Laguna Beach-Season Three

Why can I not not turn away from the delicious evil that is Laguna Beach?  Season 1 & 2 I secretly watched the episodes over and over without sharing with my husband or friends the atrocity I was committing.  Eventually, I admitted my crimes to a select few and repented vigorously afterwards with promises not to watch Season 3 or The Hills.  While I steered clear of The Hills my urges and DVR left me helpless against the desire to watch Season 3, an even worse trainwreck.   Luckily, I agreed to shut down the cable, the fantastic distraction from life it was and went over two years without.  I continue today, but I-tunes and Applebox let me indulge my every devilry.  Let me give the show a synopsis, and I will explain further.

Show Synopsis

Rich kids in Laguna Beach date each other and cheat on each and throw fantastic parties with pretty clothes.  They all fight and make up and fight and date each other more.  The End.

My Reflections

There is nothing to say.  The show is terrible!  Mind numbing, but for whatever reason I take some sick, demented, sadistic pleasure in watching these ignorant teenagers who know nothing about life completely exploit themselves on national television.  They are all rich, gorgeous, and privledged.  Yet, each suffer the personality defect of being mentally compatable with an Ant.  If sheep were ever reflected in the human race they would all have flocked to Laguna Beach.  It is the best and worst reality tv ever.  So I bought a few episodes of Season 3 this afternoon to avoid wallowing in my own depths of despair and therefore enjoy other’s who really have nothing to despair about other than superficial obnoxious topics that are easy to loose yourself in.

The Point

I know I’m not alone here.  If someone like my own cynical, soap box standing self have fallen prey to the addiction of this show, then no doubt others have suffered the same.  So who is it?  And where are you?  Perhaps we should create a support group. 

FarScape-Premiere Episode

Holy Wow Batman.  This show is like an Acid Trip via Inter-galatic exploring.  It’s Galaxy Quest on crack.  I’ve heard rumours of this show since Ben Browder joined SG-1 with Claudia Black.  In a nutshell it’s extremely eccentric.  This show is out of this world, literally and otherwise.

Show Synopsis

Ben Browder’s character, John Critchon creates a spaceship that accidentally sucks him through a wormhole into another galaxy.  He finds himself in the middle of a battle and is taken aboard a ship of people on the run from the mysterious “Peace Keepers”.  They have escaped their prison and are attemping to allude them in the galaxy, except this group of “people” are not people.  They are insane looking aliens that are literally so distracting to look at it’s difficult to listen to the campy dialouge.  From the premiere episode John Critchon has managed to kill the “Peace Keepers” leaders brother making an enemy of the greatest proportion while also enlisting a former member of the Peace Keepers infantry played by Claudia Black.  She has not joined the refugee’s officially, but it now an outcast from her own people.  The aliens have allowed each of them to stay on board, but so far it’s obvious they are all at odds with one another.

My Reflections

This show is outrageous.  I’m not sure yet whether it’s intentionally mocking other science fiction shows or is in fact taking itself seriously.  I’m not sure it could take itself seriously with the Alien costumes and shameless character’s.  Either way, I was hysterical watching it. I’ve known very little of this show other than it has a very strong cult gathering, specifically in the UK.  I can’t say it shows promise, but it warrents a viewing of the first episode to see if I can get a better feel of what it is about.

The Point

This is the most random and bizarre thing I’ve viewed in a long time.  Being an avid viewer of things in the Science Fiction genre I feel I owe the show at least one or two more viewings before I make a real decision about how I feel about it.  For now, I am intrigued, confused, and mildly entertained, but also excited for more.  I’ll give it a few more go’s and see what’s what.