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| From | "Stewart Mason" <craigtorso@verizon.net> |
| Subject | Re: INXS thread, my two cents (Canadian) |
| Date | Sun, 04 Dec 2005 18:54:34 -0500 |
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From: "bob" <segarini@rogers.com>
> Oh please...the best 'reality' show is the one you live.
Gee, really? Well, in that case, why do you have a TV in the first
place?
> If you want to watch clowns doing what looks like something
> dangerous, go to a circus. If you want to have an 'Amazing Race',
> get someone to pay for a trip around the world and stick
> pre-arranged, totally controlled obstacles in your way...just
> Bruckheimer's office cashing in on the current trend towards
> 'mediocrity' in the flatlands...and of course he did it better than
> anyone else.
Actually, I didn't watch The Amazing Race for years because
Bruckheimer's other shows are such crap, and I'm really surprised that
a hack like that is involved in a quality show. The worst thing about
television isn't the reality shows - -and wow, what a huge newsflash
that they're totally fake set-ups, I don't think *anyone's* ever
noticed THAT before -- it's crap like CSI, CSI: New York, CSI: Miami
and all the other shows that make a point of having official-sounding
initials in their titles. (Why not just make "Friends: Toronto"?
Recycle the same scripts, just set it in the Tim Horton's in Yorkville
instead of a coffee shop in the Village.)
> And yes...I do know a lot about this stuff even though I don't watch
> it...I read. The same habit has also kept me from sticking my hand
> in airplane propellers, feeding the bears, and drinking anything
> marked, 'toxic', because I think I'd better see for myself.
Plus, it gives you another reason to feel superior to the rest of the
world, and that's always useful.
S
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