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This is a totally subjective post, I will freely admit. And I don't want to come off as some sort of TV watching snob, but I just don't get it. Above and beyond anything else, my answer to every reason someone might have to explain to me why I should watch Survivor, or The Bachelor, or Wife Swap, or Big Brother, Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader, or Dancing With The Stars, or newest arrivals like The Singing Bee and it's immediate copycat Don't Forget The Lyrics...is...who cares?
Who cares?
Who cares what these people do? Who cares about their squabbles, their highs and lows, their battles for supremacy....their lives. Who cares.
Other than the fact that these reality show "performers" (read: erstwhile cattle call applicants) have turned their amateur status into professional status because it is economically viable for the networks to make it happen...these people, with stars in their eyes, would almost surely never find their way to network television other than as a member of a studio audience. Or porn shoots in Van Nuys.
I know why the networks make the shows...no big actor contracts, no real scripts, just concepts, so it's way cheaper...but why do people at home, continue to watch? I can understand checking out some of the earliest efforts back around 2000 when Survivor exploded on the scene...but it's 7 years later! I checked out Survivor at the beginning, I have checked out numerous other shows too, including non-contest-driven shows like Dog The Bounty Hunter and even, gulp The Surreal Life. But then, I had to take a pass. It's like, alright I get it...Dog and his crew chase fugitive, catch fugitive, lecture fugitive, rinse, repeat. And after allowing myself to watch washed up celebrities humiliate themselves once or twice, I could no longer stomach the inanity.
Who cares?
I don't get it.
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