Comments on: Screens http://www.dcyoungadults.org/featured/screens/ Fri, 07 Oct 2011 19:38:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Kate http://www.dcyoungadults.org/featured/screens/comment-page-1/#comment-410 Kate Wed, 04 Aug 2010 00:48:21 +0000 http://www.dcyoungadults.org/?p=726#comment-410 Thanks for the comments. Yeah, Jonathan, I agree. While I was watching the Bachelorette that night, they previewed a show that starts soon called the Bachelor Pad and it seems like they're throwing every potential chemistry explosive person in the Bachelor house and hoping for some "good" TV. And thanks Andy, I'm really enjoying reading through your book right now - it's like balm for my soul. Thanks for the comments.

Yeah, Jonathan, I agree. While I was watching the Bachelorette that night, they previewed a show that starts soon called the Bachelor Pad and it seems like they’re throwing every potential chemistry explosive person in the Bachelor house and hoping for some “good” TV.

And thanks Andy, I’m really enjoying reading through your book right now – it’s like balm for my soul.

]]> By: Andy Root http://www.dcyoungadults.org/featured/screens/comment-page-1/#comment-409 Andy Root Tue, 03 Aug 2010 23:59:17 +0000 http://www.dcyoungadults.org/?p=726#comment-409 Kate, These are some great thoughts. And thanks for the dialogue with The Promise of Despair. Very cool site. Andy Kate,

These are some great thoughts. And thanks for the dialogue with The Promise of Despair. Very cool site.

Andy

]]> By: Jonathan Brink http://www.dcyoungadults.org/featured/screens/comment-page-1/#comment-408 Jonathan Brink Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:21:52 +0000 http://www.dcyoungadults.org/?p=726#comment-408 I watch another gameshow called Wipeout. Contestants navigate an obstable course and get pummeled a long the way. What I've noticed is that the course is designed to produce moments of hilarious pummeling. In other words, its designed for the laugh, not the contestants. I've watched the Bachelor and the Bachelorette in the past and I can help but wonder the same thing. The show is not really designed to produce relationship. It's designed to produce a moment where we cringe, guffaw, and laugh AT the contestants. We're in on the gag because we now know from the history of the show that no matter how much they think its real, it is not. I watch another gameshow called Wipeout. Contestants navigate an obstable course and get pummeled a long the way. What I’ve noticed is that the course is designed to produce moments of hilarious pummeling. In other words, its designed for the laugh, not the contestants.

I’ve watched the Bachelor and the Bachelorette in the past and I can help but wonder the same thing. The show is not really designed to produce relationship. It’s designed to produce a moment where we cringe, guffaw, and laugh AT the contestants. We’re in on the gag because we now know from the history of the show that no matter how much they think its real, it is not.

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