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Non-Fiction TV: I Reject Your Reality and Substitute My Own

This thread is for non-fiction TV, including but not limited to reality television (So You Think You Can Dance, Top Chef: Masters, Project Runway), documentaries (The History Channel, The Discovery Channel), and sundry (Expedition Africa, Mythbusters), et al. [NAFDA]


le nubian - Jul 02, 2013 9:22:18 pm PDT #20861 of 23273
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

Here is the AV Club's review, which I thought was pretty good (with some links to previous dances).

[link]


Jesse - Jul 03, 2013 2:25:25 pm PDT #20862 of 23273
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I wonder if it has to do with timing. Maybe they have a shorter season this year?

The judges could have eliminated two last week! Why didn't they? This is the third week we've seen the top 20! Ridiculous. And SO MEAN making the eliminated dancers dance. What if a whole couple is eliminated?


le nubian - Jul 03, 2013 2:48:57 pm PDT #20863 of 23273
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

I wish they would put some teeth into things and be more orderly:

a) eliminate 2 people at the end of the episode this week

b) can only use the judge's save one time per contestant (no saving a person from week to week if they hit the bottom 3 multiple times)

c) do a results show, but air it online (Fox, Netflix, Amazon) to get more revenue and might shorten the show.


Jesse - Jul 03, 2013 3:51:23 pm PDT #20864 of 23273
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Apparently this is the most despicable group of BB houseguests ever, but we'll never see it on TV. I can't decide if this means I should quit watching, or do a lot of secondary reading to keep up on who's the worst.


brenda m - Jul 03, 2013 4:04:41 pm PDT #20865 of 23273
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

The pizza guy apparently called some of these racist tools on their BS, so there's at least one person to root for. So far.


Lee - Jul 03, 2013 5:40:06 pm PDT #20866 of 23273
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

If you choose the reading part, you should link me to the good stuff


le nubian - Jul 03, 2013 6:17:27 pm PDT #20867 of 23273
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

one BB article: [link]


kat perez - Jul 03, 2013 6:34:34 pm PDT #20868 of 23273
"We have trust issues." Mylar

SYTYCD: If they must have only one show a week, I'd much prefer that they do the eliminations at the end of the show as they did last year. I doubt Nigel would give up the drama of doing the eliminations on TV. He'd never put them online. I think if a couple got eliminated, they'd probably just eliminate that number, no? There would be no point making them dance if they were both out anyway. I don't have a problem with how the judges use the save because its been that way since they started doing it on this show. And while I do think they use it to prop dancer sometimes (like with Jade last night) they also have used it in the past to keep dancers around who were actually really good but just not connecting with the audience for some reason. I was really glad to see them send Alan to safety last night, for example. I think they often biff who they boot off but that's more because America tends to not send the right people to the bottom, IMHO. And yeah, that's as a result of a lot of egregious judge pimping, but that's a whole other problem. In sum, no results show is crap. Bring me my two nights of dance!

BB: I read some of the stuff the one girl said, the model? Amazing. Does she not know she's on camera all the time? I mean, really? In 2013? Wow.


brenda m - Jul 03, 2013 6:49:51 pm PDT #20869 of 23273
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

It's kind of cracking me up that she (and one other so far) have no idea they've been fired over this crap.


Lee - Jul 03, 2013 9:42:44 pm PDT #20870 of 23273
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

Thanks for the article link!