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Feeling 'connected' to TV/Reality-TV characters/people?

  • 09-06-2008 5:41pm
    #1
    Pen1987
    Closed Accounts Posts: 870 ✭✭✭


    Me and my sister were watching the TV there the other day, if youve ever seen MTV one of the more decent shows on it is Laguna Beach, its a sort of pseudo-reality TV-sitcom series about a group of attractive late-teen upper class americans and their ever changing life situation.

    Anyway, she was explaining how she watching it alone a few days previously and one of the characters/people said some joke and that she started laughing and thinking "oh thats so something he would say, hes so funny"... and that one of the girls on it got back with her ex my sister found herself with a huge smile on her face and felt so happy for the girl! like she really felt a connection with these people! this a show that was filmed about four years ago on the west coast of america and has probably been repeated ten times since!

    Seen as its coming into Big Brother season, does anyone else find they actually connect with these randomers on telly that they have never met or interacted with? Or is my sister just a loon.


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  • #2
    Rb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,277 ✭✭✭✭Rb


    I used to watch Laguna Beach 'cause the girls were hot.

    Big Brother is the single worst thing on television, seriously.

    As for "feeling a connection" with those on screen, no, absolutely not.

    Well maybe, does wanting to kill them count?


  • #3
    ironictoaster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,147 ✭✭✭ironictoaster


    rb wrote: »
    i Used To Watch Laguna Beach 'cause The Girls Were Hot.

    +1


  • #4
    GirlInterrupted
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,440 ✭✭✭GirlInterrupted


    Pen1987 wrote: »
    Me and my sister were watching the TV there the other day, if youve ever seen MTV one of the more decent shows on it is Laguna Beach, its a sort of pseudo-reality TV-sitcom series about a group of attractive late-teen upper class americans and their ever changing life situation.

    Anyway, she was explaining how she watching it alone a few days previously and one of the characters/people said some joke and that she started laughing and thinking "oh thats so something he would say, hes so funny"... and that one of the girls on it got back with her ex my sister found herself with a huge smile on her face and felt so happy for the girl! like she really felt a connection with these people! this a show that was filmed about four years ago on the west coast of america and has probably been repeated ten times since!

    Seen as its coming into Big Brother season, does anyone else find they actually connect with these randomers on telly that they have never met or interacted with? Or is my sister just a loon.

    Your sisters a loon.:D


  • #5
    kowloon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,508 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    I remember when the M in MTV stood for Music and not Mongoloid.


  • #6
    Sherifu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,727 ✭✭✭✭Sherifu


    Ah, Big Brother. Fail in a house.


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  • #7
    Clare Bear
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,613 ✭✭✭✭Clare Bear


    There's a hot guy in Big Brother this year, I wouldn't mind getting connected with him :pac:


  • #8
    Abi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,058 ✭✭✭✭Abi


    Pen1987 wrote: »
    Seen as its coming into Big Brother season, does anyone else find they actually connect with these randomers on telly that they have never met or interacted with?
    They are on BB because they phail epically at life.
    Or is my sister just a loon.
    Yes. Go to her, she needs you during this difficult time.


  • #9
    _blank_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 41,926 ✭✭✭✭_blank_


    It's a really sad mindset.

    It happens with "fans" of English football too, by the way.


  • #10
    kowloon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,508 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    DesF wrote: »
    It's a really sad mindset.

    It happens with "fans" of English football too, by the way.

    Truth


  • #11
    Rb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,277 ✭✭✭✭Rb


    DesF wrote: »
    It's a really sad mindset.

    It happens with "fans" of English football too, by the way.
    And probably on a much, much, much larger scale than their reality tv counterparts.


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  • #12
    _blank_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 41,926 ✭✭✭✭_blank_


    Rb wrote: »
    And probably on a much, much, much larger scale than their reality tv counterparts.

    Take a look at the soccer forum for the proof, tbh.


  • #13
    Michellenman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,195 ✭✭✭✭Michellenman


    It's understandable if you ask me....


  • #14
    Rb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,277 ✭✭✭✭Rb


    DesF wrote: »
    Take a look at the soccer forum for the proof, tbh.
    Lol, very true.


  • #15
    Davidius
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,893 ✭✭✭Davidius


    Nah, I hate everybody on TV. :pac:

    I think the title 'Big Brother' is supposed to be ironic. Nineteen-Eighty-Four was actually good.

    Unlike the show Big Brother.

    That's the gag.


  • #16
    Pen1987
    Closed Accounts Posts: 870 ✭✭✭Pen1987


    Michellenman wrote: »
    It's understandable if you ask me....


    ^^^ my sister. True!

    Surprised she had time to log on here seen as she was chilling watching her mates on MTV most of the day...


  • #17
    Michellenman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,195 ✭✭✭✭Michellenman


    Shut up, i was studying!


  • #18
    Heisenberg.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,541 ✭✭✭Heisenberg.


    This post has been deleted.


  • #19
    Reku
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,766 ✭✭✭Reku


    kowloon wrote: »
    I remember when the M in MTV stood for Music and not Mongoloid.

    Really makes you feel old doesn't it... back when they were near constant music throughout the day, just a little bit of chat and adverts, only after 9 did they start sticking on stuff like Beavis and Butthead, Singled Out, The Lick, etc... *nostalgic*:o


  • #20
    Rb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,277 ✭✭✭✭Rb


    Mtv should have kept producing Top Buzzer. Probably the only decent programme on their network.


  • #21
    jester77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,264 ✭✭✭✭jester77


    Sounds like someone needs to get out and play with their real friends!!

    and wth has happened to MTV... it should be called STV for shitTV as the only music on it now is a fecking rabbit or frog chirping on the screen looking for you to text them... oh and Tila Tequila... hell yeah :pac:


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  • #22
    JangoFett
    Registered Users Posts: 854 ✭✭✭JangoFett


    Pen1987 wrote: »
    Me and my sister were watching the TV there the other day, if youve ever seen MTV one of the more decent shows on it is Laguna Beach, its a sort of pseudo-reality TV-sitcom series about a group of attractive late-teen upper class americans and their ever changing life situation.

    Anyway, she was explaining how she watching it alone a few days previously and one of the characters/people said some joke and that she started laughing and thinking "oh thats so something he would say, hes so funny"... and that one of the girls on it got back with her ex my sister found herself with a huge smile on her face and felt so happy for the girl! like she really felt a connection with these people! this a show that was filmed about four years ago on the west coast of america and has probably been repeated ten times since!

    Seen as its coming into Big Brother season, does anyone else find they actually connect with these randomers on telly that they have never met or interacted with? Or is my sister just a loon.

    She's mental. Have her put down


  • #23
    Michellenman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,195 ✭✭✭✭Michellenman


    It was one time people, I'd been having a particularly stressful day ok?!


  • #24
    Simply Red
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,291 ✭✭✭Simply Red


    jangofett wrote: »
    she's Mental. Have Her Put Down
    +1


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