Mace MacLeod Posted July 23, 2006 Share Posted July 23, 2006 Just when I thought television couldn't possibly get any worse, what do I see gracing my tv screen tonight? Tommy Lee's Rockstar. Am I really this old? How did this happen? It seems like only yesterday I could mosh along to Dr. Feelgood without shame, then Vince Neil turned up on The Surreal Life, commissurating with MC Hammer, Tammy Faye Bakker, Vannila Ice and that kid/adult/mutant from Webster about how much life sucked. It's not bad enough that every pop culture reference from my youth has become fair game for ridicule on Family Guy, Robot Chicken and Drawn Together, now I have to be subjected to Tommy Lee's Rockstar? Dave Navarro is part of this debacle? Dave! WTF! You played in Jane's Addiction! You guys released one of the most ground-breaking CDs of its age! You had true originality in a bottle, and as if joining Red Hot Chili Peppers wasn't enough of an embarrassment, you're on this horrific show now?! Is this what you're reduced to? Sure, your divorce from Carmen Electra would be a traumatic experience for anyone, and I realize trying to work with a chronic junkie/f!ckup like Perry Farrell has to be rough going, but reality show fodder? Have you really sunk so low that this could be the only thing you think your guitar could belong in? And Jason Newstead. Jason, Jason, Jason. You left Metallica for this? I understand that James Hetfield is an incredible a$$hole, but c'mon man. James and Lars have problems, and you bailed on Metallica to concentrate on your new band, remember? You played with Ozzy Osbourne when that bombed, and you didn't like that guy either. And Tommy freakin' Lee is going to be a stable paycheque?! WHAT DRUGS ARE YOU ON???!!! You're making a fool of yourself! James and Lars are laughing at you! Kirk would be laughing too if he could remember what day this was. At this rate, you may as well sign up with Dave Mustaine and whoever he's got in Megadeth. At least cameras won't be following you around 24/7. Or maybe that's the point. You never did manage to get out from behind Cliff Burton's bass shadow, Jason. That's because you never became your own player the way he did. Understand? Just don't do it, man. True creativity comes from within, not some douchebag reality show. Tommy Lee. What can I say about Tommy Lee. You know, I really liked your drumming at one point. You were one of my favourite drummers behind Keith Moon, John Bonham, Alex Van Halen and Dave Lombardo. Now look at you. You really need the public to approve of you in a way that really cries out for therapy. Vince Neil was right about you. If you had tits, you'd be a Spice Girl. I'm going to go and listen to Dr. Feelgood, Nothing's Shocking and And Justice For All several times. Then cry. And probably drink my weight in beer. And not turn on my tv for several weeks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vandrak Posted July 24, 2006 Share Posted July 24, 2006 The title says it all, reality shows are horrible. I don't care about watching people at their house or any of the thing else that is shown in some of the shows. We should all stop watching TV until those awful things are taken off the air Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Posted July 24, 2006 Share Posted July 24, 2006 I have never watched a reality show and I never plan to. They are such garbage, it would be a complete waste of my time. It's not even reality, all that stuff it fake, it's all planned beforehand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Doctor Posted July 24, 2006 Share Posted July 24, 2006 Reality TV does suck. I never even tried to watch it. It's never appealed to me, and I don't see how it can appeal to anyone with an ounce of self respect or any sense of good TV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Det. Bart Lasiter Posted July 24, 2006 Share Posted July 24, 2006 Reality TV is for the trendy people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mimartin Posted July 24, 2006 Share Posted July 24, 2006 I completely agree Reality TV sucks. I did watch “Survivor” All Stars to see what the big deal was after hearing some friends talk about how great “Survivor” was. It didn’t kill me, but it wasn’t very entertaining either. They are very cheap to produce and many people love them so we are going to be stuck with them for a while. Sooner or later people will get their fill and this fad will die out (hopefully!). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jae Onasi Posted July 24, 2006 Share Posted July 24, 2006 I don't know, I think "Dog, The Bounty Hunter" is a lot of fun to watch. Mace, welcome to Middle Age. