Zoe: I thought you wanted to spend more time off-ship this visit. Wash: Out there is seems like it's all fancy parties. I like our party better. The dress code is easier and I know all the steps.

'Shindig'


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]


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!


Jesse - Jul 04, 2013 3:34:13 am PDT #20871 of 23273
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

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

Oh, that's good to hear!

Oh, also, apparently BB After Dark is on TV Guide channel this year? I wonder how they are going to work that -- must be with a delay. But also I guess that means I could watch it, if I'm ever up late.


-t - Jul 04, 2013 1:11:22 pm PDT #20872 of 23273
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I'm only up through teh elimination on SYTYCD, but I had to come in here and say that I think putting all that emotion at the beginning of the show is a bad idea for teh structure of the show, never mind making eliminated dancers perform and dncing for your life knowing you've got more dancing to do no matter what. It's all bad and they should stop it immediately.

It was confusing last year when someone who danced really well in the current episode was eliminated for the previous week's performance, but this way is so much worse. And I guess they need time for America to vote, but that's really where the problem comes in, isn't it?


-t - Jul 04, 2013 2:39:08 pm PDT #20873 of 23273
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

At the very least, they could announce the bottom 3 or 6 or whatever it is at the beginning and then take into account the new performances when they decide who to save and who to dend home. Why wouldn't they do that?

Carlos shouldn't have gone home, is what I'm saying.


Amy - Jul 04, 2013 3:47:12 pm PDT #20874 of 23273
Because books.

I just watched the eliminations (and the opening number!) the other day -- on Tuesday night I got home just in time to see the first competition performance, so I just kept watching.

The whole thing is really strange -- and what I found even stranger, unless he was just trying to create drama, was Nigel asking Brittany and Carlos if they would be able to dance later. What if they had said no? Surely the whole format was explained ahead of time. Maybe it was to point out to Fox how awful just one show a week is, in this regard?

It really is weird. Honestly, I'd like it better if the eliminated were informed offstage, and they got to tape a goodbye or something to show on the next episode. But then the whole save thing wouldn't work, either.


le nubian - Jul 04, 2013 3:49:13 pm PDT #20875 of 23273
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

On twitter he defended this move by saying he prefers the eps to end on a positive note. Which of course is utter bullshit because by eliminating people at the top of the show, there is no positive note to end on because the whole show now has the angel of death hanging over it.