Monday, October 17, 2005
MTV Chi?
In between Viva La Bam, Sweet Sixteen, Newlyweds, Punk’d, Date MY Mom, and other “Reality” shows, I wonder, where they went wrong. A week later, still watching these shows, delighting in their wet-behind-the-ears innuendos, and the occasional witty fart, it becomes unnecessarily clear what’s
missing in these shows. A lack of dialogue, a lack of plot, a lack of humanity, a lack of….hmm, wait, this is “Reality TV”! DUH! Lol! HEhehehe!
I mean, life is all about not understanding your significant other, destroying your property, wearing “gothic” pink clothes, exercising free speech (fuck you), and the likes.
For most of my sessions with the youth of the IRI, it seems the average middle-class guy and girl believes they are one intelligent leap ahead of most American kids their own age. They believe they have strict and higher knowledge starting from the Ninth grade. They believe they know more about life, and what a decent life means. Obviously, MTV makes everyone look like they have a decent life. It isn’t surprising that so many people, like me, can be lured in by shows like Punk’d, and Viva La Bam.
The destruction and mock violence is funny, knee-slappin’ joy. The gruesome acting is even better. There’s an indelible attraction to the fact that these shows are degrading others; Kutcher wants to “degrade” actors better than him; Bam Margera likes to spend quality time with his Ape…his mother.
I hate to do it, really, but I stopped watching the shows yesterday, and succeeded in spending my time elsewhere, more productively. I sincerely doubt the reality shows that MTV broadcasts all over the world can get anymore recycled than that; like a broken record, the shows are replayed everywhere, and distributed to Arabic channels like Onetv; I don’t think the
