Wednesday, August 17, 2005
If this is the Real World, send me to the phony one.
As a resident of the ATX (Austin Texas), I was surprised to hear our fair city had been picked for The Real World. Not because I didn't think Austin was big enough or hip enough to host the show, I had just forgotten the show was still on. I haven't watched this show since they were in New York the second time. I'm not a big reality show fan, and usually the formats for these shows grow tired after the first couple of seasons. Still since the show would be taking place in my town, I decided to watch it this season. The sacrifices I make for civic pride.
One thing I'd like to ask long time viewers, have the kids who go on this show become dumber, more shallow, more immature and oblivious than they use to be? Not that they were a bunch of rocket scientist and deep philosophers before, but this crew makes it seem like they were. The debate they had one week about the Iraq war illustrated this. Both sides of the debate were equally misinformed. It wouldn't have hurt if maybe they had read a book about the war, or read some informative articles about it, maybe even watched a news program on it not hosted by Bill O'Reilly. For these kids, that would interfere with drinking and screwing. Can't these kids drink and screw and maybe pick up a book, and watch something other than The Real World?
If you watch this show you'd think that the only thing Austin consisted of is sixth street. They occasionally show pictures of Austin outside of sixth street, but when you see the cast, they are either in their house or at some bar on sixth street. I'm not the Chambers of Commerce so I'm not going to run off all the things they could be doing in Austin, (you can go to this link to find out if you're interested http://www.helloaustin.com), but there's more to do than just roam sixth street.
Anyway last night's program was every parents nightmare, if your daughter is dumb enough, drunk enough and wants to be on TV enough to sleep with someone as repellent as Wes on national TV. I hope that after she saw herself on TV last night she didn't try to jump off a bridge. Of course she might have been proud of herself after seeing it. In that case, try the Frost Bank Tower, the chances of survival are pretty thin.
One thing I'd like to ask long time viewers, have the kids who go on this show become dumber, more shallow, more immature and oblivious than they use to be? Not that they were a bunch of rocket scientist and deep philosophers before, but this crew makes it seem like they were. The debate they had one week about the Iraq war illustrated this. Both sides of the debate were equally misinformed. It wouldn't have hurt if maybe they had read a book about the war, or read some informative articles about it, maybe even watched a news program on it not hosted by Bill O'Reilly. For these kids, that would interfere with drinking and screwing. Can't these kids drink and screw and maybe pick up a book, and watch something other than The Real World?
If you watch this show you'd think that the only thing Austin consisted of is sixth street. They occasionally show pictures of Austin outside of sixth street, but when you see the cast, they are either in their house or at some bar on sixth street. I'm not the Chambers of Commerce so I'm not going to run off all the things they could be doing in Austin, (you can go to this link to find out if you're interested http://www.helloaustin.com), but there's more to do than just roam sixth street.
Anyway last night's program was every parents nightmare, if your daughter is dumb enough, drunk enough and wants to be on TV enough to sleep with someone as repellent as Wes on national TV. I hope that after she saw herself on TV last night she didn't try to jump off a bridge. Of course she might have been proud of herself after seeing it. In that case, try the Frost Bank Tower, the chances of survival are pretty thin.
