I read this and I love your love. As a general rule, I hate reality tv though. LOL But it's BECAUSE my embarrassment squick is so high with real people. I just...fucking TWITCH OUT and want to cover everyone's eyes if someone I don't even know falls over or something - I'm like "Eeek! Don't look at them! You saw nothing! Let them believe!"
HOWEVER! Your point is well taken on the "but there's this ONE show that I do like..." issue. Because there ARE occasional R-TV shows that I DO like and will watch. Dirty Jobs is one of those that probably skirts the line between "reality" and "edu-info" but because I love Mike Row so much and kind of want to do the sex with him and his witty brain, I'll end up sitting through that ice fishing one he hosts too when Boy watches it.
Boy and I decided that if they took out the "and tonight! ...one contestant will leave..." stuff, we'd both like the talent-show-y ones a lot better. I hated playing competitive games when I was a kid (I used to cry at Chutes and Ladders when I fell down The Big Ladder) and I hate to watch competitive things now. But Anyway. As a person who deeply dislikes most "reality television" and am VERY likely to not give a show a chance b/c it falls under that label, you made me thinky so thank you. I think that Fandom has given me the tools in this case - I'm not into what you're into, but god love you for being into it, you know?
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Date: 2007-08-28 08:39 pm (UTC)HOWEVER! Your point is well taken on the "but there's this ONE show that I do like..." issue. Because there ARE occasional R-TV shows that I DO like and will watch. Dirty Jobs is one of those that probably skirts the line between "reality" and "edu-info" but because I love Mike Row so much
and kind of want to do the sex with him and his witty brain, I'll end up sitting through that ice fishing one he hosts too when Boy watches it.Boy and I decided that if they took out the "and tonight! ...one contestant will leave..." stuff, we'd both like the talent-show-y ones a lot better. I hated playing competitive games when I was a kid (I used to cry at Chutes and Ladders when I fell down The Big Ladder) and I hate to watch competitive things now. But
Anyway. As a person who deeply dislikes most "reality television" and am VERY likely to not give a show a chance b/c it falls under that label, you made me thinky so thank you. I think that Fandom has given me the tools in this case - I'm not into what you're into, but god love you for being into it, you know?