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TV is shit

CommandoDudeCommandoDude
edited 2011-06-13 18:26:15 in General
CRIMINAL SCUM!
What happened to the 90s? [NostalgiaFilter]

Seriously, SciFi, err, whops, I mean "SyFy" barely has any science fiction still on it, just that useless twilight knockoff teen garbage. The history channel is now more then half dedicated to 'supernatural' phenomena, prophecy bullshit, and the end of the world. The rest is crappy reality shows with fake drama, and old reruns of their WWII productions. Cartoon Network ditched their main product, you know, cartoons? For that CNReal crap. Really, their whole channel started going downhill after they slowly killed their most successful block, Toonami. Disney is filled with tons of either A) teen girl shows, with awesome female rolemodels! or B) 'comedies' with emphasis on the 'drama' and little humor. Spike is now just "Guy shit" programming. Discovery Channel did Sarah Palin's Alaska. But really, mythbusters was the only show worth watching there.

/rant

Comments

  • ForzareForzare
    Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the last Day.
    I have Doctor Who.  Your opinion is invalid.

    There's a lot of bad TV now, but there's always been a lot of bad TV.  There's definitely still a ton of good stuff that's happened since the 90s, if you look.  Doctor Who.  Game of Thrones.  Avatar The Last Airbender.
  • IanExMachinaIanExMachina
    I am Dr. Ned who is totally not Dr. Zed in disguise.
    Watch any of the Life in the x series with the magically wonderful David Attenborough as narrator and general all around amazing zoologist and nice guy.
  • snowbullsnowbull
    Cue-bey
    I stopped watching TV years ago, and so should you.
  • InsanityAddictInsanityAddict
    edited 2011-06-13 18:35:13
    Diet NEET
    ^Amen, torrent everything. Or stream. As long as you strike a blow at those big, mean corporations.
  • MyrmidonMyrmidon
    It's always been like this. It's just that bad shows are generally forgotten.
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    What Myr said. Also, yeah, Doctor Who might be tthe greatest thing on right now.
  • MadassAlexMadassAlex
    One foot in front of the other, every day.
    Everything on the History channel is bullshit, or WWII.

    Unless it's Tony Robinson, who covers a fairly wide spectrum. He did a neato little thing on Anglo-Saxon law. Also, there are a lot of reality shows concerning fishing vessels. Fucking seriously? How the hell is the market for reality shows about fishing vessels so profitable?

    A lot of channels are for really specific audiences, and so are closed to me almost automatically.

    Sci-Fi/SyFy mostly plays huge blocks of 90s reruns, like Buffy, Angel and Xena.

    Cartoon Network has Dragonball Z on at 10.30 pm, but that clashes with Samurai Jack at the same time on Boomerang, so Cartoon Network really has nothing for me.

    Somtimes, there's an okay movie on the movies channels. But I get really disappointed when I see a title like "Voyage of the Damned" and it's some social commentary and not a film about an actual voyage of the damned. Films should probably stop doing that, so please call your films something along the lines of "Some Jews Try To Escape Nazi Germany By Sea But Are Forcibly Turned Back And Have To Deal With It". You can use "SJTTENGBSBAFTBAHTDWI" for short.
  • All NinesAll Nines
    Has friends besides tanks now
    I don't have much to add to the topic except concurrence, but the mention of Game of Thrones reminds me that I have to find some method of watching it online still.
  • Wicked223Wicked223
    We Played Some Open Chords and Rejoiced, For the Earth Had Circled the Sun Yet Another Year
    Cartoon Network ditched their main product, you know, cartoons? For that CNReal crap.


    Cartoon Network has, at this point, more cartoons airing than it's ever had at any point in its lifespan.

    None of the shows from CN Real are still airing. Jesus, can we please move on from that shit?
  • DYREDYRE
    But it's very convenient as material to complain about, so why should something like facts get in the way of that?
  • ninjaclownninjaclown
    edited 2011-06-13 19:41:43
    ^^Survive This, Destroy Build Destroy, Dude what would happen...still playing. Survive This is actually good, mind you, but what you said was factually incorrect.

    Also, most of their non-action cartoons (like all of them except for three) are chosen for cost-effectiveness rather than censorship skirting.
  • GLORIOUSLeaderGLORIOUSLeader
    When in Turkey, ROCK THE FUCK OUT
    And there's also Hole in the Wall, a show rejected by Fox. This, remember, is a channel that greenlit some of these fine gems. 
  • DYREDYRE
    chosen for cost-effectiveness rather than censorship skirting.

    Um... is "censorship skirting" the way shows are supposed to be chosen?
  • ninjaclownninjaclown
    edited 2011-06-13 20:16:56
    Dexter's Lab and PPG pushed the envelope whenever they could. There was a clip about Mojo on valentine's day that implied prison sex, but it's gone from youtube.

    Wait I found another one, it's at the end of this episode:

  • All NinesAll Nines
    edited 2011-06-13 20:22:23
    Has friends besides tanks now
    Yet another one from FOX* — the insipid reality show Who's Your Daddy?. A person who had been adopted as an infant is forced to pick out his/her biological father from a group of 25 men. Picking the right man won $100,000, but otherwise the "impostor" got the money. Yes, you read that correctly — somebody at FOX thought it would be a bright idea to take the paternity tests from Maury and build an entire reality show around them. After being hit with poor ratings, massive public backlash, and the Raleigh-Durham affiliate (WRAZ, the same station that refused to air Married by America) refusing to broadcast the show, FOX canned it after one episode... then aired the other five episodes they had filmed on their Fox Reality cable channel. (So they canned Firefly and saved this?)

    brb laughing my ass off
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    Someone needs to MST Sarah Palin's Alaska.
  • DYREDYRE
    edited 2011-06-13 20:21:46
    Yeah, I know there are shows that made jokes like that.  But what I mean is that I don't see why that should be used as an indicator of a show's quality.  Powerpuff Girls was a good show, but that wasn't because it made jokes about implied prison rape.
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