today is my usual saturday-television-spree, i started around 9 in the morning with a movie, a jackie chan movie, shanghai knights. i thought it was hilarious and owen wilson's soft voice was enchanting or so i thought...
come 1:00 i watched the contenders, then at 2:00 i watched UAAP for UST has a game and gladly they won, partly because JEMAL VIZCARRA was scorching hot, he scored 23 points can you belive that? well his really good although his three point shooting was very awful that afternoon 1 out 10? it doesnt matter because they won anyways, it was against a very depleted Adamson Falcons by the way.
then seventh heaven at 7:50 then boston public at 8:30.
it was with boston public that had me thinking all night. part of the story was about two high school boys organizing a bump fight (not so sure), it was for their web sites. they got two homeless drunkards and have them agreed to fight for $100 and if somebody bleeds additional $5o, then one of the fighters died. then they all have to go to court. ms. cooke the lawyer-turned-teacher represented for the two boys during the whole ordeal. during the summation of the probable cause hearing, ms. cooke said that "suffering sells". she mentioned allusions to fear factor, then the bachelor and all those reality tv, capitalizing on the suffering of their contestants and making money out of it.
so true. i couldn't agree more.
i have never been a huge fun of reality tv although at times a find it entertaining and interesting but the whole idea of going through a lot of humiliation and suffering just to get money is preposterous. the tension that builds up is incredulously sureal as if the organizers of the show are the one instigating the tension just to entice viewers and have them hanging by thier seats glued to the tv.
we need not to look at foreign shows, we have them right here. News Shows particularly TV Patrol, can you believe the amount of violence, abuse and manipulation going on in there? when the criminal is assaulted in front of the camera? talk about abuse of the sufferings, they abuse the vulnerability of the criminals, the intense emotions of the victim, for what? so the viewers would stay glued on tv. even if it wasnt worth some much air time they still show it just for the heck of it. of course the viewers are not completely faultless, we encouraged these kinds of scene and we have so much fun watching other people suffer, humiliated so that we can have our own good time, imagine that?
gone are the days, when everybody wishes good to everyone and dignity counts more than money. gone are the days when we can just watch tv and just have a wholesome fun.
another thing, sitcom??? when does this become lets-laugh-about-my-stupid-and-disastrous-life. it seems that their life are just one big comedy when in fact it involves each and everyone of them. when does the actor begins and the human being ends? i wish that tv wasn't so powerful that we have to be dependent on them and the way they shape our minds.
suffering sells. so sad that when someone suffers everybody laughs. what does it take to sell it, oh nothing just a thing called dignity and integrity.
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name is Ma. Francia Camacho Rosero.
Libran (go figure where her birth date falls) in the year 1985. Sees
herself as a leader,
she never avoid situations
where she can learn and improve. She
has a knack for reading and really likes her skin color
(hence, the inspiration for the picture) because it
makes her truly Filipino. She loves to sing while doing the dishes and dance
while cleaning. She loves to watch movies and laugh with Vic and Jose. She digs
Disney movies and still loves Lindsay Lohan although she metamorphosed to
something undistinguishable. She has great and big dreams
both for herself and family but find those dreams really selfish, since she
hasn't figured out yet what she can for her country. She would love to work for
humanity. But for the mean time she's just working on familiarizing herself with
every word in the dictionary. A destructive perfectionist, she loves to ask how
things work and likes to know why things works this way and not that way. She is
fascinated by the Arab Culture, Mafia and organized crimes and she really likes
History. She loves watching the news and listening to speeches. She likes
watching sports although she doesn't really know how to play them and one habit
she has been trying to overcome is stalking actors and actresses. She is a frustrated athlete.
And she's serious about her spirituality. 