People who watch a show just to rip it apart really amuse me. I'm not sure why.

I fear I sometimes come off as one of those people, though more with movies than shows. People don't get that criticism is part of the fun. Of course, if it's not FUN, then why are they doing it? That's what I don't get. No one MAKES you watch bad TV (now THERE'S an idea for a serial killer character...). (Or good TV, nobody does that, either.) Turn it off, leave the room, read a book - it's not hard to get away from.

Please have an internet user serial killer.

And have him kill celebrities turned ballroom dancers.

In all fairness, it is Television Without Pity.

No one MAKES you watch bad TV

Relatedly, no one makes anyone read TwoP either.

This is true.

And, I almost don't want to post this, but I might as well...

"The Inside" (households: 2.6/4, #13; adults 18-49: 1.6, #13). The new summer drama was off 19% in households and 20% in adults 18-49 from its debut numbers last week (households: 3.2/5; adults 18-49: 2.0 on 6/8/05).

Yeah, kinda the raison d'etre of the site is to bust on guilty pleasure shows. Though I am slightly mystified by the people who loathe something passionately right out of the gate and continue posting to that effect for months on end.

Relatedly, no one makes anyone read TwoP either.

A true, true thing. But it seems to me that most of the people here seem to be reading it with fun in mind, or, in Tim's case perhaps, to gauge a general reaction to the show. I myself, for example, am not reading anything over there right now.

I do enjoy the Veronica Mars recaps.

I understand that people have problems with gore on tv shows and that context does play a lot into it.

But, honestly, I don't think that anything on prime time is as gorey as what Discovery Health channel shows during the day.

A couple months ago I was flipping through the channels and lighted on Discovery Health. It looked interesting, trauma in the ER. There's this guy on the exam table, obviously in pain and shock, he's moaning, there's blood and medical professionals all around. They say something about an accident, and the doctors are talking. And then one hands the other the guy's severed foot.

I almost threw up on the cat.

They were probably going to try and re attach it or something, I don't know, I couldn't watch anymore.

That's my bench mark for gross now. So far The Inside has not topped the severed foot and I don't think it will.

Gore doesn't bother me. I might turn away (never seen a surgery on Nip/Tuck and never will), but I'm not upset or offended that it's there.

That being said, I haven't had to hide my eyes yet.

Personally, gore doesn't remotely bother me, at all. I'm not sure why.