The Slime
I watch way too much TV. It’s on pretty much whenever I’m at home.
Before my mind is completely rotted and I am left a drooling vegetable in the middle of the living room, gazing blankly into a screen of randomly changing images, I have a couple of observations I’d like to make.
- Way too many cop shows. All intensively violent, fast paced, one sided and propagandistic. CSI, Criminal Minds, Third Watch are a few that we get over here in socialist Europe.
It’s the technology bit that really ticks me off, and I’ll tell you why. Because it’s bullshit. If the police actually had access to that stuff and knew how to use it, crime would be over and there would be a serious risk of us becoming a police state. Some good, some bad.
Even the hospital shows wind up being cop shows half of the time. Which is really, really unrealistic but how boring would a realistic hospital show be. Can you imagine that as a reality show? Who will die next.
I remember one episode of House that particulary angered me. There were two brothers, and one was dependent on the other for a bone marrow transplant. After numerous misdiagnoses and screwups, they wound up (well, one doctor, spur of the moment) drilling directly into this poor kid’s bone without even the benefit of local anesthetic while he screamed horribly. The doctor had a soul searching moment about it later “I tortured a kid…” The word torture was used a couple of times. But it was a necessity. One that only a writer could create.
It’s bad enough when cop shows do that.
- Discovery Channel is far too fond of car shows and jackass type stuff and blowing stuff up. I’d much rather they enlighten me about the world. I like animal planet but their surely must be other animals out there besides sharks and crocodiles. Jeezus. It’s the cop shows of the wild. You never saw a lion read a zebra his Miranda rights, did you? That’s the cop everybody is rooting for.
- History Channel might as well be the WWII Channel. Which is not too bad. Whenever they do history since 1960, I wind up shouting “Liar!” at the screen a lot, which makes me wonder what they’re lying to us about that happened before that, and how far into the future do we need to go before we stop lying to ourselves about the present, or does the lie eventually become real?
- I get really bored when they show people’s old home movies, though.
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