have to read newspapers from OTHER COUNTRIES to just get the news!KEEP FLYING.
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Don't blame me--I watch foreign news and the "Daily Show".
Don't laud foreign stuff though just 'cause it's a dissident opinion. The French media are not saints, and they manipulate just as much as ours do--they just have a different agenda. I'm in Taiwan now and the media here is completely irresponsible--with just as slanted a view as FOXNews (yes, yes--evil), and CNN (ugh). Before that I lived in Beijing. Imagine being there and having all the foreign news blocked out from your internet access.
So actually being in the States is a great position to get the best news, just because you have so much more available. Again, the rant against the mainstream.
Anyway, rants aside (just me--you all carry on): this is just another reason to continue getting our dissident opinions out there any way we can (cf. HQ thread).
I'm really fond of Jeremy Neish's ideas especially the idea of Firefly episodes that go straight to DVD on a subscription system. ( http://fireflymovie.com/directdvd.html) Just brilliant. Imagine--bypassing television altogether, but with the kind of quality you can't get through the Internet yet (consistently). This may be the wave of the future--more people I know are dropping TV altogther (bad idea in my opinion--that's how I discovered FF) and just watching DVDs. They like the control, the absence of ads, and the better liklihood of a quality product.
But there's plenty good still on TV. Showtime has become "special interest show central" but it's got "Dead Like Me" (fantastic show) and basic cable's Sci Fi is doing good work (with some exceptions). And even the evil WB network has "Smallville" which despite the creepy song tie-ins is an amazingly well-plotted show with solid character dev. The real evil isn't reality shows, which are just another fad (remember variety shows in the '70s?) but stuff like "Enterprise" which pervert the essence of the world. I'd rather see FF stay off the air than it become /that/. Remember the TV execs from "The Simpsons"? I'm guessing that's drawn from experience. (And y'all heard the commentary, which gave that impression.)
Wow, am I ranting..! And here I said I was done. Okay, I'm done. Dubuqi everybody. Anyway, while ranting, could y'all think up some action we could take to, y'know, take back the TV?
http://dryope.typepad.com/superfly/
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Originally posted by SerenityNow:
Anyway, while ranting, could y'all think up some action we could take to, y'know, take back the TV?
Yes...but it involves fake network TV HQ ID cards, portable defibrillators...and caskets.
RIVER
Purple elephants are flying.
MAL
Good. Thanks for the update.
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Rant on Hiro!
I'm new around here, a lurker for months, but basically I've had to give in and start posting cos I like the lot of you!
I live in a small dark hole where the news of Angel's doom didn't find me until yesterday. I actually started crying. I feel like an idiot for saying that, but I did. I couldn't help myself, I no longer have valid TV programming.
I don't watch Reality TV because I'm not an idiot. I think all those shows should just be called 'Hey check out the dumb ass' because that's all that they are about. For crying out loud 'My Big Fat Obnoxious Fiance' the fiance guy? Yeah he was the cave monster who gave back Spike his soul on Buffy. No reality whatsoever there. All the people on Fear Factor ARE PROFESSIONAL STUNT PEOPLE!! Nothing reality there. America's Top Model? Did Tyra Banks get the memo that Super Models don't exist anymore? If not someone ought to reality that memo over to her.
I'm sick of TV. The fact is isn't even the critics fault anymore. The critics LOVE Angel, they LOVED Firefly, they LOVED Dark Angel (another of the RIP shows I still mourn), but the critics can't save a show. Neilsen families are a joke. I can't see how 10,000 families can say crap about a nations TV prefrences.
I'm sick of trying to save my favorite TV shows, In the last 4 years I have worked to save at lest one show per year, and sometimes 2 or 3. That's ridiculous! And now there is crap on TV! We don't need 3 law and orders or 2 CSIs! We need new innovative interesting programming!
Yet Tru Calling and Charmed get to stay around a bit longer??? That's it, I know what Simon meant when he said 'This is what going mad feels like.' I'm pretty sure I've gone mad and may in fact be living in an alternate universe.
Bah!
Adrianna
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My turn.
The single most insulting thing, to me, about many otherwise barely palatable TV shows is... the laughtrack.
