I hate 90% of what is on TV. Maybe I don’t hate it, but I don’t want to be bothered with it. I don’t watch anything current really. I’ve never seen one episode of Lost, House and I’m sure there are a lot more that I can’t think of. The only show I’ve actually followed in the past decade was Doctor Who. Meaning, the only show with an actual plot-line.
Now, I’ve followed documentaries-a-plenty. I can’t speak for everyone but I’d venture to say not as many people eagerly await the revamped version of Carl Sagan’s Cosmos.
Right now there are a handful of shows I like. Deadliest Catch is one of them. It’s fascinating to watch these guys do what they do. The latest show I started watching, last night, was Pitchmen. Call me a lunatic but I find that industry rather interesting. If you haven’t heard about it, it’s got Billy Mays (yes, the Oxyclean guy) and Anthony Sullivan in it. They take a couple of products, pitch them and see what sticks. I suppose it’s my creative/inventive mind that sort of evaluates the products and so forth. So I find interest and entertainment value there. Plus it’s nice to see Billy Mays actually talk and not yell.
And that takes me to my shows of preference. I like watching how things are made. I like watching things explode. Real explosions, not Hollywood ones. I like watching tornadoes, again, the real ones. I like watching nearly anything on science. I draw the line at biology, never really liked biology! I like watching Time Warp, the show that slows things down to insane slow motion. I like watching rockets, again with the explosions, but controlled explosions. Mythbusters is a great show. How it’s made is a great show. Dirty Jobs is a great show. I suppose it’s “real” reality TV that I like. I don’t really like the pretentiousness of most reality TV. Pitchmen is semi-reality I guess but it’s tolerable.
I don’t care who gets voted off an island. I don’t care who can sing, honestly. I suppose it’s because those things don’t really directly affect me? Am I a non-tv elitist? I guess so! Nah, a non-everyone else watches it-tv elitist!
I’ve always been that way. I didn’t like Weezer until about five years AFTER their blue album. I don’t like bandwagons I guess. I don’t like fads much either. I stopped liking fads after the whole color changing shirts craze of the 80s.
I prefer timeless things, with a few exceptions of course. This is just a semi rant because I get tired of being asked if I watched this or that. Half of the news online seems to be which Idol got bumped off or who left what show. The other half is depressing as all hell. Doesn’t leave much for good stuff, to me. So I make my own!
But wait, there’s more!
Actually, not really. That’s it my rant on TV is done. Now, my next rant: Facebook and other online perils. 😮