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stingerhs Posted July 24, 2006 Share Posted July 24, 2006 bah, its all just a bunch of whiny/argumentative people trying to get their 15min of fame. the only reality-based show that i like is 'Mythbusters' and 'The Apprentice'. Mythbusters just freakin' rocks, and The Apprentice appeals to me because the concept of modern business is very intriguing to me. otherwise, all this singing, surviving, modeling, and other nonsense just gets on my last nerve. i just wish TV would get back to doing the good stuff. i want more shows like CSI and Lost a heck of a lot more than crap like 'American Idol' or 'Survivor'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samnmax221 Posted July 24, 2006 Share Posted July 24, 2006 bah, its all just a bunch of whiny/argumentative people trying to get their 15min of fame. You forgot "downright sucking at life" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Det. Bart Lasiter Posted July 24, 2006 Share Posted July 24, 2006 You forgot "downright sucking at life"You wouldn't leave everything behind, make a fool of yourself on national TV, and suffer on a remote island for a month for a chance at maybe getting $1,000,000 (before taxes)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milo Posted July 24, 2006 Share Posted July 24, 2006 I, for one, would eat bugs on a stupid gameshow for a chance at $50,000. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samnmax221 Posted July 24, 2006 Share Posted July 24, 2006 You wouldn't leave everything behind, make a fool of yourself on national TV, and suffer on a remote island for a month for a chance at maybe getting $1,000,000 (before taxes)? Not while this country still has an unfair income tax. Edit: I have eaten bugs(In an entirely sober attempt to get attention), I will however never eat a grasshopper again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Det. Bart Lasiter Posted July 24, 2006 Share Posted July 24, 2006 I, for one, would eat bugs on a stupid gameshow for a chance at $50,000.Whore. You are no longer part of my posse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samnmax221 Posted July 24, 2006 Share Posted July 24, 2006 Chef whats a prostitute? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jae Onasi Posted July 24, 2006 Share Posted July 24, 2006 {snip} erased part quoting a deleted post. - d3 and back on topic--I've made an idiot out of myself in real life more than once--why not get paid to act like I'm making an idiot out of myself for a reality show, since it's all pretty contrived anyway? I draw the line at any insects, however, unless they're chocolate covered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RC-1162 Posted July 24, 2006 Share Posted July 24, 2006 bah, its all just a bunch of whiny/argumentative people trying to get their 15min of fame. the only reality-based show that i like is 'Mythbusters' and 'The Apprentice'. Mythbusters just freakin' rocks, quoted for emphasis! i never wasted my time watching any of the stupid reality shows. one of my friends watched Reality TV once and told me about something sickening. it lost me forever just then Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jae Onasi Posted July 24, 2006 Share Posted July 24, 2006 My thinking was more along the lines of "Jesus saves". I'll smooth down my hackles now that I understand where you were going with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emperor Devon Posted July 24, 2006 Share Posted July 24, 2006 Bleah! TV is a complete waste of your life. I don't watch these 'reality shows', (I'm not even fully sure what they are) or TV in general, and I don't plan to. Why people would want to watch a show about someone else's life is beyond me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St. Jimmy Posted July 24, 2006 Share Posted July 24, 2006 bah, its all just a bunch of whiny/argumentative people trying to get their 15min of fame. the only reality-based show that i like is 'Mythbusters' and 'The Apprentice'. Mythbusters just freakin' rocks, and The Apprentice appeals to me because the concept of modern business is very intriguing to me. otherwise, all this singing, surviving, modeling, and other nonsense just gets on my last nerve. i just wish TV would get back to doing the good stuff. i want more shows like CSI and Lost a heck of a lot more than crap like 'American Idol' or 'Survivor'. Is mythbusters really a reality show? It is good though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mace MacLeod Posted July 24, 2006 Author Share Posted July 24, 2006 "Dog the Bounty Hunter". OMFG. I hate that show with a burning passion. It's like watching a bunch of refugees from a traveling Mexican wrestling troupe. How these jackasses manage to catch anyone is utterly beyond me. They're the least subtle people on the planet. They may as well have a flashing neon sign on their truck saying BOUNTY HUNTER. "Mythbusters". Now, I for one wouldn't include this show in the umbrella category of Reality TV. Okay, it's unscripted (presumably) so technically it qualifies, but even at its most vacuous, it's still light-years better than most. Special effects guys blowing stuff up for laughs