Jan 16 2009
TV - “Terrible Viewing”
I know I have complained about Television before, but here it is again.
Ghost Hunters? Ever watch that one? These people are walking into a castle, or mansion, or jailhouse, etc. that “hasn’t been inhabited in 150 years”. One brave (?) person will be tiptoeing into a dark room, whispering about how long it has been since anyone was here. So tell me, did the guy holding the camera not walk into the room before they did? How else did the camera get there? And they whisper! If no one is there - then why are you whispering? Then they say “Listen - do you hear that?” No, I don’t - all I hear is you- whispering.
How about the hunting shows? There again with the whispering. “See that big buck over there?” Yes, I do, I think that’s the whole point of this show, isn’t it? And we are expected to believe that the huge buck just wandered out of the woods in full view of all those hidden cameras and sound equipment and video technicians, who are all whispering! Poor critter was penned up and enticed with food to go walking out into the clearing so some idiot with an expensive gun could shoot it! Sportsmanship! Yeah!!
The same thing goes for the Fishing shows. We watch a professional fisherman go out in his multi-thousand dollar boat, using his multi-thousand dollar fishing equipment, to catch a huge fish so he can release it back into the lake. And they expect us to believe that they sat around all day long with their camera equipment, floating around in the lake, just waiting for that big ole’ fish to come swimming by and take a chunk out of the special, pattented, life-like, one-of-a-kind, can’t miss, fishing lure. Yeah! So who’s the guy down there in the water, taking the fish out of the submerged cage and hooking it up for the professional fisherman to “catch”? Then they expect us to believe that the man actually caught 4 more identical fish in another spot within the next 15 minutes. Sportsmanship! Yeah!
Oh, and we can’t forget “Hollywood Housewives” or “Atlanta Housewives”. Exactly whose reality are we watching? If I wanted to watch spoiled, conceited, brassy, big-mouthed, created-by-a-plastic-surgeon women, I would go to the nearest high-dollar Health Spa and sit in the lobby. Five minutes worth of these women and I am screaming for my husband to change the channel, NOW!
But they didn’t ask me to pick what they put on TV, and I know that everybody is entitled to their own opinion - no matter how stupid it is!
I’m having one of those days - “If you can’t say anything good about someone, sit right here by me.”
