Now don't get me wrong here, I think Australian Idol was good. When Guy Sebastian won. It has been downhill from there. Granted Guy Sebastian won in the first season, and after that I thought the show was stupid. This applies to all reality TV shows, spanning from Survivor, to Big Brother. The ONLY exceptions are Masterchef and So You Think You Can Dance.
Now, it is safe to assume I do not enjoy my reality TV shows. They bug me, and I know they bug a lot of people. Granted, they are really awesome when they start out, but as life goes on, the repetitiveness of the show gets dull, and even with new twists and thrills, nothing can save the 'Reality TV' Syndrome. They just generally stink. I don't know why they keep showing them. But I guess for those young pre-teens who are just growing up into adolescent-hood, they enjoy them enough to keep it going, if not hyping it up further. It happened with Twilight, so it can happen to anything.
On the topic of Twilight, I believe that its a good C, if not B-grade book. Just severely overrated. Severely, severely overrated. Mostly by a few groups I have singled out.
Pre-Teens- Those girls, sometimes guys, who just try a bit too hard to be older than they are by being romantic and stuff like that, and reading Twilight because its thicker than all the books they have read up to that point combined. One point for those Tweens; Vampires burn in the sun, they don't sparkle. (Yes, I have read the book, from a neutral, if not positive point of view, so you can't dump shit on me about how you don't think its overrated because frankly, it is)
Teen to young adult couples- Those who try to be more romantic to there significant other, or for guys, to show that they appear to have a sweet side. Yes, it works on the girl, but it doesn't stop you from being a wank-stain.
Old women- I didn't exactly know this one, but a friend assures me that old women read it to rekindle romance in their marriages. It sounds valid so I guess I would put this in.
Back to the point, I was at Masterchef and So You Think You Can Dance being the only good reality TV shows, and that Australian Idol scares me.
Yes Australian Idol, now this year looks far worse than any other year. The producers don't seem to be advertising as much, and they tried to spice up the show by having a country girl who just absolutely had to wear a cowboy hat at every point you saw her.
Frankly, Idol is trying way too hard this year to keep viewers, and it shows quite obviously. The fact that their ratings has been dropping doesn't surprise me. As said before, after the first winner, it lost most of its shine, and about where Damien Leith won, I really stopped following it all together.
Big Brother got a few laughs, but after the Turkey-Slap incident, it should've been taken off all together.
In short, all reality TV shows, start out brightly like any show, and end up in oblivion (hopefully not SYTYD or Masterchef). Prolonging the inevitable axing of the show is really painful for everyone, and other popular shows are prevented from airing. All shows do start out brightly and start dwindling, but as normal shows can develop storylines, and have more twists and turns than seatbelts get in times of urgency. Reality TV shows can't do that. They can't pull of storylines, and twists and turns gets harsh treatment from the government in many cases. Basically, reality TV shows should only go on for a short period of time, and after an appropriate portion of time, are allowed to come back to be viewed, but shoving them in everyone's faces does get annoying. I still wonder how Survivor keeps running. Oh and game shows, I do think half of them fail very badly, but I don't want to get into that now... Tired.
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