MTV Real World

[OneFinger]

Landon finally admitted tonight that he is straight. Guess I can quit wondering if there was a 3rd gay in the group.;-)

 

I really enjoyed seeing the tables turned on the straight people when all the gays showed up at the house. Now they know what it feels like to be a stranger in your own house.

 

The previews for next weeks show looks really interesting. Appears that one of them will end up in handcuffs and MJ loses his temper.

[woodlawn]

>Who cares what woodlawn thinks about this subject or any

>other? His whole game is to get you to reply to one his

>postings so he can reply back and get an argument going.

 

In case no one ever explained it to you, the whole "game" of participating in a message board consists of posting your opinions and discussing them with other people who want to discuss them. You seem not to understand that that is what we are all doing here. The only problem is that some posters lack the emotional maturity to express disagreement with what another writes without also saying "Because I don't agree with what you say that means there is something wrong with you." You and your pal Candy both seem to have that problem. Good luck with it.

[JamesK840]

Having seen this thread I stopped and watched a couple episodes back to back last night. Personally, I'm not attracted to either of the gay guys and MJ is too vacant looking. Landon's pretty though.

 

I was a little surprised by the boyfriend sleepover/*shower*/etc and apparent curiosity from the "straight" guys. And that boyfriend is damn cute.

 

But it's pretty mindless, and I don't need to see any more of the cunt trying to trick uninterested MJ into sleeping with her, including by telling the house he already did, or the catfights with the other one.

 

So I don't plan to watch any more, but any screengrabs/pics of Landon (and!/) or the boyfriend that find their way into the MC would be worth perusing... :9

[Candyman]

RE: MTV unReal World

 

No one is arguing with anyone. Your the only person that seems to have a chip on their shoulder. I really don't care what you watch or don't. My point is sometimes after a very stressfull day a little mindless entertainment helps. Some people might even call this site mindless :+

[woodlawn]

RE: MTV unReal World

 

>No one is arguing with anyone. Your the only person that

>seems to have a chip on their shoulder.

 

To tell you the truth, I do have a chip on my shoulder when it comes to this show because I think it is quite deceptive. For one thing, the producers somehow exclude or edit out any conversation about anything that smacks of real life. During the first season there were such things as Kevin's account of being pulled over by the cops for "driving while black," Norman's account of how he used to get beat up at school for being gay and other instances in which the show was exactly what it purports to be -- a diverse group of people learning about each other and gaining new perspectives. Now all of that is gone and what you are left with is a bunch of kids who seem to talk endlessly about nothing. The first episode of this season consisted of nothing much but a couple of the kids trying to come up with rationalizations for breaking up with their significant others so that they could fuck around in Philly without feeling guilty.

 

For another thing, whenever I see a trailer for the next episode it is presented in such a way as to make it seem as though something terrible happened, but when the actual episode is aired it always turns out to be nothing. It's too bad that the producers took a program that had real potential and made it into crap.

 

Your original post suggested that what you care about is ogling the bodies of the male cast members. But the producers will only let you see so much and no more, so if that's the sort of thing you want you may as well forget Real World and just watch porn.

[Guest rohale]

It's funny in a way. The Real World has been television for almost thirteen years now. How times have changed throughout the show's history. I stopped watching Real World after the season in Vegas a few years ago. Recently, I tried watching the current season. I dont find it appealing anymore. For me the show lost it's midas touch years ago.

 

Quite recently a really good friend managed to pull out some old VHS tapes of the show in its infancy. We were watching the tapes a few weeks ago. It's so easy to forget how good the show was in the early stages of its development. I used to be an avid watcher of MTV and Real World years and years ago. What I found remarkable the most was, if one were to trace back to the very beginning. The show didn't sell sex. What the show did sell was taking average young people and following them and see how they behaved in every day situations. Particularily the work place was the focus and how college students were learning to adapt to the way of the corporate world. Back then, New York was the primary focus. Now we all know that sex sells, the season in Vegas no doubt proved that to a point of no end, but I found the early seasons to be more of interest to me. There was no back stabbing, it was just a bunch of young people learning about one another and they were a support group for eachother. Now times have changed, the show itself has to reflect the times we live in. Indeed this current season does just that.

 

Does anyone remember a time when MTV was nothing more than the words the network symbolised. Music Television twenty four hours a day. It was just non-stop music videos in the 1980's. Amazingly over the years MTV couldn't keep a balance of reality shows and music videos. Nowadays it's hard to find music videos on the network. Even VH1 is in the same boiling pot. As Sting and Dire Straits once sang " Money for nothing, I want my MTV ". It's amazing how much times have changed in the networks twenty three year history. I just wish for once that MTV would fulfill it's promise a few years ago with the launch of MTV2 and remind the loyal tv viewer that the very first video that the network aired was titled " Music Video Killed The Radio ". In a slight twist in irony, they can now claim it was drama that killed the video airplay.

 

On Monday morning I was listening to a DJ by the name of Joe Benson and he gave a nice tribute to his old buddy the late great JJ Jackson, one of the original VJ's on MTV. He was truly one of the best.

 

I'm now officially off the high horse and now return you the ever so intrigue of the two guys and the hanky panky that they are providing for sex crazed kittens of MTV The Real World.

 

Rohale

[+ BenjaminNicholas]

I really think the show is going to take a hit since the death of producer Mary-Ellis Bunim...

 

She was the creative juice behind most of the reality shows at MTV. Jonathan Ellis is a talented guy (and gay as well), but was never the strength in that business relationship.

 

Rohale is quite correct in saying the earlier seasons were more eye-opening, more interesting and just a better quality of show. Now it seems that a little skin and some question on sexual orientation will draw in just enough of a Nielson rating to keep the show on the air. It's a little sad and much like Rohale, i haven't watched much of the show since RW Seattle.

 

Besides, i always ended up getting angry at the television and yelling at it: 'They MUST be looking for the most idiotic young people on the planet!' I'm embarassed for them while watching.

 

When i was growing up, i never thought that going onto national television and making an ass of myself as a goal. Nowadays, there is this huge subculture of teenagers whose ultimate goal is to one day become castmembers of MTV's RealWorld.

 

*shrugs*

 

Is it wrong of me to be frightened by my own generation?

 

 

 

Warmest Always,

 

 

 

Benjamin Nicholas

[+ Charlie]

When I first encountered MTV in the 80s, I was already an old fogey, but I immediately recognized that it was doing something new and exciting. When the Iron Curtain fell, I went to live in a small town in eastern Europe as a volunteer to help with the transition to western-style democracy. The main restaurant in town had a small TV, and they kept it tuned to MTV all day. I found it wonderfully refreshing after dealing with the grim reality of the industrial decay around me. Today I would probably urge them to change the channel.

[Spida]

I personally don't think MJ is that good looking great body though! The others are very good looking though especially Landon! and so is Willie!!