[REALITY-TV]
When the first thing your friend does upon seeing you in the morning is say, "Did you hear who got voted off of..." it is a bad sign.
The world is being taken over by -quote/unquote- reality television. I know, this epidemic shocked me as well with its fast and voracious attack on the human species at it's heart and soul: television.
At first it was the stupid, irritating, but harmless events such as "Survivor, 1, 2, and 3", "Temptation Island, 1, 2, 4, and 4", and a rather small list of others. Real TV was still accessable, you just had to chanel surf away (far, far, away) from the reality TV.
Now, it's gaining on us. Joining the list are such facinating concepts of so-called reality as "who wants to marry my middle-aged dad", "how many ways can I humiliate myself", "let's liposuck my whole body for america's amusement", "X-treme makeovers", "which guy is gay, I wish I knew", "honey, let's get married on tv", and the ultimate favorite, "let's live with a bunch of strangers and be forced to share all our intimate moments on tv, but, ooh there's a hitch, someone's getting voted off".
No, I'm not bitter. Why do you ask? Actually, I don't care if you ask, and I lied. I'm damn bitter. Recently, this plague has reached new heights. Not only has the former WWF now WWE (damn lawsuits) been reduced to a cheap soap-opera due to losing ratings to reality TV. (How can people prefer the above-mentioned disasters and bullshit to people fake-wrestling and smashing one another with chairs? I'll never understand!) But worse, far worse, it's starting to infect the whole group of networks so that all GOOD TV must be cancelled IMMEDIATELY, regardless of ratings, fans, or plots!
That's right. I speak of the demise of far too many good shows. Dark Angel was awhile ago, though tragic. But now, it's happened. Angel. Angel is ending, being cancelled, despite an abundance of fans (despite DB's gaining weight, which, honestly, couldn't they force him on a treadmill? And, if we'll watch though that, nothing will deter us). AN ABUNDANCE!
So many that all sorts of banners, sites, (such as savingangel.org, saveangel.com and any other name they can think of because organization, nah) and posters are popping up like popcorn.
Even with witty slogans, such as "We'll follow Angel through hell, or to another network."
Sadly, it's all a last ditch effort of nothing. Why? Because reality TV has plagued the minds of America, so that everyone's watching anxiously "Big Brother 15" but nobody cares about television that has GOOD SCRIPTS!
Because, let's be real, reality TV is nothing more than a soap opera, and they have the scripts to prove it.
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