Are We Not Yet Satisfied?

     Over the last couple weeks of class we have been talking about the hunger games and relating readings, media and themes. I believe that these all bring up the idea of what is entertainment to us these days. Over decades it seems like it is taking more and more to entertain us. Where will we be in the future and will there be something to satisfy our crave for this thing we call entertainment?

     Entertainment to us is not what it once was. If I would ask an older person what their favorite scary movie was when they were a kid, I would probably find it really dumb or even funny. I believe that entertainment is in a way a form of evolution. By that I mean that like we see a scary movie and then we get used to seeing other ones like that. After awhile those kind of movies do not even phase us anymore and we become bored. Because of this we then seek find find a scarier movie to quench our thirst of entertainment. 

     The idea of entertainment being a form of evolution does not only apply to scary movies but other things as well like drama and comedy etc. This helps to answer the big question are we not yet entertained? I believe for the time being we are entertained but only for a short while. Eventually we will need to seek for more and more until we get satisfied. Who knows if we will always be able to quench our thirst for this thing we call entertainment or where this will take us in the future.

Who's Shore?

  Over the last week in class we have talked about reality television as it connected with our readings of the lottery, hunger games and Gablers article. I agree with Gabler and believe that reality television has resulted in a culture of voyeurs. I think that we play a very important part as the viewers and fans in the reality of these shows. This causes us to influence the “games” be played themselves in a way. As Gabler says, “what makes reality so darn entertaining?”

  The Jersey Shore is a highly popular reality television show that is usually always being talked about around me. Personally I do not like to watch shows like that but I still hear about it all the time. I did however watch an episode (season 4 episode 9) for this post so I will elaborate on what happened. Basically, there are eight main stars of the show that all have these nicknames that the are called by. The people are The Situation, Jwoww, Snooki, Pauly D, Ronnie, Sammi, Vinny and Deena. This episode takes place in Italy and starts out after a night partying at a club. Snooki gets mad at Jwoww for not comforting her because of a fight they had the night before. After that, some drama takes place when Snooki and her boyfriend get in a fight because he leaves. After that they talk on the phone and “take a break”. Later, they all decide to turn the house into a night club and party in the house. After that The Situation tries to hit on Snooki, but does not work because she feels like none of the guys “have her back”. The show ends with Snooki getting in bed with Vinny and Deena failing at getting in bed with Pauly D. 

  Personally, I do not like watching these types of shows because I feel that all the stars are always just being fake. These stars just like to put on a show for the audience to feed into. In a way we influence these stars to act certain ways and do certain things because they know what their audience (us) wants to see. Although, I can see how a majority of people find these types of shows alluring because if you put the whole “being fake” thing aside, these shows could be kind of interesting to watch. Also, people like these shows because once a week the show is live, so they know it is not edited like the rest of the television they see. I believe that our roles as the viewers and fans play a huge part in these types of shows. I think that our roles as the viewers and fans are to buy into everything the people on these shows do, wear and say. I think if we did not watch these shows and were not interested in them, they would not even exist.