Fucking Law and Order. Seriously...it's like crack for middle class America (which of course I'll group myself with for convenience of thought process). We were rained out today, so I got to chill in my lovely room after arriving in Missouri...so what do I do?
Sit down, unpack and flip on the television. Promptly fall asleep during some dry, but interesting, History special on the frigate. That's pretty middle class, right? Falling asleep while watching a television show about war? When I wake up, ready to eat dinner or whatever I flip around and lo and behold L&O is on. That was around 5.
It's still on, still in the background as we "speak" on at least two channels. Have I turned it off? No. I've left to go to the store...stuff like that, but 1) there really isn't much good on (I have no desire to watch anyone dissecting the NCAA seeding) and 2) it's "good enough" to keep me from seriously looking.
The second is the crux...it's good enough. Pretty decent formula cop show (especially those ripped from the headlines episodes, they're a hoot). There's nothing especially amazing about the writing, there's a lot of stereotyping (and clever ... and by clever I mean blatent ... reversals of "ooooh look what you get for believing stereotypes"), plenty of deus ex machina, and the like. But hey, the good guys get the bad guys, a mystery is solved by the gang, and you feel good about yourself (and of course humanity, America (fuck yeah!), and the judicial system). I think that's what we normies want, good to be good...bad to be punished...and apple pie for dessert with some ice cream on the top. Wait scratch the ice cream, that's un-American...a la mode my ass you frog bastards! I'm currently watching the classic L&O, but this really encompasses them all, SVU and CI too. They have different rankings based on personal preferences, and quirks but I'll include them all in this generalization, good enough TV. It can be the new line-up blockbuster. Next on TNT; Good Enough T.V.
Man, I need to find more productive hobbies than injecting televised crack into my eyeballs.
About Me
- Digging Fool
- Just your typical twenty something kid. I'm an archaeologist-in-training (wondering at what point I'm allowed to call myself an archaeologist proper)... I spend a good amount of time wandering the Midwest meandering from project to project and projects to school. I live in hotels, apartments, and even a veterans hospital once. There isn't much to say really, I'm a pretty normal nerdy kid not quite ready to grow up and sit behind a desk. If I have my say, I'll never have to. Currently the wandering is being kept more or less in check (for at least 2/3 of the year) by that whole "pursuing a graduate degree" thing. Apparently they want a series of letters after your name before they'll let you run around digging wherever you want. So I'm in Milwaukee doing that (getting letters... not running around digging wily nily).
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