>>"And no one wants to drag their family skeletons onto the boards, I imagine."
No one, of course, except for the MIGHTY DRAFTERVOI! All closet doors are open here! I've
spent most of my life as an alcoholic and a drug addict, and my brothers are, too. Intimate details of every time I have thrown up are available here, for free! Ever do heroin in a public toilet of a bar with water taken from a urinal? I LOVE THAT KIND OF STUFF!!
Personally, I LOVE "Big Brother" and "Survivor" and "Real World" (and lets throw "Cops" in there, too), because DRAMATIC ARCS SUCK.
Just the other day, a seven year old girl that I know was commenting on some movie she saw, and said, "But they should have destroyed the monster eggs at the end. They forgot to do that, so they can have a sequel."
Think about that: even a 7 year old knows when she is being manipulated by WRITERS.
I would rather watch real people doing real things, no matter how stupid or trivial, than to ever have to watch CHARACTERS walk around a sound stage uttering dialog put in their mouths by someone else. I'm sick of the clichés, bored with dramatic conventions, annoyed with actors, and I can spot a plot point a mile away. DRAMATIC ARCS SUCK, REALITY ROCKS.
These message boards, webcams on the Internet, reality TV shows and journals such as Secra's Footnotes www.secraterri.com are the future of entertainment because we have become SATURATED WITH PLOT DEVICES; there are no more surprises in drama.
Yet another murder mystery where it turns out to be someone you don't suspect? YAWN.
Yet another sitcom with a wacky neighbor who just WALKS into the house without knocking uttering off-beat non-sequiters? Double YAWN.
Oh, look! There's a really plain girl (you can tell she's plain because she has her hair up in a bun and they put glasses on her) who somehow transforms into a vivacious sexbomb Hollywood starlet va-va-voom by merely taking off her glasses, unbuttoning the top button on her blouse, and letting down her hair! Whoa. Didn't see THAT one coming.
Triple yawn.
THIS (at this point, a giddy and halfnaked DRaftervoi is standing up and gesticulating wildly at YOUR computer screen) IS THE FUTURE OF ENTERTAINMENT!!
Юä-¦-ërvØ¡: Life is short, Art is long