Sunday, April 29, 2007

New road rules

I went home on Friday afternoon and had the opportunity to watch the new road rules they have on MTV right now. It is ridiculous. I must have missed the first two hour episode dedicated to explaining the process they use now to trade out members of the road rules team so I had no idea what was going on. Now there are two teams.. one of viewers from home or something and then people that used to be on the show... and they blog and viewers at home can vote them into fighting with each other to stay on the RV. Anyway it seems to be a failed attempt at trying to engage the viewer so much that they, as a whole, seem to have control of what they are watching. I don't like that and don't find it entertaining. I don't want to vote for people. I don't care what they have to blog about. I don't need to know how other viewers feel about the people on road rule's interactions. There seems to be a large strain to use every form of media possible so that everyone can find a way to be involved in this show. You can probably watch extra footage on your ipod. I remember the old road rules when no one got voted off or put into challenges.. they just rode around in an RV and had to cross suspension bridges made of rope occasionally to earn money or jet skis. They didn't have the privilege of a sidekick. They were real. Really real.

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