Totally with you on the Buffy character development. I liked her fairly well in the early seasons--not a huge fan, but found her sympathetic. But yeah, the tedious speechy leader thing, the "depression" cured by sunlight... ugh.
I'd never thought of this as a cause for the surge of interest in reality TV. That's really interesting... I'd love to read more if you decide to expand on that theory.
To be honest I've never had even the tiniest bit of desire to watch reality TV, so I haven't really thought much about it at all. Though it seems, from the tiny bit I've seen, that the shows are constructed by the editors into narratives that reinforce traditional ideals anyway. (Sort of like how they used to parade goth kids on daytime talk shows just to mock and ridicule and stereotype them in the exact same ways, without listening to anything the individual kids actually had to say).
But since I haven't watched an entire episode of a reality TV show since The Real World 1993, I'm probably missing a lot of nuance. ;)
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I'd never thought of this as a cause for the surge of interest in reality TV. That's really interesting... I'd love to read more if you decide to expand on that theory.
To be honest I've never had even the tiniest bit of desire to watch reality TV, so I haven't really thought much about it at all. Though it seems, from the tiny bit I've seen, that the shows are constructed by the editors into narratives that reinforce traditional ideals anyway. (Sort of like how they used to parade goth kids on daytime talk shows just to mock and ridicule and stereotype them in the exact same ways, without listening to anything the individual kids actually had to say).
But since I haven't watched an entire episode of a reality TV show since The Real World 1993, I'm probably missing a lot of nuance. ;)