Thursday, October 19, 2006

Why I'm not watching that

I am fully aware that I have irrational reasons for not watching shows, but I am usually willing to give a show a second chance. These shows have already been given a second chance and then I cut em loose.

7th Heaven-I am in awe everytime I watch this show nowadays. It is impossibly bad.
I have given it several chances over its 11 seasons. I first started watching it during the second season and probably watched it for 2 seasons before I just couldn't stomach it anymore. I gave it another chance in the 7th season for Jeremy London (I have to support all 'Party of Five' cast members, it just feels right, I mean they lost their parents on the night of the first episode, I feel like its the least I can do for them. WATCH THE NINE). It was actually significantly worse. The acting was always bad with the exceptions of Reverend Camden, Matt and Simon, but the new actors were horrible. The new kids were somehow worse than I thought possible, Peter was catastrophic and the twins were mutants. The "lesson of the week" stories were cheesy and
always stretched too far to be enjoyable. Strangely, using a "lesson of the day" is now one of my favorite teaching methods, and I think that is strongly due to 7th Heaven influence.

House-I feel that I already am gruff and irrational, and I don't really need a role model who is also a total asshole. I watched this show when it first started and was unimpressed. Then I saw ads for the show constantly. In each of these ads, House was seemingly just being a dick to be a dick. I think I actually came to the conclusion that I do not like the show, because of the ads. I did give the show another chance at the beginning of season 2, but I couldn't get over my aversion to Dr. House. I am aware that the stories may be good and even inspire hope, but I just can't.

CSI:Blah Blah Blah-The first 2 seasons were great, but at some point it just got boring and a little depressing.
When the first season came out, I thought the show and the reenactments were innovative and interesting. Then someone decided that it was better to make the show shocking, than to worry about the stories. Part of what made the show good was its unique twist on storytelling. Once the injuries became the focus, the show lost steam quickly. and now there are three of them?

Law & Order-I actually really liked the original, but I haven't watched it in about 5 years. I was addicted to 'SVU' for awhile and I thought the first season of 'Criminal Intent' was great. Somewhere along the line I realized that I couldn't take all of the dark story lines and I cut most police/crime TV shows off. The only show that made it through the cut was NYPD Blue. I am aware that all three shows are good and I fully agree that Vincent D'Onofrio is great, but I really don't feel like I need to watch another depressing/senseless/horrible crime under the 'L & O' brand.

American Idol-Okay actually I watch this one, but every year I swear I'm not going to watch it anymore. I check out the auditions for the bad singers and Simon's awesome responses, but I get hooked once I see someone who I think is actually good (This year I thought Paris was going to much better) and then I'm in it till the end. But American Idol is where I draw the line, I don't watch any other gameshow, reality show or contest. The closest thing to this I even condone is 'Extreme Makeover:Home Edition' because they do actually help needy people. Through some strange line of thought, I do however watch all Real World and Road Rules shows on MTV. I know they are bad for me, but it is just a great thing to watch as I'm faling asleep, I swear its not a problem, no really I can stop.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

You're SOOOOO wrong about SVU and House. Strap it on and give it another shot!! Why would you continue to waste your time with such sub-par trite such as 7th Heaven and How I met your Mother (Doogie Houser!!!), but you have a problem with Emmy winners Hugh Laurie and Mariska Whats-her-name from SVU??

These two gross ommissions threaten to undermine the credibility of your entire blog! Whose pocket are you in, anyway? The new WB network's??

I need to go throw up now.

mcgovernor said...

Well there youngster, I'm a bit confused.

For House and SVU, you seemingly understood that being on my list means that I am not watching it. But somehow you missed the whole connection of not watching Seventh Heaven and not watching Seventh Heaven.

And its called The CW.

Anonymous said...

You're right about 7th Heaven, I apologize for my mistake.

But substitute One Tree Hill or Gilmore Girls and you catch my drift. The CW, what does that stand for?