| Repetative Television |
I think it's about time for America to catch on to what's going on with T.V shows. Every show on television is the same. and we are due for a change, a fresh idea that will spark our attention and change how we watch T.V. forever... or at least the next ten years or so.
Anyone who knows me, knows that I am one of the most random people anyone will every meet. Thus said, over the Thanksgiving holiday, I got bored and started watching that one channel that shows all the old shows like Flipper and The Andy Griffith Show, and I started making connections between the shows that I watched.
I started with Lassie. Lassie had three basic characters: Lassie, World's smartest dog, Timmy, World's dumbest boy-child, and June Lockhart, Timmy's mom and the only woman in the world who could speak fluent collie.
Every episode had the same plot. Timmy would find himself fifty miles away from home, duct taped to Geoffrey Dauhmer's lunchbox. Lassie would sit and watch the whole thing happen and then run as fast as he could to Timmy's house where he would open the front door, that swung outward, and into Timmy's kitchen where June was always cooking something. Lassie would start barking and June would be like "What's that Lassie? Timmy duct taped himself to Geoffrey Dauhmer's lunchbox? We'd better go save him." Then Lassie would start barking again and she'd say something like, "Oh, that's right Lassie. We'd better make sure we turn off the oven and the iron before we leave." Then they'd go save Timmy and everything would be good, and every show was the same!
Well, eventually America caught on to that and Lassie was cancelled, but not before they gave viewers a whole new show, Flipper.
Flipper was a swimming Lassie. The same exact plot was in every show. Someone would be in trouble and Flipper would save the day. Eventually, America caught on to that, and Flipper was cancelled as the introduced yet another new show, but this one had an interesting twist.
The show was called Gentle Ben, the story of a young boy named Mark... and his pet... grizzly bear.
No, people! We do not need to be teaching children that grizzly bears are friendly! The show should have been called "Highly Medicated Ben". *frustrated sigh*
Anyway...
Television then is not too different from television now. The same types of shows are being played over and over and over, but apparently, America hasn't caught on yet.
For example, CSI.
CSI started out as a great show but it was just Law and Order with a slight twist. The transition from Law and Order to CSI was much like the transition from Lassie to Flipper. However, with both of the mentioned shows playing now, television producers did something that no one has done before. They took the show and split it up into subcategories. Now, all of the sudden, it's not just Law and Order, It's Law and Order:SVU and Law and Order: Criminal Intent. CSI did the same thing. There is no longer just CSI, now it's CSI: New York, CSI: Miami, I think they had CSI:Hawaii for a little while, but that one crashed and burned.
Although CSI, was just a cheesy rip-off, it introduced something new to television: Forensic Science. Before CSI, the only channel you could find a forensic science show on was Court TV. So, armed with a new idea to television, the producers from all different channels created tons of forensic science shows like BONES on FOX (which is fantastic, by the way) and Criminal Minds on whatever station it's on.
It's not just crime/foresic shows that have done this. It's also hospital/doctor shows, all of which spouted from ER, like House, Nip/Tuck, and this new one called 3 lbs. which, I don't think has even started yet.
The only show I've seen in a while that is truly unique, as far as I know, is Heroes on NBC. That show is amazing.
In short, television needs fresh and new ideas because they are few and far between, and then when they do show up, they are ruined by spin-off after spin-off with the occasional rip-off.
Stop making repeats! Life and entertainment are about new and creative ideas! Stop cramming the same shows down our throats! Fight the plague! |
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| On Strike Against American Idol |
American Idol is sucks. Listen to this.
My brother and his fiancee have some freinds in Germany. Keith is 21 and Jenny is in her 20's not sure what age. Anyways keith is in the army and is based in munich. Jenny has recently become pregnant and there married so everythings great right?
No. Jenny has a condition in which if she is cut she bleeds insanely. The doctors told her not to become pregnant any time soon because it would be hazardous. Well she did. Being southern christian that she is, abortion is out of the question.
Well german doctors discovered jennys baby has down syndrome and has to be flown back to the united states to be born because she needs special doctors.
Heres my point.
Keith requested leave from the army to go have HIS CHILD!!!!! They said no. They asked if the army could fly jenny over to the U.S. No.
Luckily jennys father has some bank and can afford it and she is there now. Keith cannot leave germany till summer time way after the baby is born. So he will not be there for his sick wife, sick child, OR THE FACT HIS OWN CHILD WILL BE BORN WHILE HE FUELS F-18'S FOR PILOTS IN A NUETRAL COUNTRY!!!!
Now, explain to me how JOSH GRACIEN, AMERICAN IDOL contestant is allowed to fly back no questions asked for a t.v. show pre-pubecent teens watch? IF THATS NOT THE MOST SCREWED UP THING YOU'VE EVER HEARD NOTHING EVER WILL BE.
American Idol is a disgrace. Disgrace to music, musicians, peoples rights, talent, ones own ambition, and now the US Military. How can 3 people who have had the least amount popularity in their lifetime judge individuals? Simon was a rep who was fired. We all know Paula Abdul's story and Tito Jackson had a longer stint than she did, she just has looks to help her out. Randy Jackson, bassist for Mariah Carey. Mariah Carey, enough said. The singer thing is out. The "pop" thing is definately out.
