Kevin M. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If the show went to America's deep south, to a replica of a small > plantation, and contestants had to grab their next clue from a bunch > of African-American slaves picking cotton, would you all point to that > as a brief taste of American culture?
No slaves were met on their foray into Alabama but while they spent one night at the US Space and Rocket Center, their daylight hours were spent climbing a giant rusty office chair and racing go-carts around a NASCAR track. Then it was off to Mississippi to explore a mobile home dealership! What a fine, in-depth look at the culture of the New South. Cop shows would be boring if most episodes were about paperwork, routine calls, and dull training seminars. Medical dramas about most of the doctors I've encountered would be cancelled by the second commercial break.* I've been to New Zealand and know what people don't travel from place to place by Zorb. I live in Dallas and not everything we do involves a frantic cab ride through traffic from the airport to a deserted park. I just accept that a show like "The Amazing Race" is only going to give me a trivial highlights of the differences between that place and culture and my own. *My eye doctor's murder by his wife and her identical twin sister was made into a USA Network movie but he was the exception to the rule, not a refutation of it. -- Ed Dravecky III http://www.fencon.org/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Like TV only smarter. You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
