RANT: Reality
I'm sorry but reality TV needs to stop calling itself "real". Ever since the Real World became scripted, reality has taken a turn for the ridiculous. Now MTV only shows pseudo reality shows and most contestants are well aware of the potential for "face time" and play-up the drama, essentially becoming a character of themselves. Contestants are pressured to fight, argue, steal, sleep-around and basically act like idots, ya know, like politicians do. But, I don't blame reality TV for forcing un-real emotions, because that’s what the audience wants that, right? If you don’t know this: All TV channels (including news channels) are privately owned businesses and the primary purpose is profit (It is a business remember?) And ultimately the peeps that watch these shows want their ruff-and-tough guys to make-out with the dull-and-drunks bitches, then fight, show-off their muscles, rinse and repeat. So, I don’t complain that these shows exist, but I do think the label of “reality” needs to be stripped. Maybe call them “Sensationalized-Dramas”, or “Dramalities” as they are far from reality.
Watch the first season of The Real World, it is boring as shit. It's like watching C-SPAN with young people. BUT it was reality! Yes, it’s true Dramality lovers, real life is dull and spent mostly on the couch, eating, sleeping, sitting, or talking about nonsense.
Also, Deal or No Deal needs to die, or atleast stop calling itself a "game show"... Where's the game?
1. Pick a number.
2. Decide to pick another number or push a button.
3. End of game.
-- Puh-lease!
The saving grace to the reality genre are shows that are physically difficult, test stamina, wit/smarts and other social experiments like Survivor, the Amazing Race & Solitary. Contestants may come to those “games” with their well thought out “characters” intact, but ultimately after a few days of eating dirt and sand, shitting in holes, racing through bug-infested forests and swimming through muck, rocks and critters to get an game-saving idol, their facade quickly erodes, revealing their true identity underneath: the liar, the cheater, the placater, the aggressor, the crier, the quitter, the worrier, the religious, the mediator, the insane and the “well-rounded”, are all exposed within a few days. Then the viewer roots for the contestant that can identify with their own lives…in the real world.
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Watch the first season of The Real World, it is boring as shit. It's like watching C-SPAN with young people. BUT it was reality! Yes, it’s true Dramality lovers, real life is dull and spent mostly on the couch, eating, sleeping, sitting, or talking about nonsense.
Also, Deal or No Deal needs to die, or atleast stop calling itself a "game show"... Where's the game?
1. Pick a number.
2. Decide to pick another number or push a button.
3. End of game.
-- Puh-lease!
The saving grace to the reality genre are shows that are physically difficult, test stamina, wit/smarts and other social experiments like Survivor, the Amazing Race & Solitary. Contestants may come to those “games” with their well thought out “characters” intact, but ultimately after a few days of eating dirt and sand, shitting in holes, racing through bug-infested forests and swimming through muck, rocks and critters to get an game-saving idol, their facade quickly erodes, revealing their true identity underneath: the liar, the cheater, the placater, the aggressor, the crier, the quitter, the worrier, the religious, the mediator, the insane and the “well-rounded”, are all exposed within a few days. Then the viewer roots for the contestant that can identify with their own lives…in the real world.
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