Since when has any "reality TV" been real?
-James Stuber _____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Pritts Sent: Sunday, February 05, 2006 11:36 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [Speed cubing group] (off-topic) BATG = rigged? First let me say that i love the show, and although I have *never* really watched TV before, I have now seen every episode of this. However.. Perhaps other people have noticed some of the same things, maybe everyone will disagree with me... I don't know. But, here are a few of my observations which suggest (to me) that the show is (to some degree) scripted/rigged/NOT-real. 1) The "Asides" with the camera -- several times per episode, there will be a clip of one of the contestants alone in a room just talking to the camera. In these sessions, they have said things about how they don't like their partner, or they hate another contestant, etc. If the show were for real, nobody would say anything about another person that they didn't want the other person to know, beacuse the other person would find out about it. The only way to get around this is if everyone was completely isolated from the outside world, which obviously isn't true since, for example, Tyson was able to respond to his email, and (if i remember correctly) attend the Caltech cubing tournament which was during the BATG season. 2) Too dumb -- perhaps I have a skewed perspective, but I don't think that, for example, ANYBODY in the US doesn't know who John Kerry is. Maybe I'm completely wrong here, but I found that to be entirely too unrealistic. The same goes for plenty of other questions, etc. Remember that some of the girls have attended college. Perhaps it's not the ivy league, but anyone college student would know way more than some of those girls are portrayed as knowing. The same goes for some of the things the guys do. Example: If trying to impress females with your decorating abilities, would anyone actually write "in blood" on the wall? ehh not likely. 3) Chris incident -- kinda the same as my first reason, but if the show was for real, would anyone actually say "No I don't like my beauty". Furthremore, he lies about it.. he tells her he was trying to flatter the other girl.. BUT, then he tells the camera in private that he just "forgot about the hidden camera" or whatever. If the show was for real, I don't think he would have said what he said, and I don't think he would have gone out and admitted to lying about it to Tristin. 4) Camerawork/timing etc -- All of the timing etc is perfect, strange for a reality show. Example: on the first episode (or the second one, whcihever it was) when they did the competition to "get to change around any 2 teams"... They had everyone on the stairs as Chris was going to announce who they had chosen. "The first team that we picked... was us" <Commercial break right away>. Every commercial break is preceded by a dramatic moment, and there are the same number of dramatic moments in each episode, and they occur in regular increments. Perhaps this is stupid, beacuse I suppose they obviously film a lot more than actually gets onto the show, and consequently perfect timing etc could be achieved by good editing, but to me it still seems like everyhting works out too perfectly in this respect. 5) Nobody would ever be as big an asshole as Chris was. Seriously. It makes the show more exciting when there's a badguy.. how would the people who screened the show know that he would end up being such a loser? These are just a few of the things I noticed. I'm sure when I watch the show this week I'll be reminded of other things. I'm sure you will too, if you look for them. Anyways, perhaps I'm wrong, but it just seems to me that it's not real. Or, maybe i'm right and i'm the last person to know this? Sorry for rambling on for so long.. lol David __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! 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