Teral
Helpy McHelphelp
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« on: 05-29-2005 08:38 »
« Last Edit on: 05-29-2005 08:38 »
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So Juliet started a new thread for season 6 of Big Brother, most likely in the hope of finding other Big Brother fans to discuss the show with. As always when someone start a new thread about reality shows, it quickly got filled with people telling how rubbish that show is and how much they don't watch the show. Well, I think Juliet knows a lot of people don't watch they show and hate reality shows with the burning intensity of a thousand suns. But then again that's not why she started the thread, is it? So feel free to bitch and moan about reality shows here, and leave the other threads to the fans of said shows. I don't like reality shows, or even watch them, but if other people want to, fine by me. I'm not going to spoil their fun. The same way I don't want people to butt in to my Star Trek and LOTR threads to tell me what a shitty show/movie it is. Knock yourself out.
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i_c_weiner
DOOP Secretary
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I've got a new idea for a reality show! It's called "The Tale of Nuking" and it follows the events leading up to the nuking of reality show headquarters. Does anybody like it?
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Juliet
DOOP Secretary
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Teral is right and I like to thank him for that one. People have different opinion on about reality TV shows and I am not forcsing people to like and they not forcing me to hate them. ----------------
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Nurdbot
DOOP Secretary
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Here's my old little Reality show, it's called 'Dumping Washed up Television Celebrities and Juliet in a room full of furniture and a fire place!'.
Oh wait, I can do that with the Sims or Sims 2. Or actually live my own life.
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Shaucker
Professor
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Here's my new show idea: "Urinate on Ryan Seacrest." A wacky group of people are boarded together in a house and piss on my least favorite TV host ever.
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Nurdbot
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Also, Reality Television defeats the original purpose of watching TV. We watch TV to escape the reality of our lives.
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Grim
Professor
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I can gladly say I have not seen a single minute of Australia's new big brother. I couldnt even tell you the name of or describe a housemate. Infact I barely turn my tv on. Bit Torrent supplies all my tv these days, all I watch is the news on broadcast tv.
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Nurdbot
DOOP Secretary
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Does Japan have a Big Brother? If not, thank god.
If so, we're all doomed.
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BendingUnit4000
Delivery Boy
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Originally posted by Lrrr_2004: I hope Fox's new show Hell's Kitchen fails miserably. Maybe it'll teach them to stop making reality shows. Failing Reality television shows haven't taught them a thing. It has happened 10000 times before and its bound to happen 10000 times again. They're just hoping for big ratings right out of the gate and once it begins to teeter off, they'll cancel it (like they should) only to replace it with another shit reality show. Can you tell I'm bitter?
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Spacedal11
Space Pope
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Originally posted by Lrrr_2004: If you couldn't tell, I hate reality television, it's not reality if they know there is a camera on them, who's going to act like themselves if they know they're going to be on tv?
God I hate reality tv. You've won the "Makes a Point that I Never Thought of" Award. I very much agree with you. And as BU4000 said, no one care if the shows are hot or not they just want ratings and something to fill time slots with. Can you believe that people prefer this shit to the good shows? I'll be honest, I watch Fear Factor occasionally. It's just to see how stupid people can be and that they'll do anything even if it scares them to get money. People are morons. Brainless morons who need to watch shows that invade peoples personal lives and emotions. Even if they're faking it. Also in my drama class, every term, someone has written a reality TV-based play. When I finally had that class in the final term, the teacher said that I had written the most unique play out of the whole year, and you know whose play was selected to be shown in front of the school? Mine...that's what I would be saying if that were true. But no, the sterotype one that was about dumbass teens getting lost in the woods one. "You've written the most unique play...but we're not gonna do yours!" Bitch.
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Lrrr_2004
Starship Captain
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« Reply #23 on: 06-02-2005 08:11 »
« Last Edit on: 06-02-2005 08:11 »
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Even I watch reality shows sometimes, but not stoopid ones like American Idol or Survivor, I like Viva La Bam. It's pretty good. But if that's a reality show, then so is Jackass, so their not all bad. I don't know who I hate more, Ryan Seacrest or Scott Peterson. Does he still have that show, where he interviews celebrities? Originally posted by aslate: You know it's a shame this thread was created, Julie's is slowly dying. Wha?
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Nurdbot
DOOP Secretary
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Well, an actual Big Brother rip off. Japan has some pretty insane reality television.
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Melllvar
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I think it's interesting that someone brought up the misnomer of "reality" TV, as with cameras around no-one has the ability to behave realistically.
The first series of BB was interesting because it was an unknown quantity, and therefore was taken as an experiment in behavioural pyschology. Now, it's an experiment to see what 13 fuckwits will do to (a) get famous, and (b) make the UK's first live porno movie.
Cobblers.
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Nurdbot
DOOP Secretary
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Originally posted by Leela In Chains: You know why there are such things as reality shows? People watch them!!! Stupid ass TV slaves actually eat this shit that the networks dish out; so of course there will be no end in sight. The average reality show viewer must have little/no life to begin with, so he/she has to compensate by watching other's lives broadcasted on their favourite screen. You people suck!
Long live animation! Except anime... I must kill you now. Slowly.
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Lurrr
Professor
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« Reply #34 on: 06-03-2005 18:39 »
« Last Edit on: 06-03-2005 18:39 »
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I have a theory that there is only a set amount of good quality programming that can be shown on TV at any particular time. In other words, if reality TV weren't big then something else would be. Maybe we'd have even more soaps, crappy sitcoms or perhaps a series of mind-numbing documentaries about how the rich host tea-parties (you think I'm joking about that last one? That was some top quality Brit TV from thirty years ago ). Once reality TV has had it's day, something else will come along and then we'll complain about that. Reality TV has been around for a very long time, remember stuff like 'America's Wildest Police Chases' and dren of that ilk. Big Brother made it popular, the format was sold, remarketed and copied endlessly, and is about to be dropped now that popularity is disappearing. We're the mugs for tuning into it constantly.
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Gorky
DOOP Secretary
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I love the idea of reality television. I mean, it takes a genius to realize the potential people have to make total idiots out of themselves...especially in front of TV cameras.
But, nah, I don't actually watch it. Personally, it disgusts me. It's obvious that, because TV networks are always focusing on a certain demographic, they mold these TV shows to appeal to that demographic. Now, obviously, most guys between the ages of 18 and 40-something (and teenage girls who like to watch hot guys with no brains and serious ego-issues pretend to actually be appealing) truly believe that reality TV is the most brilliant thing ever thought up by those geniuses in Hollywood. These are the people who will one day be those geniuses in Hollywood.
On a sort of related note, the only reality show I ever watched was Joe Millionare (and I'm still ashamed), mostly 'cause I thought that all the women on that show were idiots and that that Evan Marriot dude was a moron. I enjoyed laughing at them...almost too much. So, yeah, that's my "I-used-to-watch-reality-TV-'til-the-aliens-returned-my-brain" anecdote. Anyone else care to share?
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