"Reality Shows" and the people who watch them
Both Bollywood and Television have fallen into predictable patterns. (Yawn)
Either there is no one who can write an original script, or there is no one willing to pay a writer.
Bollywood just scrapes an old movie out of its archives, finds a group of (ahem)actors to play the parts, and hopes the audience will come for the title and noteriety of the current "talent".
Television, the vast wasteland of 50 years ago, is in a similar quagmire. There must not be anyone who can write screenplays to fit the 27" venue either. So they stage a bunch of fake reality shows to fill in the gap between infomercials and commercials. Whether it is the "drama-packed" crap like Survivor, Lost, or Big Brother; the "romance" genre like Bachelor, or the "entertainment" drivel like American Idle, Project Runway, Dancing with the Scars, or Wynona Judd's hog calling contest with "Cowboy" Troy, it is shameful to put it on the air for sensable people to watch.
But I guess that's the problem! There are far too many people out there who don't have a life and couldn't buy one with the prize from the Superball lottery. So they sit in front of the big, wide, digitally enhanced, full color, surround sound home theatre system in their schlock recliner, and revel in the drama of a bunch of wannabe actors and Jerry Springer trying to dance.
And to make matters even worse, we're now finding the shallowest gene pool of four racial groups and pitting them together to fight it out in the jungle! Get real.
Perhaps we can next get sorority girls from California to have a big hair pull with co-eds from Vassar and Smith College! Rah rah Rah!
Either there is no one who can write an original script, or there is no one willing to pay a writer.
Bollywood just scrapes an old movie out of its archives, finds a group of (ahem)actors to play the parts, and hopes the audience will come for the title and noteriety of the current "talent".
Television, the vast wasteland of 50 years ago, is in a similar quagmire. There must not be anyone who can write screenplays to fit the 27" venue either. So they stage a bunch of fake reality shows to fill in the gap between infomercials and commercials. Whether it is the "drama-packed" crap like Survivor, Lost, or Big Brother; the "romance" genre like Bachelor, or the "entertainment" drivel like American Idle, Project Runway, Dancing with the Scars, or Wynona Judd's hog calling contest with "Cowboy" Troy, it is shameful to put it on the air for sensable people to watch.
But I guess that's the problem! There are far too many people out there who don't have a life and couldn't buy one with the prize from the Superball lottery. So they sit in front of the big, wide, digitally enhanced, full color, surround sound home theatre system in their schlock recliner, and revel in the drama of a bunch of wannabe actors and Jerry Springer trying to dance.
And to make matters even worse, we're now finding the shallowest gene pool of four racial groups and pitting them together to fight it out in the jungle! Get real.
Perhaps we can next get sorority girls from California to have a big hair pull with co-eds from Vassar and Smith College! Rah rah Rah!
