Oh Yeah…That’s Why I Don’t Watch TV.

Because there’s NOTHING good on.  Kings, on NBC is being cancelled.  How come when an original breath of fresh air, different, thought provoking show comes on…it dies?  LOST is really lucky to be on the air, and its really the only thing on Television that I’ve been able to consistantly enjoy.  Kings was a retake on the story of David from the Bible.  It was really cool regardless of you religion or lack there of.  Because it took this ancient series of events and placed them here in our time.  It was really novel how they handled the themes and issues set forth in such an old text and made it current for today’s audience.  Besides  there is a LOT of DRAMA in the Bible, and David has a lot going on in his life.  From being the youngest son of a shepard (in the show a war veteran/farmer), to being anointed as a king by your country’s most recognized religious leader/prophet, then serving at the right hand side of the current King Saul, to being a war hero, saving the king’s son, Jonathan, who you then begin a very interesting intimate relationship with, to running from King Saul b/c he wants to kill you, then finally…finally becoming king yourself.  Yeah…I’m sure there’s no action there…None.  So I’m sad.  A really cool show was shut down.  For what?  So NBC could make room for their new show: Get Me Out of Here I’m a Celebrity, starring Spencer and Heidi and other people I don’t care about?  Crap.  Kings isn’t the first tragic casualty of Television.  Pushing Daisy’s and The Black Donnelly’s were two really clever shows that were also ended.  So what does that mean?  Have Americans become too simple minded to endure entire seasons of entertainment that require them to think, or be witty, or have too much creativity.  Have we dumbed ourselves down so much by reality television, that they only shows we can stand for long periods of time are The Hills, I Love Money, and whatever the name of that stupid show to date Ray-J was?  I’m scared.  Now I’m wondering if people even realize that the names of the characters from LOST have philisophical meaning or if everyone watches the show thinking that its a reality TV version of Gilligan’s Island and that’s the only reason its still around.  Isn’t anyone else sick of Reality TV, Law & Cop shows, over the top teen dramas, or Sex & the City wannabes?  Can’t someone do anything original?  LOST only has one more season left!!!!  We’re running out of time!  Pretty soon all I’ll have left is Jeopardy, the Misadventures of FlapJack, and the CareerBuilder.com commercial from the SuperBowl!!!  Can we get Christopher and Jonathan Nolan to do something!?!  Hey, I’ll even do something, or my brother, or the kid that wrote and directed the 20 min short film I was in last semester…anyone!!!  Just not another, Bachelor, 90210, or One Tree Hill…

Speaking of The Bachelor/Bachelorette, PLEASE ABC!!!!  There are awesome single non-white people out there!!!!!  PLEASE FIND THEM!!!!  I’m soooo sick of feeling like “Only white people can find love on primetime TV”  Not that I ever watched the Bachelor…but that could be because its sooooo boring and racist!!!  Just saying, I mean geez Asian, or someone with tan I’ll take anything at this point.