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Thursday, January 18, 2007

   distorted reality?
Yesterday I was watching "Top Chef" on Bravo. It was Wednesday and they usually have a marathon of all the episodes that have come out before the new episode is aired. Well I was re-watching the episodes and I realized how TV distorts the way some people are in order to make the show seem more interesting and juicy just to get higher ratings. I've always been aware that TV only shows you one side to the truth, the one that they want you to see. Watching the eps. again, I paid attention to the things that were being shown. Somehow they allow negative comments between chefs to air and when they apologize it's usually in a whisper or really fast. They don't emphasize the moment of apology all that much as they do when the argument is taking place. Maybe because the argumment event is bigger than the apology. But is this really entertainment? Watching the worst of every person? I think there's some terminology out there in the Psychology world that describes the "happy", "satisfying" feelings you get when you watch other people fight or suffer. The suffering can be just a bad moment when things don't go their own way or when they're actually being hurt physically. Anyway, TV wants you to see the bad drama to get you hooked, because it feels "great" to watch two people arguing. Why is it that people are always attracted to programs that are about violence than to programs about people helping each other?

So I remembered all this last nite during the Top Chef new episode. The chefs were done with their challenge and had gone back to their hotel rooms. One of the chefs got the idea of shaving her head and soon everybody started shaving their head. Then they snuck up on this one chef that since the beginning of the season has been the one that "everyone is supposed to hate". He was sleeping and this other chef named Cliff just started pinning him to the ground, holding him down so that they would shave his head. The alarmed chef (named Marcel, btw) was screaming and pissed off because he was being crushed under Cliff's weight and his arms where being held back. Of course he got mad and was released later on.

*I'll finish this up later, sorry!*
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