Fairly Odd Parents......

Albeit it is not an adult nor thought provoking show but i think that is why I like it so much. the show is about one very down and out boy name Timmy Turner. Who one day gets two god parents (Wandy and Cosmo) to grant his every wish. There are several rules that come along with having fairy god parents, but the number one rule is that you cannot let anyone that you have fairys. This rule was almost broken one episode when Timmy loaned a very sad girl his fairy god parents on her birthday.

The Queer Soluion and other things

Stupid blogger not letting me post all today, grr. Anyways The queer solution, personally i thought it was an attack against homesexuals at first. But after reading it I realized that it was actually showing how gay people are discrimnated against. I have always liked Will and Grace as well as friends, but once I thought back to how they viewed gender roles I realized that they were actually making fun of those roles. Like on Friends Ross's ex-wife i forget her name and her lesbian lover raise Ross's son together. Now while on the outside it may seem that NBC is showing lesbian couple in a positive light once you watch how the other cast members react and talk about the lesbian couple they are actually being made fun of on numerous occasions. This is to a lesser extent on Will and Grace I think. Will is a gay lawyer and while he may sometimes play the steroetypical gay man oftentimes you would never tell he is gay. Jack on the other hand is flamboyent, makes overly exaggerated gestures with his hands, and loves talking intimately about shopping. This show has some stereotypes not because Jack but Grace, she plays the traditional women gender role. She runs a interior design firm, is nervous, is waiting for "her perfect man" to come along and make her happy and she cannot solve problems on her own many times. Personally my view on gay people is that they are just like everyone else. They work, they date, they raise children. They are just like us in every way shape and form except for the fact that instead of being romantically involved with the opposite sex they prefer the same sex and thats it! A person's personally life should be theres only and no one elses. Again sorry for the late post but either blogger was down or my computer just was not working. Now I'm off to work on my paper for next week! Fun stuff.....

Heroes.....

Save the cheerleader save the world. That's the logo "heroes" has been going with for god knows how long. This episode the telepathic cop teams up with radioactive man. They also explained Claires father more and I was pretty surprised to find out he is actually a good guy. Made me sad when he died though. It is so cool that these people all know each other but they don't they are starting too however. Like when the telepathic cop and radioactive man take Claires family hostage her and telepathic cop are talking and Claire mentions Peter Petrelli. Peter saved Claires life and he was also arrested by the telepathic cop. All of these stories are intermengaling and through all this Peter can now not only absorb powers, but use them once they're absorbed. i love training episodes! But Peter screwed it up by leading Claire's dad right to his trainer. the invisible man. The invisible man also worked with Claire's dad at what is now called "the agency". Man I cannot wait for it all to unfold! I personally think Hiro's going to get the sword that let's Peter control his powers thereby allowing him to control it when he absorbs radioactive mans powers. I hope Claire and her biological dad get together thatd be heartwarming. Jessica needs to kick nikki's ass! im so sick of her playing the bad girl i want her to be good *tear*. If I had to choose a power I'd wanna be kids power. I'd love to get twelve hundred bucks from ATM without taking it out of my bank account.

Reading Analysis

This week's reading I thought was extremely poinent and oddly surreal, especially in regards to twentysomethings. I'm turning twenty tommorow, so I guess I'll be a twentysomething. It made me angry when I realized that the shows portraying our age group were under the genre of "reality t.v.". It made me sick to see that the things these depravities of human nature were the advertisements of the years from twenty to twenty nine. Black Bart was interesting. Just the whole idea of taking icons and making them your own. I don't know if they were making fun of Bart and what he stood for or if somehow the people of america that were wearing these shirt were embracing him. Suffice it to say that the event was still a great experiment in human and racial sociology.

BLAH

Man I had an epic sleep tonight. I mean EPIC. In the words of Tyler Durden "Babies don't sleep this good". Unfortunately now I have to do my rewrite, study for my computer science exam and start working on my NEXT essay. Awesome.

Scrubs

Man do I love Scrubs. The episode I was actually able to catch this weeek was the one where 5 people were dying and needed new organs. Just when all hope seeemed lost a person died from what was believed to be a cocain overdose. Unfortunetaly that person was someone J.D. knew and while a part of him knew it was not his fault she died, just that day he ignored her. Dr. Cox calmed J.D.'s nerves by basically saying it was not his fault. However the new patients' organs were infected with rabies. Only two cases are reported a year and J.D. tried to explain this to a very remose Dr. Cox, but just when Dr. Cox was about to feel better the last patient of his died. This sent him off the deepend and he left the hospital. I loved this episode and this show for the same reasons. They don't just give a one dimnesion comedy sketch, instead they try and teach a lesson in every episode which i think is rare but very welcome. I would definately recommend this to anyone who has the time to watch it.

Reading Analysis

Ah reality tv how I loathe it so. As much as I may hate the subject of reality tv and the irony of the title I did agree with many of the points brought up by the authors. Specifically " Voting Democracy Off The Island " I never paid attention to the underlying conservative themes reality shows portray. Such themes as family, marriage, and love. This all at first seems silly when one looks at the "Fear Factors" and "Average Joe" show's that pit people against each other in the hopes of love and fortune. I must say everytime I watch an ad for another reality tv show I can't help but think of the world that the movie "Idiocracy" portrays and how that world is more and more becoming our future. I weep for the future.