Happy halloween / Comedy is dying
There was once a time where Halloween meant something you know. Now it's just an excuse for TV Channels to show horror and horror parody shows. Even then it's not perfect, where was the new Simpsons Treehouse of Terror? Tick or treaters are down too. 3! 3 is all I counted and we usually get at least 1 party of costumed kids every night. Last year I bought some cadbury's minature heroes especially for the little brats and not a single one turned up.
Perhaps I'm getting too old but then is everyone? What's changed in the community since I was a kid? Perhaps it's a fear of some sort. Perhaps Parents won't let their kids out because the candy they would get would make add to the invisible Obesity Problem. I say invisible because I don't see it. If it was noticable I wouldn't feel out of place in public because of my weight. I still feel like one of the biggest people in my hometown.
On a lighter note is anybody watching Sky one's show Hex? I was a little critical at first, thinking it would be another buffy like program. The main star doesn't kick ass and the shows about, well a person being cursed simple as that. It's a slow developer but it's starting to get rather creepy.
It's one of the few things worth watching on TV these days, and surprise surprise is on during Sky one Sunday. Sky One Sunday has been responsible for Showing two of my favourite progams, Futurama and Family guy. While they have been cancelled (although FG is making a comeback I hear), S.O.S. also has The Simpsons, Malcolm in the Middle and Oliver Beene. 3 Brilliant comedies in an age where comedy is dying.
Besides "My Family", which is hardly ever shown, and "They think it's all over", which has recently been relegated to the "graveyard slot", I can't think of a comedy that's made me laugh out loud on terrestial TV. The theme seems to be one of Cringeworthyness, Characters that make you cringe with stupid comments and actions. Example of these are the Office, I'm alan partridge and Little Britain. The last great comedy from the BBC was "Only fools and Horses", why don't they make something like this instead? A comedy filled with Ironic situations.
Yet the other channels still insist on Reality TV. Who ever created Big Brother deserves to be shot. They have started a craze that has poisoned TV by filling the good slots that aren't taken by the awful soaps. Big Brother, I'm a celebrity, pop idol/fame acadamy, Road Raja, The 1960's office, The Match (although the game itself was rather good), when will it all end?
Thank god for gaming. If I didn't have Pokemon Leafgreen and Sega Superstars I'd go insane. But then their appeal is wearing thin and I have no money to get anything else.
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Fanfic progress: Still planning a new one. It's getting really hard to think of something new which I can write a lot on.
Perhaps I'm getting too old but then is everyone? What's changed in the community since I was a kid? Perhaps it's a fear of some sort. Perhaps Parents won't let their kids out because the candy they would get would make add to the invisible Obesity Problem. I say invisible because I don't see it. If it was noticable I wouldn't feel out of place in public because of my weight. I still feel like one of the biggest people in my hometown.
On a lighter note is anybody watching Sky one's show Hex? I was a little critical at first, thinking it would be another buffy like program. The main star doesn't kick ass and the shows about, well a person being cursed simple as that. It's a slow developer but it's starting to get rather creepy.
It's one of the few things worth watching on TV these days, and surprise surprise is on during Sky one Sunday. Sky One Sunday has been responsible for Showing two of my favourite progams, Futurama and Family guy. While they have been cancelled (although FG is making a comeback I hear), S.O.S. also has The Simpsons, Malcolm in the Middle and Oliver Beene. 3 Brilliant comedies in an age where comedy is dying.
Besides "My Family", which is hardly ever shown, and "They think it's all over", which has recently been relegated to the "graveyard slot", I can't think of a comedy that's made me laugh out loud on terrestial TV. The theme seems to be one of Cringeworthyness, Characters that make you cringe with stupid comments and actions. Example of these are the Office, I'm alan partridge and Little Britain. The last great comedy from the BBC was "Only fools and Horses", why don't they make something like this instead? A comedy filled with Ironic situations.
Yet the other channels still insist on Reality TV. Who ever created Big Brother deserves to be shot. They have started a craze that has poisoned TV by filling the good slots that aren't taken by the awful soaps. Big Brother, I'm a celebrity, pop idol/fame acadamy, Road Raja, The 1960's office, The Match (although the game itself was rather good), when will it all end?
Thank god for gaming. If I didn't have Pokemon Leafgreen and Sega Superstars I'd go insane. But then their appeal is wearing thin and I have no money to get anything else.
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Fanfic progress: Still planning a new one. It's getting really hard to think of something new which I can write a lot on.
posted by Master hunter at 11:21 pm
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