I have come to realize...

[El Kabong]

Reality TV is our society's version of the Roman Gladiator matches and Christians being fed to lions etc.


In the olden days people used to go to the Colosseum to see torture and humiliation. Today people just watch tv hoping to see a horrible American Idol get berated infront of millions of viewers or some Real World room mates fight over who does the dishes... these people are not physically hurt the majority of the time but emotionally and psychologically destroyed or they thrive off of such drama and this sickens me even more, to the point where I long for the days of painful deaths and torture for all of those involved.


Your thoughts....

[Fenster]

Have i got this wrong?

I think you said - Roman humiliation/torture is comparable to game shows today that emotionally and psychologically destroy people, but you wish for a time when these people suffer painful deaths and torture?

You want the emotionally and psychologically abused physically toutured?

[Andre]

I think he wants the emotional abusers to be horse whipped and fed to the Lions.

For his own enjoyment of course .which could make him an abuser of sorts.


So far we have the abused,the abusers and the viewers.

Who owns the lions?

If the abusers now own the lions then they them selves will be feed to them eventually so its a nasty little circle, a catch 22 food chain.

Eventually as the abused become the abusers there will only be lions left and confused viewers who will have a big decision to make.


Ummm thats a NO from me Lyle , .

[Youngblood]

haha Oh man I love American Idol for the first 2 weeks. Deep seeded delusion ftw!

Spose I'm going to hell...

[El Kabong]

I dislike the entire idea of "reality tv" they are hybrid of 3 things which aren't that great to begin with #1 Reality, tv was invented to get us away from reality without the use of drugs/alcohol...reality tv should really be the NEWS (in the best case) #2 Game Shows...I suppose with the exception that you need talent to win on some game shows #3 Gossip and inane blabber about worthless people ie Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, etc.


All I am saying is if this is what they plan on feeding the masses then bring back the lions! Is nobody with me

[CGM]

I suppose a lot of what constitutes reality tv is based on the premise that famous people are inherently more interesting in their day to day lives than "ordinary people". This is a fallacy. Most often you get famous movie stars away from the camera, or rock stars off the stage or out of the studio, and they're just as boring as we are.

Paris Hilton is a bit of an anomoly, a member of that new breed who are famous solely because of their famousness. No talent whatsoever. You wonder how they ever got famous. And their lives become inseparable from the concept of reality tv, because with it they'd be nothing.

Sometimes reality tv is rather funny. I thought the Osbournes was a hoot. Hulk Hogan and Gene Simmons reality tv are boring as hell.

Yeah a lot of reality tv exists because "we" like to see stars take a fall, e.g. Britney Spears.

American Idol is pure shit, it's a glorified Karaoke/Gong show.

So yeah Lyle, I'm pretty much with you, but I don't seem to get as worked up about it.

[Wayne]

I dislike the entire idea of "reality tv" they are hybrid of 3 things which aren't that great to begin with #1 Reality, tv was invented to get us away from reality without the use of drugs/alcohol...reality tv should really be the NEWS (in the best case) #2 Game Shows...I suppose with the exception that you need talent to win on some game shows #3 Gossip and inane blabber about worthless people ie Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, etc.


All I am saying is if this is what they plan on feeding the masses then bring back the lions! Is nobody with me

I'll admit I like SOME reality TV, but it really depends on how it is produced. I don't like anything on MTV they pass off as reality. Primarily because it's not geared to my age group. But also because it in no way shape or form resembles reality. Cops is reality (except for when the cop decides to get extra flexy when he brings down a baddy), Taxicab Confessions is reality, Intervention is hella reality. The only show I can really think of that is more like MTV is Scream Queens and it's for a very specific reason: it's more of a gameshow than reality. They are competing for a definite, real prize; a starring role in a hit movie franchise (Saw series). It's not trying to improve a group of crazy women (Charm School) or picking off fatties one by one (The Biggest Loser). Sure 'Loser' has a prize at the end, but the purpose of the show is to help these people lose weight. Why are they being eliminated then? Shouldn't they all stay on the show and the person who loses the most at the end win? If the 'Charm' girls need this help, why boot them? Because it's about something other than this alleged improvement they state. At least with 'Queens' we have a defined task and only one can win. It makes sense that they be elminated one by one. Who the hell cares who wants to be Paris Hilton's next best friend who she'll be dumping on sometime in the coming year? And the dating shows are the worst. My parents hate my girlfriend so much they set me up to go on a date with two other girls. No, in REALITY, my parents wouldn't allow my girlfriend in the house if she were an uber-bitch. And don't stick my whiny ass in a house with a bunch of whiny 20 somethings. I used to love 'Real World', hell, I wanted to be on the show, but now I would be terminally bored.

[Spicoli]

Its all theatrics and one big Television Audition for the contestants.....hoping on future TV & book deals....or to go onto another 'reality' show.