Oh, and professional wrestling is totally scripted. Sorry, [info]mike_smith. ;)
You're telling me? Somewhere around 2000, they started a reality show where they teach rookies how to fake it, and they kick people off for not faking it hard enough. Then they hire the losing contestants anyway, so the contest is rigged on top of that.
But to take it a step further, I don't think you need pure fiction to achieve escapism. I've been watching Mythbusters a lot lately, and I find it rather compelling to imagine what it'd be like to work in a place where you have seemingly unlimited resources, and you can weld anything to anything else. Sure, they edit footage to make the experiments go faster, but I'd still like to spend two weeks sorting Legos or chopping cars in half.
I've seen posts like these a lot over the years, where some author or critic or whatever makes some sweeping generalization about demographics, and they invariably take flak for it on the internet. I don't understand why people say stuff like this in the first place. Even if there were any truth to it, I'd still want to double-check before I say something as broad as "only girls like Mexico" or "dogs hate bananas". You're just begging someone to come along and knock that over.
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Date: 2011-04-20 09:40 pm (UTC)Oh, and professional wrestling is totally scripted. Sorry, [info]mike_smith. ;)
You're telling me? Somewhere around 2000, they started a reality show where they teach rookies how to fake it, and they kick people off for not faking it hard enough. Then they hire the losing contestants anyway, so the contest is rigged on top of that.
But to take it a step further, I don't think you need pure fiction to achieve escapism. I've been watching Mythbusters a lot lately, and I find it rather compelling to imagine what it'd be like to work in a place where you have seemingly unlimited resources, and you can weld anything to anything else. Sure, they edit footage to make the experiments go faster, but I'd still like to spend two weeks sorting Legos or chopping cars in half.
I've seen posts like these a lot over the years, where some author or critic or whatever makes some sweeping generalization about demographics, and they invariably take flak for it on the internet. I don't understand why people say stuff like this in the first place. Even if there were any truth to it, I'd still want to double-check before I say something as broad as "only girls like Mexico" or "dogs hate bananas". You're just begging someone to come along and knock that over.