God or the Girl
Ξ April 10th, 2006 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Journal |
Wow. Reality is really reaching now. I caught an ad for a new series that’s coming up on A&E. It’s called “God or the Girl”. The goal will be to follow I think 4 guys around as they are deciding whether or not they should choose the girl (I presume they are all dating) or to become a Catholic priest.
Wow. I’m not sure what to think of this. We’ll lets be honest, it doesn’t really matter AT ALL what I think. Still though, is this really good TV? I’m not sure. How is it entertaining? I must say, I feel drawn to catch an episode to see what kind of spin the producers take on the show. But I’m not sure I’d be entertained or not. At this point, I’d just call it curiosity. But what could their take be, I wonder?
The up side is that there might actually be some people with integrity shown on TV. The reality TV phase has been filled with producers taking normal people - well, lets just say “people” and putting them in clearly abnormal circumstances. Like white rats in a maze, the rest of the world can watch the “action” unfold. When things get uninteresting, the men int he white lab coats will add a rat to the maze, or gather all the rats together and have them compete for the chance to stay in the maze. ??? It’s bizaar and anything but reality. The only thing that might be considered real is the people, and even that is a stretch because normal people do abnormal things when in abnormal situations. Some could even argue that the people who seek to be on TV are abnormal to begin with. So I think it’s safe to say that television networks have anything but a firm grip on what reality even is. To them, the only thing that’s real is the money. It’s no secret.
So what about “God or the Girl”? What part of this can be real? Maybe more than some of the competition shows because I think it’s supposed to be more of a documentary than a game as many of the other reality shows are. Are these guys just going to be paraded into everyone’s living room as being kind of… off or wierd? Will they make Christians look sickeningly pious and righteous? You know, too perfect. Will the girls who are not chosen understand?
I suppose these are all the questions the producers are wanting us to ask in order to get us to the watch the show. I could be interesting, or really quite shallow. I suppose there’s only one way to really find out.
Check it out on the A&E site - pretty non-informative and therefore useless page, by the way…