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[The Devlish Redhead]

I get it's cheaper to make these shows. But geeze we do have a kind of glut of them at the moment..

One thing that really seems to **** me off is that there's 3 kinds of main show. Home reno shows, lifestyle type shows, and cooking shows..

The thing that gets me is that they carefully pick their contestants and at least one person or team will be on any of those shows with some kind of unique sob story.  This is what shits me off.  They have to force feed us someone's sob story to win votes or viewers..

</end rant..

[Rawgrim]

[Fidite Nemini]

Pfft, I don't even have a TV any longer. Been five years since I last had a TV plugged in at my own place(s). The only thing I still watch is the occasional sports event and then only streamed via Internet. And I do occasionally take the opportunity to watch a couple movies on Sky when I'm visiting my family, which is maybe two, three times a year at maximum.

 

There's better entertainment to be found everywhere that isn't free TV. Anime streaming, dropping a couple bucks in the local bookstore for a new novel, looking up manga scans or adding to my videogame libraries ... all those things offer better value than wasting the electricity to run a TV.

[Laamaa]

I hardly watch tv either because of this show (Seriously, when you change the channel it's either cooking stuff or dance/sing competitions). The only "reality" kinda show I liked was The Quest. It's was a cheesy story but still entertaining tbh.

 

 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2933118/

[TheClonesLegacy]

>Implying reality TV is still relevant enough to complain about.
Lol.

[mybudgee]

 

Spoiler

this guy is the ONLY good thing about TV anymore

[Inquisitor Recon]

Reality TV is merely the most visible symptom of the decay of civilization.

[ObserverStatus]

I get it's cheaper to make these shows. But geeze we do have a kind of glut of them at the moment..

One thing that really seems to **** me off is that there's 3 kinds of main show. Home reno shows, lifestyle type shows, and cooking shows..

The thing that gets me is that they carefully pick their contestants and at least one person or team will be on any of those shows with some kind of unique sob story.  This is what shits me off.  They have to force feed us someone's sob story to win votes or viewers..

</end rant..

So what dude? Just cancel your cable, it's like $200 a month these days. It wouldn't be worth it even without reality TV bringing down the curve.

[Inquisitor Recon]

People are stupid and easily guilted into voting for somebody by an impressive and probably fictitious sob story, this shouldn't be a surprise. If you ever end up on reality TV just make up the most heartbreaking BS possible and you'll have greatly increased your odds.

[L. Han]

I bet the creators themselves don't really like it on any level. 'Cept for the fact that it makes them

Spoiler

 

[Isichar]

I was watching the history channel the other day and it was almost entirely reality TV. What happened to documentaries? What happened to actually learning about stuff?

I don't mind reality TV in small doses but the amount of it just goes to show what garbage cable TV has become. Streaming is the way to go nowadays.

[Jstatham1227]

[bmwcrazy]

People are stupid and easily guilted into voting for somebody by an impressive and probably fictitious sob story, this shouldn't be a surprise. If you ever end up on reality TV just make up the most heartbreaking BS possible and you'll have greatly increased your odds.

 

It's the same with college application essay. 

 

You should always write a sob story about you or your family. You know, anything to increase your chance of admission.

[Cypher0020]

I do like having a tv for news and stuff, but I've had it off for a few days now and I love it.   I basically use my dvr to record things if I'm at work, and watch when I get home.....but beyond that, I've watched like...zero live tv.

[mybudgee]

It's the same with college application essay. 

 

You should always write a sob story about you or your family. You know, anything to increase your chance of admission.

And dating

 

 

[Dermain]

I get it's cheaper to make these shows. But geeze we do have a kind of glut of them at the moment..

One thing that really seems to **** me off is that there's 3 kinds of main show. Home reno shows, lifestyle type shows, and cooking shows..

The thing that gets me is that they carefully pick their contestants and at least one person or team will be on any of those shows with some kind of unique sob story.  This is what shits me off.  They have to force feed us someone's sob story to win votes or viewers..

</end rant..

 

They're all scripted. Before the show is even filmed they already have a "winner".

 

I was watching the history channel the other day and it was almost entirely reality TV. What happened to documentaries? What happened to actually learning about stuff?

I don't mind reality TV in small doses but the amount of it just goes to show what garbage cable TV has become. Streaming is the way to go nowadays.

 

"We know you'd rather watch a historical documentary, but instead we're showing this show where some guy is trying to sell a rag that George Washington once used to wipe his ass with!"

[Isichar]

"We know you'd rather watch a historical documentary, but instead we're showing this show where some guy is trying to sell a rag that George Washington once used to wipe his ass with!"

