Rant on TV

I spent a decent amount of time yesterday watching TV.  Nowadays, this is not a normal occurrence since I could view most of those content on the web with fewer commercials.  Plus, I think that a fair amount of the shows aren't worth my time.  The variety and creativity of the materials being broadcasted, in my opinion, has really gone downhill over the years.  There are so many rip-off shows, reality shows, and shows that are just being milked for all it's worth that it becomes mind-numbing painful to watch them all.

I think with only a couple of keywords I can cover a lot of the shows currently on TV. (Now this is for local channels, not cable since I don't have that anymore.  Although the last time I had cable, a lot of time was just spent flipping through the channels with nothing to watch.)  Those keywords would be: doctor, cops, vampire, court, reality (the one that follows a person or a group of people like The Real World or Jersey Shore).  This list is by no means complete but these are the things that came to mind.  It's still early in th morning so I'm not totally wake as well.

Now of the list above, the two that annoys me the most are the last two listed.  How many court TV shows do we really need?  To name a few: People's Court, Judge Judy, Judge Mathis, Judge Joe Brown, Judge Hatchett, Moral Court, Divorce Court, Texas Justice, Judge Wapner's Animal Court, Judge Mills Lane, Judge Maria Lopez.  OMG!!!  I must admit there might be an interesting case every now and then but seriously do we need that many show over the law system.  Law is not one of those topic that is entertaining in the least unless you are a lawyer or something of that sort in which case that might tickle your fancy.  Other than that, I don't think a normal person would want to sit through a court case or to watch it on TV.

I'm not even going to go into reality shows.  This post is getting long enough.  Last thing I want to end on is MTV should change their name since they don't show that many music videos anymore!!!

Word of the Day

Numinous (adjective) - supernatural, mysterious, filled with a sense of the presence of divinity or appealing to the higher emotions or to the aesthetic sense

As I sat there in the dimly lit room watching the flickering of the candlelight, I was overcome by a numinous feeling.