Where has TV gone? The Reality Takeover!

Reality…
Oh reality television….
Let’s talk TV, reality TV. Now there are many types of reality TV….
The reality TV that gets people places and requires at least some kind of talent. American Idol, So You Think You Can Dance, those kinds.

Then there are the for your improvement kids, Biggest Loser, etc.

Move onto the celebrity kind, of which there are two. Let’s try to show we can do something other than what we do, like Dancing with the Stars and the I’m so desperate to revitalize the career I never had, like Celebrity Rehab, The Surreal Life etc.

Then there is the dumpster diving rest of reality. The shows that pin people against each other in ridiculous circumstances only to watch them make fools of themselves and one to win some type of money.

That is not the lowest point either, that would be the re-peat reality. The ones where obscure reality contestants make enough of a fool of themselves to get their own show. Rock of Love got Daisy of Love, I love flavor flav became I Love New York, stuff like that.

Sometimes I’m not sure which is worse, the producers/creators for allowing this crap, or the reality ‘stars’ who have seemingly been on every show on certain networks.

What has TV come to? Well if you have been watching the news it has recently come to a reality contestants flee across the country as he is wanted in questioning in the brutal murder of his ‘wife’. Not only was the man a multi-show reality addict, but so was the person whose show (Megan Wants a Millionaire) he was currently on. A woman who seems to have an addiction to reality shows that might make her money-she has no problem admitting she’s a gold-digger, she just probably wasn’t expecting one of her suitors to be a possibly married grave-digger.

Reality do me a favor, if you aren’t going to be about a skill, or a talent, cease to exist. Since that won’t happen anytime soon-could you at least do better background/character checks? I mean reality stars in jail, on the run; this is not the direction I want America or its television to go. And people blame video games for brutal behavior.

Lets talk about sex, baby...

Ok, so I'm not old enough to exactly remember old hollywood as its called, but I have a feeling that recently they may have been turning over in their graves.

Has anyone taken a look at movies recently? More importantly, has anyone taken a look at the stars, if you can call them that.

Now to be fair, not all film stars fall into the, hot but not much else category. To those, I say, rock on. Its to the recent onslaught of cant do much more then pout, wear a tight dress, or go shirtless crowd that I feel a new disdain for.

The old hollywood stars were hot to, but in that glam way, not the skank way. And while they were hot, they could also sing, dance and act. Today, all you have to be is hot. Don't agree? Megan Fox-yeah, running around with CG robots-not exactly groundbreaking performance. Lindsay Lohan? Screaming and writhing s neither singing, or dancing. Chad Michael Murray? I don't even want to start. If the best we can do in the future triple-threat status is Zac Efron, I may start crying now.

If these are the stars of tomorrow, now and the future-our future is in serious trouble. I'm from this era, so I get the hot, gyrating, nakedness being a draw. But, I also appreciate being able to walk into a theatre and feeling like I truly saw a performance. I'm getting worried that may not be all that visible if we keep playing hot over ability.

My rant of discontent is placed firmly between opening weekend of GI Joe-and G-force. When did good quality films require art house movie theatres to be seen? When will we make, just for fun-heat-and speed movie theatres. Oh Paper Heart and Inglorious Bastards...please help restore my faith.