Re: Reality TV Slavery vs. Scripted TV Luxury

WQ wrote:

On Jan 11, 8:14 pm, "Default User" <defaultuse...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
WQ wrote:

--- Seriously, are you trying to convince me that a glance at
American Gladiators couldn't yield a conclusion that it amounts
to being little more than yesterday's vomit?

I seriously am. It's not likely to be great TV (although the
original had its fun moments) but you aren't going to be able to
make any sort of informed evaluation without being, well, INFORMED.


--- Seeing grown-up people wearing silly outfits, doing idiotic stunts
and passing it all off as "excitement" and "entertainment" is all the
"informed" I need to make my judgement that it's yesterday's vomit.
Watching the plants grow in my room is more stimulating.

So you say, yet You Didn't Actually Watch. You do not have an informed
opinion. You have predjudice.


Then ask yourself how you can skip
through all those channels you flip through, glancing as you go
along, and not settle for any of the shows on those channels
until you arrive at the one you really want to watch?

I don't do that. I use the guide to see what's on, and switch to
specific channels. I haven't flipped through channels in years.


---- Yeah. Uh-huh. Sure. I wasn't born yesterday, you know. David
will testify to that.

I take you don't believe? Kind of silly. It's far easier to "flip
through" using the guide. Why would anyone with an onscreen guide do it
the other way? I can check the channels while watching I currently am,
and see what's coming on the next hour or so at the same time.


Because in your own glancing
you've already determined in a fraction of a second that all those
other shows amount to yesterday's vomit.

Nonsense. I make determinations about what I want to watch at that
moment. It's not any kind of critique of a show. Now, there are
shows that I have watched that I think suck. However, there are
lots of shows I've never seen or only "glanced" at, that I feel
probably aren't for me based on descriptions I've read or that sort
of thing.

--- This is confusing. You don't flip through channels and, hence,
don't glance through shows by "accident" in the process,

Right.

yet there are
shows you've never seen or only "glanced" at... ?

Right. I have glanced at shows . . . deliberately. Not accidentally.
See the difference?

But you just said
you don't do any of that glancing stuff at all.

I said I don't flip through channels. I said I don't glance at things
accidentally. Try to read what's actually said. Then again, actual
facts never really are part of your plan, are they? WQ opinions are all
that matter, firmly fixed ahead of time for convenience.

And if you've
"glanced" at a show but won't watch it because of some description
you've read of it, yet your accidental glancing might prove that the
description is wrong, does that mean you still won't watch it on the
basis of what you read even though your "glancing" of it tells you,
"Hey, maybe this show isn't that bad after all."?

It's always possible. There are more shows on TV than I can possibly
watch. I have to make draconian decisions ahead of time to narrow down
the field. There are probably shows that I've decided not to watch that
I might regret. Heck, this group has convinced me to re-evaluate, like
with Heroes.

Some real TV watcher you are.

What exactly is a real TV watcher? Apparently someone who comments on
shows he's never watched.

At least I ended up watching the first season of The
Simple Life and My Big Fat Obnoxious Fiance, and I hate reality shows.

You want a medal? You watched them, so you can comment.


The difference is that I don't proclaim those to be bad shows (some
of them are quite popular and/or well-reviewed by others). I
certainly don't come here and whinge about how awful they are based
on all the NON-watching of them that I did.


--- People who refuse to say what's bad or good, especially when it
comes to TV shows, are either just being ridiculously politically
correct in their view that there is no bad or good TV or they're
simply incapable of arriving at their own definition of what is
inherently bad or good TV.

You're inferring things never said. I have no problem telling you which
shows I think are good or bad. However, that is not necessarily the
same as shows I like or dislike. There are shows I recognize as quality
writing and acting, that I don't like and don't watch. There's also
unabashedly trashy crap that I do.

But I will never pass judgment on a show I haven't watched. Never.

--- I never whinge about shows.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!


--- If you say so.

So say we all. You're showing yourself to be even more of defensive
crybaby when challenged than usual. Quit while you're behind.




Brian

--
If televison's a babysitter, the Internet is a drunk librarian who
won't shut up.
-- Dorothy Gambrell (http://catandgirl.com)
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