It's a direct insult to the viewer, insinuating that they're "too dumb" to catch onto a joke they've seen coming for half an hour!
Not to mention when you base all your humor on others misfortune, pain, or personal humiliation, exactly what kind of folk are you trying to reach ? some people do NOT find pleasure in the misery of others, even in entertainment.
To run a laughtrack over something like that, as if it's supposed to be funny - I cannot begin to put it to words.
Imagine, if you will, footage of our casualties (regardless of where you stand on the issue) in Iraq with a laughtrack superimposed on it ?
Not funny, and very offensive - so while it's less offensive for lesser misery, the principle of it is still there.
Television programming these days runs a cycle of sad...bad...mad, and on occasion whet's it appetite on evil.
-frem
diefuxdie.
PS - I am still convinced it's reality-tv that created the reavers, they became desensitized to it, act out, and get worse and worse, just like reality-tv does.
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Now, some of you are more familiar with me than others, so you that are know that I've been saying this very thing since I registered on the site-
But part of the problem is that people watch this stuff- They get the menu from Fox that says 'Fat Midget Millionaire' and they still tune in - Just for a minute maybe, or just for laughs, but they still tune in- It's not the nielsens (which I agree are outdated), it's the Joneses (as in, 'keeping up with') - I hear several people at work or the University say 'I hate reality TV,' then laugh about what happened on the show- If you HATE IT, why WATCH IT? But they do- Fox killed FF, I killed Fox on my TV- Wont watch another Fox show- If everyone who actually said they hated reality TV and meant it would stop tuning in, there'd be a revolution in TV land- But they dont, so there isnt- No offense to the folks on here, all of which are good and true BCoats , but some of you do the same things ("Fox has a record of show killing, but I still watch the channel"-I ask you, why?)
People think (wrongly perhaps) that that reality stuff is 'cutting edge'- But it isnt, they're just getting force-fed garbage when they could have steak if they stood their programming ground- Someone on this site has the tag that goes something like, 'the more people I meet, the more I like my dogs' or something similar; and that is how I'm beginning to feel about the average American TV watcher 
Every complaint you all have said is 100% accurate, but I dont know what to tell you- It appears, even though perhaps we here dont do it, that people enjoy watching other people look stupid- It makes them feel good about themselves- But my thought on that is, if watching someone else making a fool of themself makes you feel good, you need to re-evaluate your personality, because you arent a good person-
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He looked bigger when I couldn't see him.
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Hey, Seven%, I have read in recent months that TV Execs don't know why they're losing their audiences. From that, it would appear they really don't know what to do. Abandoning Nielsen would most likely be a good idea, but that requires intelligence within the executive offices of TV-land.
If in fact TV continues to lose its audience, maybe it means more folks are seeing the light, and more TVs are turned off in favor of the best reality show, one's own life. Or so we can furiously hope.
I live in a really remote corner of the country. I pay for satellite TV and, like you, signed up for FOX when I read about Firefly on the Internet. As soon as Firefly went off the air, I cancelled FOX.
More soon....
.......Ruxton
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Hey Shiny. Heads Up! I liked your idea so much (defibrillators...and caskets), that here's my pitch:
REALITY TV AS YOU'VE ONLY DREAMED OF!
Welcome to our NEW TV show, "Zap The TV Executive."
Its LIVE, and will start soon in the Fox studio offices!
Come along with us as we sneak into a top TV exec's office with our steady cam. Thrill to the look of horror on their faces when we whip out our 100-megavolt electrodes and they realize THEY'RE IT! Dance along with them as they "skip the light fantastic" as the current courses through their bodies! You'll smile with satisfaction as, each week, we zap yet another top TV executive who cancelled one good show too many.
And that's not all! Play our "Guess the Top Brand" game! Each zapped executive gets the name of one of the cancelled shows BRANDED into their foreheads BEFORE we turn on the current! How many will get the FIREFLY brand? How many, the JAKE 2.0? How about ANGEL? Or will another great, cancelled TV show take top honors? Send in a Wheaties boxtop with your best guess as to which show will get the MOST BRANDED FOREHEADS! Winner gets to apply their favorite brand to the executive of their choice.
The reality show that CAN'T be cancelled, coming soon to a network near you.
......R
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