tales from an ordinary world

2001-10-02

I've been watching too much TV. Well. "Watching" implies that I fully intended to watch it. "Seeing" is perhaps better, since it suggests a more unintentional nature. I was just in the same room (I don't have a PC in my bedroom, believe it or not). And so I've seen seeing random TV shows that I wouldn't normally watch. The new breed of TV shows now that we're getting bored with lawyers - the "school teacher" shows, like Boston Public and Teachers, plus a few sit-coms that I don't mind seeing anyway. But what struck me as being common to all these shows is how much of it's centered around people making mistakes, and the subsequent aftermath. Sometimes it drags on, sometimes it's out of the way in an instant (perhaps to reappear in a later show, as part of a bigger mistake). I don't know why this seemed significant to me just now.

I also wondered, what comes next ? The bad guys used to be evil foreigners (the bad guys in american films so often seem to have, if nothing else, english accents...). Then they set their sights evil corporations (sometimes evil foreign corporations). And so...? Next ? What's the next concept to be so relentlessly demonised ?

Is it significant that there's a song called television saved my life playing on the stereo now ? I hope not.