The Aerie
I was interested to see some of the new fall shows, one of which was "Prison Break." The story (from the previews) seemed to be about a man who deliberately committed felony bank robbery and got caught, in order to break his brother out of jail.
I missed the premiere, but tuned in to the second episode by accident and caught the summary from the first week. It ended with a scary scene: a bunch of guys in a shed were holding down a fellow in a shed, and threatening to cut off one of his toes with garden shears.
"Ugh," I thought, "I'm glad I didn't see that..."
Then after a brief announcement the show began.
Men. Shed. Shears.
>SNIP!<
Blood. Pain.
>Click<
So much for that show!
I don't know, what were they thinking? Do people really want to watch torture? Maiming? Blood?
Criminy, bring back the Roman Colisseum...
Then tonight I've got The Biggest Loser playing while I'm working. Now, okay, I don't know why I'm watching this show in the first place, but then it comes to the weigh off.
Now, when the women weigh off, fine - they take off their shoes, climb on the scale, no problem.
Then the guys go up there. They take of their shoes... and then take off their shirts!
Now, first of all that's just wrong for a lot of reasons. If the girls have to wear tops, the guys should have to wear tops, just from the point of view of fairness.
But more to the point, well... these guys should NOT be taking off their shirts, except in the absolute darkness of a small, sealed room buried underneath Kitt Peak. Some of these men weigh 400 lbs and not one of them has ever waxed in his life.
>Click<
So I'll fire up my audio player and turn off the TV and that will be just fine with me. I guess there are people in the world who are supposed to be encouraging viewers to watch television. None of them seemed to be at work on these programs...
Posted by Albatross at September 13, 2005 8:23 PM | TrackBack