 

God, that's exactly it too! There's so many of these junk scavenging shows it's crazy.

 

I saw another one on the history channel where this guy is looking for human giants that supposedly once roamed the earth (they were like 5 meters tall or somethings) and he kept talking about how he was a skeptic but then like any freaking thing that happened on his trip became "proof of giants" the guy gets sick on the plane and he goes on to say supposedly there was a curse on anyone who searched for these giants and he didn't start believing until then.

 

This is what passes off as learning nowadays on TV

[Commander Rpg]

I get it's cheaper to make these shows.

It's not that cheaper, but it brings a lot of money with a small effort.

[The Devlish Redhead]

God, that's exactly it too! There's so many of these junk scavenging shows it's crazy.

 

I saw another one on the history channel where this guy is looking for human giants that supposedly once roamed the earth (they were like 5 meters tall or somethings) and he kept talking about how he was a skeptic but then like any freaking thing that happened on his trip became "proof of giants" the guy gets sick on the plane and he goes on to say supposedly there was a curse on anyone who searched for these giants and he didn't start believing until then.

 

This is what passes off as learning nowadays on TV

 

 

OMG I want to torture myself and see this. What's it called?

 

BTW the only "reality TV" I have ever watched are

 

Mythbusters

Any of the series that has James May

Route 66 with Billy Connelly

[Isichar]

OMG I want to torture myself and see this. What's it called?

 

I'd have to look it up again as I don't remember. If I can find out I'll let you know though. The part that made the whole show painful though is the claims of being a skeptic when it was painfully obvious they were already convinced these things existed.

 

I remember someone on a different show that summed up my thoughts towards these sort of things perfectly when she said something along the lines of: I haven't even been convinced there's even sufficient evidence to say that these things even exist at all and yet you already have people jumping ahead and discussing the cultures and societies of these things.

 

Some of these type of shows get so deep into their own BS they forget they haven't even gotten through the first stages of proving squat. Kind of the same thing with the ghost shows. Someone sets out to find out if ghosts are real and before they've even determined that they've started talking about different types of ghosts and what's anchoring them to the world and all this kind of stuff.

[The Devlish Redhead]

I'd have to look it up again as I don't remember. If I can find out I'll let you know though. The part that made the whole show painful though is the claims of being a skeptic when it was painfully obvious they were already convinced these things existed.

 

I remember someone on a different show that summed up my thoughts towards these sort of things perfectly when she said something along the lines of: I haven't even been convinced there's even sufficient evidence to say that these things even exist at all and yet you already have people jumping ahead and discussing the cultures and societies of these things.

 

Some of these type of shows get so deep into their own BS they forget they haven't even gotten through the first stages of proving squat. Kind of the same thing with the ghost shows. Someone sets out to find out if ghosts are real and before they've even determined that they've started talking about different types of ghosts and what's anchoring them to the world and all this kind of stuff.

 

 

It's like the "ancient aliens" people. They are so convinced they are on the money and know it is fact they haven't done the first steps to prove their case..

[Dermain]

I'd have to look it up again as I don't remember. If I can find out I'll let you know though. The part that made the whole show painful though is the claims of being a skeptic when it was painfully obvious they were already convinced these things existed.

 

I remember someone on a different show that summed up my thoughts towards these sort of things perfectly when she said something along the lines of: I haven't even been convinced there's even sufficient evidence to say that these things even exist at all and yet you already have people jumping ahead and discussing the cultures and societies of these things.

 

Some of these type of shows get so deep into their own BS they forget they haven't even gotten through the first stages of proving squat. Kind of the same thing with the ghost shows. Someone sets out to find out if ghosts are real and before they've even determined that they've started talking about different types of ghosts and what's anchoring them to the world and all this kind of stuff.

 

If I recall correctly, Penn and Teller's Bullsh!t show did an episode on both bigfoot/lochness and ghosts. It was pretty amusing.

 

It's like the "ancient aliens" people. They are so convinced they are on the money and know it is fact they haven't done the first steps to prove their case..

 

You can't prove them wrong so they don't have to prove their own case. They're also not presenting it to scientists, they're presenting it to the general public, and as we should all know the general public will believe anything.

[Isichar]

It's like the "ancient aliens" people. They are so convinced they are on the money and know it is fact they haven't done the first steps to prove their case..

 

Yes, It's exactly like that!

 

And the more they look into it the more EVERYTHING starts to feed into their beliefs. It gets to the point where they're so invested into the story and they see so much as being evidence they can't even look at it remotely rationally anymore.

 

Kind of like the IT believers in the ME3 ending days