[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Survivor popularity

[Amanda Lewanski]

Jamieson wrote:

> catherine at cator-manor.demon.co.uk wrote:
>
>>
>> Erm...?   What is the Survivor show?
>
> Survivor, now in it's second season, is a reality television show.

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And a big reason I don't tend to watch these, in any incarnation
(besides the fact that generally I don't have time, given the
kids'n'all), is that I think it insults my intelligence to call it
"reality TV." Honestly. Reality has absolutely nothing to do with what
goes on on these things. I have this mental image of the camera and
production people, sitting back under their beach umbrellas and drinking
condensation-beaded cokes out of coolers, while they're filming these
"survivors" under these "dangerous" conditions. Not to mention all that
spontaneous, unscripted, undirected interaction that just happens to
have good camera angles and audible dialogue. Yeah, right.

"Reality TV" is a blend of the talk-show genre, where "real people" air
their grievances and dirty laundry, and soap operas. Neither of which I
care for, either. It's just that adding the label "reality" to something
so patently synthetic is the last straw.

--Amanda
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