Why does anyone care about any reality show?
358509
I think people, sadly, enjoy watching other people suffer and are glad it isn't them...
1179585
The same thing that happens to all "reality" shows...it gets canceled because it sucks and is unoriginal!
1110737
Reality tv isn't necesarily scripted, but it's at least manipulated and the people involved are coached and directed to an extent to achieve the desired affects. Everyone wants their fifteen minutes and some are more desperate for it than others. Frankly, I'm ready for the comeback of the good-old sitcom. Farewell crime dramas and reality tv, we want the funny guys!
679089
i dont know i dont think that there is a reality to the show cause to me its really good but whats do point a bunch of teenagers gettin ready to live there life in the real world that happens everyday in our everyday life. so what i guess im tryin to say is that there is really no point to the show
114149
Watching crappy reality shows on networks that i loathe like mtv and vh1.\nI don't watch them often, but every now and then i'll catch myself doing it. Of course, i am quick to criticize anyone else watching such trash.
350719
Hi there.. I'm not sure what your actual question is.  Are you claiming that your generation is not as self-absorbed and selfish as some people accuse?  Or are you saying that today's TV shows portray a generation that is not self-absorbed or selfish?  Who are "we moderns"?  I'm interested in discussing these issues with you, but I need to understand who you speak for.  Certainly not everyone in the world who is your age cheers for the winners on American Idol.  Some of them can't stand the show, much less the winners (i know some young people like this.)\n\nI think a large part of the joy in watching people find success and happiness on TV is that it allows the viewer (i.e. you or me) to experience that pleasure, to live sort of vicariously through the characters we're seeing, and in whom we've invested quite a lot of emotion and interest.   I would say to you that I think it's indicative of a good person to enjoy seeing people find success and happiness, or seeing people solve their problems and work things out.  I believe that's a good thing. \n\nBut there are some inherent problems with buying too much into the stories on TV.  For one, TV shows, reality or not, are nevertheless edited to smithereens; they rarely if ever show the true ebb and flow of a situation, the nature of how real time passes.  It's VERY easy to get used to that and lose your perspective on how long some things take and how much patience and tenacity is required.  Another problem:  there are some people who are so rapt in attention with TV shows, and already experiencing vicariously the pleasures of successes that they're seeing, that they have simply stopped investing enough time in their own happiness.   When you relate to much of life through a perspective of TV shows, you lose sense of how things really are.  Everything is very grand and overly dramatic and heavily edited on TV.  When one then has to deal with regular life, and it appears to them (relative to TV) mundane, slow, and undramatic, they may become discouraged and lose a lot of drive or ambition to pursue their interests.  \n\nThere are other problems.  I refer you to a great essay by David Foster Wallace entitled "E Unibus Pluram:  Television and U.S. Fiction".  \n\nBut to better answer your question, I need to know more specifics.  Who are you "moderns"?  Who is accusing you of being self-absorbed and selfish, and if someone is, why should you care?  Do you feel like a self-absorbed or selfish person?  If not, then who cares what other people say?  If they're judging you without knowing you, that's pretty presumptuous.  Screw 'em.  Live your life, be happy, be yourself.  Write me back if you'd like.
938493
Wow...ummm, how does this affect my life?  There are so many other things I could do with my time than worry about what a bunch of egotistical, attention craving "celebrities" say or do to one another.  Who cares?
306861
Reality television came alone when everybody was tired of watching the same type of shows on TV.  People liked it because it was different.  Just like everything else it has been over done.
720545
how about every reality show
631702
yes i am\nthe only one i have ever been able to watch is project runway, and even that at times annoyed me beyond belief.\nif reality shows were really about reality we wouldn't watch them because no one wants to watch what they are doing in their real life. tv is about escaping your own life and being entertained by another story or life.
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I completely agree. My think is that not only are they annoying, but people in the age groups that watch it (up and coming teenagers most I guess) stay pretty much ignorant and stereotypical because of them. The OC or Laguna Beach show all these girls still fighting over a dirtbag guy. They still show how to get yourself involved in drama in the stupidest way possible and totally waste your time instead of thinking about higher things. Shows like American Idol just become so formulated that people don't actually try to have original opinions, they try to act like they know how to sing or dance or market a person themselves when really they suck at karaoke. Every teen movie has some kind of nudity or sexual implication involved with it (even that "High School Musical" on Disney pissed me off, although not a reality show, because this kid was pimpin' two girls on an airplane and started making out with them both!) - I'm not an ultra-conservative or anything, but when you see the same things over and over again, it makes you wonder why your boyfriend or why guys think it's okay to cheat, or why they don't feel bad about it, or why girls have to be so damn gossipy and have such low thinking levels. Sometimes I wish I could see a show where someone doesn't give a crap about entertaining someone else or causing drama and actually gets to the top of something. Where someone actually gets degraded if they're a character who pimps everyone or shows off every inch of their body. Like I said, I can have as sense of humor but it pisses me off when it's so prominent that it actually becomes true.
1010956
I agree.  The people that they do this to are just like everyone else except they are just famous.  How would they like it if it was done to them?  Hey there is a good reality show how bout we stalk and write bad stuff about the people who do the tabloids and the paparazzi
90327
ofcourse they should show real people. its called reality show right?
674463
I'm burnt out on all reality shows.  Especially celebrities trying to earn even more money just by living their lives and play acting a role that they think makes them cool.
532814
I'm sick of people scheduling their lives around it...! I watch the show--but I don't get DEVASTATED like some people on these forums, do! It's a REALITY SHOW, and sometimes people forget that and just need to live their own lives instead of watching others live theirs!
76032
TV Shows like the OC are not educational or promoting anything. \n\nThey are purely for entertainment purposes.
353818
who really cares...???