beats the hell out of watching washed-up rockers trying desperately to hang onto their fifteen minutes of fame. What really gets me about this idiotic "Rockstar" show is that I actually used to admire these guys as musicians. Jane's Addiction's first full length release Nothing's Shocking (Alternative before Alternative meant anything and then meant nothing) was one of my practice tapes when I was first really learning to play bass. Every song on it was its own unique-sounding creation, and the band sounded like nothing and no one else. Dave Navarro's guitar playing was a big part of why that was. Motley Crue and Metallica were staples of my music diet for decades, and even after I finally got a computer with a CD burner, the first CD I made has "Kickstart my Heart" right after "For Whom the Bell Tolls". Okay, that last song was off "Ride the Lightning" which was recorded before Jason Newstead joined Metallica, but still. He did Cliff Burton's classic distortion-and-wah intro to the song in concert. I did see him do it. Now look at these guys. On a reality show that's a ripoff of another reality show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jae Onasi Posted July 24, 2006 Share Posted July 24, 2006 "Dog the Bounty Hunter". OMFG. I hate that show with a burning passion. It's like watching a bunch of refugees from a traveling Mexican wrestling troupe. How these jack---- manage to catch anyone is utterly beyond me. They're the least subtle people on the planet. They may as well have a flashing neon sign on their truck saying BOUNTY HUNTER. 2 words: Stupid Criminals. There's tons of SUVs running around with tinted windows in Hawaii. They look like anyone else, until they open the window. The guy's caught something like 6,000 people--can't argue with that success. I love it when cops and law enforcement catch the bad guys. I particularly love it when they catch the bad guys because they're doing something terminally idiotic (because I have a rather sick sense of humor at times), which is what got me started on that show in the first place. Otherwise, I wouldn't have bothered. What keeps me watching is the quirky juxtaposition of a born-again Christian who's an ex-con who prays with his team before going out and using every profanity there is when they catch the guy, and then turning around and talking to his bounty about how to straighten his life out while driving him to jail. Beth wears high heels and puts on makeup before going out on a bounty in some seedy part of the city. Leland is this skinny little thing who's all muscle because he's a professional boxer and does kickboxing/extreme fighting. It's just putting together these kinds of things that you'd never expect would go together that keeps me intrigued. That and how stupid the criminal is this week. Kind of reminds me of Hannibal on the A-Team saying "I love it when a plan comes together" at the end of the show after just dealing with mass insanity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woogiee Posted July 24, 2006 Share Posted July 24, 2006 haha I love Dog The Bounty Hunter, its such a rediculous show lol. The only other times I like reality shows is when people's hopes and dreams get crushed (ie America Idol tryouts) or when someone gets their *** beat (ie realworld a couple seasons ago one of the guys got the bone around his eye broken in a drunken scuffle in the first episode). So yea, I guess you could say I have a sick sense of humor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
REDJOHNNYMIKE Posted July 26, 2006 Share Posted July 26, 2006 Did no one figure this out the first time they saw a reality show:lol: And to think they fried so many brains that Firefly was canceled. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Char Ell Posted July 26, 2006 Share Posted July 26, 2006 I, for one, would eat bugs on a stupid gameshow for a chance at $50,000.So does Fear Factor qualify as a reality TV show? I watch the show on occasion and consider it more of a game show than a reality TV show. I guess the line between reality TV and game shows is hard to discern. Meh. Whatever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jae Onasi Posted July 26, 2006 Share Posted July 26, 2006 Reality TV does suck. I never even tried to watch it. It's never appealed to me, and I don't see how it can appeal to anyone with an ounce of self respect or any sense of good TV. Has nothing to do with good taste or self respect. It has everything to do with wanting to watch the occasional mindless entertainment. I have to be 'on my game' all day at work, and so I like to watch something that requires no thought whatsoever from time to time. I need a break from Schindler's List and Hamlet now and then. And after having my wallet and PDA stolen, I get vicarious pleasure out of seeing criminals getting caught. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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