Dave2112
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Yes folks, it's time once again to honor TV's best and brightest...
...or at least it's highest earning.
Is anyone even watching Friends or Frasier anymore? And is Sex and the City really that funny, or will you be considered "out of touch" if you dis this "groundbreaking" show?
Come on people, enough already.
There has got to be more out there than the same old shows every year. Have we finally innundated television with enough episodes of "Fart Factor", "Celebrity Shoe Sale" and "30 Seconds to Stupidity" that there's nothing left to vote for? The only thing Friends has managed to do during its painfully long run is set the tone for every other sitcom of the last decade: Take two attractive young people, create sexual tension and force people to watch for two whole seasons before you bring them together, then tear them apart so you can milk three more seasons out of getting them back together.
Brilliant.
The Emmys have gone the way of the Oscars, being more in-house politically motivated than based on talent. We simply must honor the deep-rooted acting ability of Jennifer Aniston, lest we lose advertising dollars from the teenagers who buy all that Pepsi. Watch Jennifer in any of her films and tell me how wonderful an actress she is. Or is it just based on looks these days?
In a mirror-image of the Academy Awards, it seems that low-rated shows have to be given a nod to appease the film actors that crossed over to make them or the producers that are helping payroll Hollywood. For an Oscar, you have to make sure to throw Croatian subtitles and sepia tones into a film to achieve "success", as raking in $200 million dollars is no measure of a film's success to the masses who actually buy tickets. Don't even think about throwing in any action scenes or special effects...
With TV, your best bet is failure...or CBS. Hollywood has a need to justify the Tiffany Network's continued existence. Create a whiny show about yet another female lead coming back to her hometown to "try again", and you've got an Emmy, even if only 12 people have seen it.
The only major acting nomination that I fully support is Keifer Sutherland for the outstanding series "24". I can only imagine the discipline it took to film the story of a single day over the course of a few months and keep it all in check. By the seventh episode, your character is exhausted, dirty and getting ugly. It doesn't matter that you're fresh from your trailer, you gotta play it, you know? I hope that the voting commitee will get it right at least once here and bestow a much-deserved award on the actor and the groundbreaking program. Of course, being up against the astounding dramatic talents of the likes of Matt LeBlanc or the already-decided winner "West Wing" is sure to put a damper on things.
Perhaps the only CBS show deserving of a nod here is "CSI", a show that I have to admit not wanting to watch in the beginning because it was on CBS. Someone got me into it, and I'm glad for that. Police dramas are becoming paper cut-outs of each other of late, and this one's rather interesting.
"Law and Order" also deserves its nomination, having remained fresh even after all these years. The fact that the good guys don't always win sets it apart in this day and age of law above all else. Everything from frivolous action to Constitution-challenging motions are set forth, all with a strong basis in fact, as are many of the episodes...the first (and still best) show to use the "Ripped from Today's Headlines" tag.
So as for me, I'll probably skip this year's "honors", as I really don't need to stay up until 1 am to give Jennifer another meaningless trophy and another lucrative Cover Girl endorsement.
...or at least it's highest earning.
Is anyone even watching Friends or Frasier anymore? And is Sex and the City really that funny, or will you be considered "out of touch" if you dis this "groundbreaking" show?
Come on people, enough already.
There has got to be more out there than the same old shows every year. Have we finally innundated television with enough episodes of "Fart Factor", "Celebrity Shoe Sale" and "30 Seconds to Stupidity" that there's nothing left to vote for? The only thing Friends has managed to do during its painfully long run is set the tone for every other sitcom of the last decade: Take two attractive young people, create sexual tension and force people to watch for two whole seasons before you bring them together, then tear them apart so you can milk three more seasons out of getting them back together.
Brilliant.
The Emmys have gone the way of the Oscars, being more in-house politically motivated than based on talent. We simply must honor the deep-rooted acting ability of Jennifer Aniston, lest we lose advertising dollars from the teenagers who buy all that Pepsi. Watch Jennifer in any of her films and tell me how wonderful an actress she is. Or is it just based on looks these days?
In a mirror-image of the Academy Awards, it seems that low-rated shows have to be given a nod to appease the film actors that crossed over to make them or the producers that are helping payroll Hollywood. For an Oscar, you have to make sure to throw Croatian subtitles and sepia tones into a film to achieve "success", as raking in $200 million dollars is no measure of a film's success to the masses who actually buy tickets. Don't even think about throwing in any action scenes or special effects...
With TV, your best bet is failure...or CBS. Hollywood has a need to justify the Tiffany Network's continued existence. Create a whiny show about yet another female lead coming back to her hometown to "try again", and you've got an Emmy, even if only 12 people have seen it.
The only major acting nomination that I fully support is Keifer Sutherland for the outstanding series "24". I can only imagine the discipline it took to film the story of a single day over the course of a few months and keep it all in check. By the seventh episode, your character is exhausted, dirty and getting ugly. It doesn't matter that you're fresh from your trailer, you gotta play it, you know? I hope that the voting commitee will get it right at least once here and bestow a much-deserved award on the actor and the groundbreaking program. Of course, being up against the astounding dramatic talents of the likes of Matt LeBlanc or the already-decided winner "West Wing" is sure to put a damper on things.
Perhaps the only CBS show deserving of a nod here is "CSI", a show that I have to admit not wanting to watch in the beginning because it was on CBS. Someone got me into it, and I'm glad for that. Police dramas are becoming paper cut-outs of each other of late, and this one's rather interesting.
"Law and Order" also deserves its nomination, having remained fresh even after all these years. The fact that the good guys don't always win sets it apart in this day and age of law above all else. Everything from frivolous action to Constitution-challenging motions are set forth, all with a strong basis in fact, as are many of the episodes...the first (and still best) show to use the "Ripped from Today's Headlines" tag.
So as for me, I'll probably skip this year's "honors", as I really don't need to stay up until 1 am to give Jennifer another meaningless trophy and another lucrative Cover Girl endorsement.