Why is this disgusting thing still allowed to go on. It does no one any good whatsoever including the singers. The only winner to have a successful career sort of was Kelly Clarkson, who was on the tale end of the spears-aguilera regime'. Ruben Studdard? Sorry for 2004? Terrible. "Clay Aiken"? more popular than ruben and was runner up and now is invincible, errr, invisible. The only really good winner was Carrie Underwood, last year's winner.
Whats also messed up is how they boot off people who have had problems in the past. Well someone needs to fill IT in to the producers "THE PAST IS REAL"! Those performers who we're booted are the real lifestyle of the music world. You have no $$$$. You have to work yourself tothe bone and pay dues to get noticed. Its not as easy as American Idol.
All in all American Idol in my opinion is hurting us more than helping. It has lauched the careers for people who made their money and disappeared making everyone who supported them by giving them that money and them not ever having the common courtesy to give a reach around.
Take the wool out your eyes, you might be surprised, by what you see and what you realize, the answer is there, just buried in pollution, dig a lil' bit deeper become a part of the solution- Chris Poland
GOD BLESS YOU JENNY AND KEITH. |
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| World Domination! |
What would life truly be like if children under the age of 18 and over the age of 3 were able to have a say in the government decisions or even have total control? Some might say total chaos.
Listen to this.
Last week I asked a child about the age of 6 how he felt about the war. "I think it's stupid. Why do people always want to hurt other people? Why can't the grown-ups get along?"
Why can't grown-ups get along? From the eyes of a 6 year old the world has become one big game of Risk. Adults are the ones fighting and it is the children who are suffering.
Well what about all the mothers and wives who have had thier sons or husbands sent to Iraq? Adults are better able to cope with such things than children are. Children who have to grow up without fathers and mothers or having to hear from thier parents that they are never going to see certain memebers of their families again. War. That is how adults settle problems.
8 out of 10 children can blame the fact that they have demented thoughts in thier minds on the war. "No, they can't." Listen. If they can blame their violant behaviors on Eminem and video games, why not the war. They have been taught from a young age that violence doesn't sovle anything but in any history class we are taught how people have bettered the world through war. Many children might think that the wars over boundaries and empires is over but had to face the grim reality that war never stops when the Twin Towers were raized by the Al Queda. We got angry and declared war and now we have a big grown-up fight that children think is nothing but stupidity.
Children realise more than adults think. Adults don't hear the conversations that happen at school lunch tables or in backyards when children have a chance to be away from adults and talk about what they think and their ideas so that they can be heard out, taken seriously, and speak freely in the knowledge that they can't be told they are wrong. Adults mostly never take children or even teenagers for that matter seriously. If they don't take us seriously, why should we take this war seriously. Adults say that we can't see the war through their eyes, that they know things and reasons deeper than any child can see. We see the war for what it really is: STUPIDITY PERSONIFIED!!!
So, why should children be able to run things? When we have a problem, first we may have some hostility against one another, we might throw a few punches, but in the end we can usually talk it out....or we might resort to rock, paper, scissors to discover who is right or who gets the land or whatever it is we are fighting for. And i assure you that if a teenager or even a child had a potential member of the Al Queda in our hands we would not let him go before we have identified them, whereas adults, already having been tested in this situation, LET HIM GO!!!
WHY? WHY? WHY???
It's like tag or hide and seek. A child knows that when you have someone who is not on your team or with your group that you hold onto that person for all you are worth or you will be stuck being "it" again.
So, in conclusion, all the adults need to hand the earth over to children or prepare for a revolution. Using the internet we will reach children and teens all over the globe and persuade them into helping us overthrow the adults and end all war once and for all.... unless it's the card game that is. |
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| O, Canada! |
| CANADA is going to take over the world! Dont be tricked by their quote/unquote low status, they are developing a military base. It's the perfect plot. Nobody lives up there. There is very little human activity...Or is that what they want us to think!!! Dont let 'em fool you! They are living underground and making a giant military base to one day use as the go all dictator over the world!!! They have started sending their spies and their Government food such as cheetos, dr. pepper, mayonaise, and mustard. You were warned!!! |
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| An Ode to Emo Poetry |
Emo poetry...
It is written in lockers, on desks, and on bathroom stalls,
It bears the souls of the emos who walk through our halls.
Whether you're in class or just going to pee,
It is written or carved there for all to see.
It talks about anything from love to broken hearts,
From death to waiting for life to start.
From revenge to darkness and even to pain,
They write their hearts out before going insane.
Although all poems may seem the same,
The differance lies with the anonymous name.
All emos are special, though it's hard to believe,
Because they all look alike from their shoe to their sleeve.
Though it may not rhyme or make any sense,
Whether it's written in past or present tense,
Poetry to anyone is meaningful and inspiring,
And rhyming itself can be very tirng.
Life for an emo is difficult enough,
They're not indivduals, funny, or tough.
They have to find a place to let go of it all,
Even if that place is a bathroom stall. |
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