by Brandie L., age 15I don't get it. I'm sorry, but it doesn't make sense to me. What's the big deal with television?
It's all a bunch of lousy re-runs from lousy shows with lousy plot lines and lousy jokes. We've all seen the same thing time and time again, yet we still tune in. I must have watched the same episodes of Everybody Loves Raymond, Seinfeld, and Home Improvement a thousand times, yet I still take time to turn off the satelite and pop in a DVD of the same show.
What's the facination? Is it the need to feel like everybody else? I told a friend once that I hadn't watched TV in over three months. She looked at me as though I had just told her that my real name was Todd, I live in Long Island, and I'm 42 with a wife and two kids when, in fact, I'm 15, unmarried, childless, not named Todd, and living in California.
My family's favorite line for turning on the television is, "There's never anything good on TV."
It's true. Still the television drives my father to buy all nine seasons of the X Files and watch them with bright, wondering eyes. Is there still nothing on TV?
Maybe the bright side of the DVD of the same thing that you could watch on TV gives the satisfying sense that you can watch the same thing as you would have any time you want, anywhere you want, and also skip out on the commercials. Perhaps the television networks have conned us into some neverending game of 'Everyone but me is a sucker' rigged for the viewing audience's demise ever since Lucy and Ethel graced the black-and-white screen.
I still don't get it though.
The modern day sitcom is either of a group of single guys/girls in their twenties or of a man and a woman possibly with children. Isn't this the everyday life, America? What makes it so special? Because they are better looking people who have immaculate witty banter?
What is so great about it?
I must say that the same thing applies to the internet. After a while things just aren't that interesting anymore. I pretty much stay so vividly on the internet for just a couple things- MySpace, AIM, Yahoo!, Wikipedia, and Google. The rest really doesn't seem all that important. Sure, I visit a few other sites every once in a while, but most of my computer time is spent either talking to someone on AIM, writing random people emails ranting about the most unimportant things, or messing with a program like Photoshop or Word.
After a while, things get repetitive.
Perhaps it's time to shake things up, leave the computer and TV behind and do something new and exciting. Ha ha, any suggestions?
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