Wednesday, September 19, 2007

And with two sentences

I am now more in love with Jen Johnson than I am with James Rhine. Hard to believe considering my love for James.




"I obviously don't respect either of you as people in the real world, but at this point I have no choice but to vote for one of you."

"Well, I was wondering who was that childish when it happened...but now I see it was America."




Because of James, I watched this year. I always found this show to be kind of blah and couldn't get into a season until season 6 (and I love James so I have to assume it was because of him). Then I watched season 7 because he was on again. I stopped watching it when he was evicted and I didn't miss it.



But I started watching it this year. I think I was intrigued by the Big Brother After Dark aspect and getting some of that house vibe without reading ceaseless ramblings from board posters to get one tidbit of information. Then I was getting kind of angry that I got sucked into it this year with all the threats of death by sodomy and the whining and the spitting and the calling a bikini model fat and how frushhhhhhstraating everything was...
but because of Jen I feel like the Donato family season wasn't a total waste of time.

And with that, I have gained three additional television-free hours per week. (We're not counting the 21!!!! hours of BBAD because I gave that up last Thursday when bunny Zach was sent to the jury house.)

Friday, September 14, 2007

Scripted Reality

If you know a "reality" show is fixed from the beginning, do you continue to watch it? I know I do. I watch it hoping I was wrong. I watch it hoping for some dramatic ending. I watch it because I just know that CBS can't be that obvious about fixing a game. They can tell me as many times as they want that it wasn't fixed but I will never believe them. This article mentions exactly when one of the competitors lost the competition... at least twice. It also mentions the total coldness of his loving daughter. What a heartless cunt (if there is ever a person this word needs to be used to describe, it's this person). Here are a few examples:

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12:25 - I am absolutely convinced that I saw Dick let go of the key. From the look on Daniele's face she saw it too but Big Brother doesn't call it and the competition continues.

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1:56 - I see it again! Dick clearly let go of the key. There was a close up of it on feed one. Again Big Brother does nothing about it. It doesn't get any more obvious than that.

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2:00 - Daniele goes over to her Dad to encourage him and tells him "You're doing so good, I could never have done this!" Dick tells her "I'm done." She says "Don't give up, you're doing so good." Dick starts to cry. Then Daniele starts to cry. She turns and walks away. She knows it's over. She walks into the house, doesn't want to be there anymore. She watches her Dad through the window.

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She tells her Dad that the hoses that were wetting them down were not turned on to the same force of water. She says "mine was like a two, a drip. Zach's was like a six, it really blasted him." She tells Dick the hose guy kept grinning at her. Of course the feeds cut. Can't have more of Big Brother's influence being shown to the live feed viewers.


If anybody could make me feel badly for this obscene excuse for a human being, it's his daughter. He kept looking at her, pleading for her to tell him it was okay to step down and she wouldn't.

His hours-long verbal abuse, requested once again by his darling daughter, directed this time at Zach, were humiliating. Calling him "panty muncher", making fun of his teeth (because his father is a dentist), making obscene comments about his ex-girlfriend, implying he's a racist... But I'm not sure who he humiliated the worst, himself, Zach or Zach's family and friends... or the viewers. I kept wanting to fast forward through my three-hour recording of Big Brother After Dark, most of which was him taunting Zach with spit dripping down his chin and Zach just standing there, but I couldn't. I felt terribly that nobody was there for Zach. Nobody was there to tell Dick how disgusting he is. So I watched it. I watched it somehow feeling like I was supporting Zach.

I said a few posts back that I almost want to start rooting for the Donatos. How stupid were the other houseguests to not get rid of them when they could? Zach not using that veto was almost the last straw. Then they opened their mouths and I was reminded why it is impossible, as a compassionate human being, to root for them.

I so want the jurors, the poor evictees who have to choose between the two most disgusting people to ever appear on "reality" television, to tell them how horrible they are. I want the Donatos to walk out of there knowing that they will never gain respect from any of those people. I want one of them to tell them how I feel about them. Please, Dustin, Jen, Zach, please salvage something from the weeks I spent watching in horror as you all let these people slip through.

I fear though that the only satisfaction I can get out of this season of Big Brother is just knowing that money will not make their lives better and the hope that it causes a greater divide in their relationship.

I hope Nick watched more of the live feeds and realizes what a wretched, hateful, despicable, cold-hearted bitch he poured himself all over and he runs away as fast as he can.

I want to tell you that I will never watch this show again but it brought me James Rhine so it can't be all bad all the time. I just fear that next year we'll have fourteen people going, "Are you America's Player?"..."I bet he's America's Player." and a bunch of Evel "You think you're a rebel?" Dick wannabes pouring tea on people's heads and threatening death by ass rape.

For the heck of it, my list in order of likability:
Jen *floaty hearts*
Jameka
Zach
Mike (based on the probability that he would have likely stood up to Dick)
Dustin
Kail
Joe (?)
Carol (?)
Jessica
Amber
Nick (though he'll jump up to the top if he dumps Daniele on live television)
Dick
Eric
Daniele

Monday, September 10, 2007

It is driving me insane

That this:

is showing up as a red x up there.

Friday, September 07, 2007

I don't usually watch music videos but:

Milo.

And also? I'd like to watch this:



And in Big Brother news, Zach Zach Zach. Oh Zach. He had the PERFECT opportunity to get rid of Daniele. Evel "You think you're a rebel?" Dick won HOH and nominated Eric and Jameka. Zach won POV. He didn't use it. Hello? Take Jameka/Eric off. Dick HAS to put up Daniele. Zach and Jameka/Eric vote her out. ugh. *rolls eyes* But I was not sad to see Eric or Jess go. Though I would have liked to see how he would play his own game. So yeah. As much as I don't think Dick deserves to win, I think all the rest of them deserve him to win. ugh. Though from the little bit of BBAD I watched, I saw that Zach did win HoH again and Daniele was whining so I'll have to read up on the happenings. Maybe he got smarter?

Wednesday, September 05, 2007

I'm getting prepared for the fall television season.

I am so ready for this to come back on my television... October 5th:




For the love of Peter Petrelli, I am ready for this... September 24th:

oh Milo... it was the future disfiguration that did it.

and I'm ready for this because Hello? who doesn't get all "go ahead bite me" over hot vampires?... September 28th:





I'm SURE there are more but that's all my brain has room for today.

I may seem shallow (no really?) and all but come on, Friday Night Lights and Heroes are really good shows and I have high hopes for Moonlight with a Ghost Whisperer lead-in.