I mean, once you’ve resigned yourself to becoming a regular and willing consumer of shit, you can’t really complain about the corn husks that get stuck in your teeth.
It’s all part of the act. They gotta build the drama, tension, and fear, and then they gotta really drive it home to the viewers.
Otherwise it’s just a bunch of friendly housegusts lounging by the pool and reading novels, a quiet college graduate casually musing about the island’s sunsets, and the smart, motivated professionals crossing the finish line 12 hours ahead of the runner-up. All with nothing but the sound of the wind in the background. Really, where’s the fun in that?
(Geez, didn’t think this board would be the one with the incredibly stringent OP standards, didja? You’ll get used to it. )
Actually, they just realise that a significant proportion of the people who watch their shows are too challenged to be able to recognise when they are experiencing a particular emotion, and need to have an aural prompt to let them know.
Please. I put it in the Pit because it wasn’t a General Question. You shootin’ for fighting ignorance, or Garden Variety Internet Troll? ‘Way worser’. Indeed.
As far as my choice of viewing, Reality TV seems to creep in anywhere there’s a spare 5 minutes in the schedule. Food Fucking TV has reality programming fer chrissakes. They’ve turned it into a requirement for hire.
I don’t think the OP can necessarily be blamed for choosing to watch this stuff. These days, I watch about two hours a week of actual broadcast television, and even I know some of the stuff that’s going on in Big Brother Whateverbloodynumberthey’reuptonow. It gets everywhere. Like grit.
(Of course, this is why I only watch two hours of TV a week.)
Or the OP may be in the unfortunate position of being a passive consumer … I have gained an in-depth knowledge of several of the more dreary soap operas, just from visiting my mother …
Although I’ve seen more reality shows than I care to admit, I’m having trouble conjuring up this sound. Is it the sound of a needle scratching across what we greying types used to call a “record”?
Does anyone have a link to the sound? I was going to say I didn’t watch reality TV, but I think Iron Chef, Top Chef, and Project Runway count, and I’ve watched those. I don’t think they use the sound, though.
My Google-fu is weak. It’s played on the Food competition stuff on Food TV…any time a blown sugar confection crumbles, or a next new FoodTV star gets canned.
It’s kinda like a cross between someone playing a hand saw, and running wood through a tablesaw. a High pitched whine…only with more nails on chalkboard.
It’s actually 10 seconds into that first ad. I swear the first time I hit that site they had an unrelated ad, THEN the 15 second Food Network Star Ad, THEN the recap.
I was just ripping that sound the other night. I was sitting on the couch trying to chill, but my wife had some lame reality show on. They didn’t fucking stop with the sound. Well, this one was more like a “SLAM!” As if a bank vault door just fell into the room.
Every damn channel has to have their own stupid reality show now. The Next Food Star which is just another area for Bobby Flay to squirt his ego all over the walls. It’s just fucking food, get a life, people. 90% of the shows on the Food Channel is just watching one douche after another eat. And DesignStar: Guts, Glory, Glam! are you fucking kidding me? LAME. That’s what we need is another weak personality host another damn remodeling show. If I hear the word “reveal” one more time, I’m going to poke the eyes out of a small, innocent creature. Then, all the manipulative editing they do. A judge will lob some really limp critique, then they cut to some footage of the contestants just standing there with blank stares (which was probably shot as the gaffers where adjusting the lighting), and kill the sound, so it looks like they are just taking it up the ass. That’s when they play the “SOUND”. It’s so stoopidly transparent. I can’t take it anymore. I’m waiting for The Home Shopping Network’s reality show to go though 22 weeks of nominating the next shill to hock cheap ass jewelry.
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