love cruise

[lasttry]

i doubt anyone has watched this show....the last episode is tuesday....but it was pretty good as a reality show to me... i actually watched every single episode....

anybody else seen it?

[que90nek]

i tried to watch it once....but it was just on at a bad time for me.

[Brightness]

I watched it once or twice. . .but I didn't know when it began or when it was ending. . .now I know so I'll watch on Tuesday.

There's also this show called shipmates that comes on here or was still coming on late at night (after midnight) a week or two ago. It has singles hooking up and spending three or so days together on a cruise ship going on dates, etc. It's not about any money, it's more like Love Connection meets LoveBoat.

[seductive_tee]

I've watched about 1/2 of it....couldn't get into it.

[Andre98]

I have steadfastly tried to avoid even a minute of any of this latest wave of shows on the screen. People being brought together to get all pent up with each other seems pointless. I still can't get use to the fact that today's main entertainment on TV has come to this. I am watching people that are basically "kids" emotionally, most of them half my age, conducting themselves like they are such complex adults. Given that the networks have the luxury of editing at their disposal, the best parts, the parts that may even point up the absurity of the whole venture gets left "on the cutting room floor", as the phrase goes.

First and foremost, in all these shows, the participants know they are "on, that they are being filmed, even if the cameras are hidden well. Make no mistake, the networks have got them all due diligently signed off on all the necessary waiver forms. So all the self serving monologues aren't fooling me. Weeks ago, no one knew these folks existed, now Joe the Slacker has an audience of millions. I can't imagine caring any less about what he has to say.

The pundits were right, it seems like such useless drivel now (after 09/2001). But I still watch a lot of other useless drivel, like The Weakest Link, so I won't hold that against them.

I just can't believe that in the relationship shows like "Temptation Island", which I did watch when the feeling was somewhat new, that you can sign up for the show, knowing the premise is to run you through some emotional and sexual obstacle course, with all these "dates" and scenarios cooked up, and then they fall right into all the obvious traps set for them, like watching a videotape of a kiss between your S/O and one of the network's "hired guns"... Unless I see a tape of them, filmed like a porno, actually doing the nasty, what are they going ballistic for? And if none of the "marks", the participants, ever kissed or put their hands on anyone else, playing the totally faithful angel, there would be no show. We are all fond of the dance, the courtship, the flirt, the newness of it is a strong intoxicant, and that's what keeps shows like Blind Date and Change of Heart all rolling along. Being able to be peeking in on the relationship of your neighbors is a time tested vice that is hard to control. We can say we are above it, but then, most of our neighbors also have drapes on their windows, and the common sense to pull them close. The sons of bitches that control TV tap into that weak willed, neurotic, co-dependent part of our psyches and feeds it with a morphine drip. Could it be "The Matrix" is already here?