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Posted Nov 28th 2007 11:44PM by Jackie Schnoop
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, OpEd, Episode Reviews
(S01E11) I feel manipulated. I feel used. I feel a pawn to a lesson session. I feel all I learned in childhood about doing the right thing is so much better than doing the fun thing was snatched from behind my wall of memories and plopped down in tonight's episode of
Kid Nation.
Why must fun always have consequences? Or, at least choosing fun over a more serious option? It doesn't always play that way in adulthood. Sometimes you can have fun without regret. Yeah, seriously.
But I'll never be a Dance Master, no matter how much fun it might be. There is something called reality which comes to mind.
Continue reading Kid Nation: I Just Like the Recess Part
Posted Nov 14th 2007 10:58PM by Jackie Schnoop
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, OpEd, Episode Reviews
(S01E09) Have children grown more apologetic since my days as a child? The kids of
Kid Nation are often as cruel to each other as I recall but then they go and apologize. What's up with that?
Well, they don't always apologize. Feelings get hurt; tears get shed. Maybe it's cruel, but the kids will eventually find out being an adult isn't all it's cracked up to be at all times, either. I think I've seen adults apologize a lot less often than the kids on the show. Perhaps they have some sort of super-strain of kids there -- intelligent and mature beyond their years.
Some of them, anyway. And some of the solid ones are starting to crack a bit.
Continue reading Kid Nation: Not Even Close to Fair
Posted Oct 31st 2007 10:45PM by Jackie Schnoop
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, OpEd, Episode Reviews
(S01E07) I'm starting to wonder if we're going to see each and every kid on
Kid Nation before the end of the season. Every week, it seems the focus is on the core group we've seen all along -- the council leaders, Greg, Jared, Sophia, and some others. But then a new kid or two is thrown into the spotlight.
Whenever that spotlight shines on a new face in the crowd, it's been obvious that the new face will either be in the midst of controversy or will win the gold star. Predictable? Sure is, but with the size of the cast, I don't see any better way to do it, either. I enjoy "meeting" the kids as the season goes on.
Continue reading Kid Nation: The Root of All Evil
Posted Jan 19th 2006 9:51AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, NBC, Talent, Lost
Dwight Schrute, the Assistant to the Regional Manager on
The Office, has a theory about
Lost.
He writes about it on his
blog, which is
updated weekly over at NBC's website. Dwight has a couple of theories about who The Others are, the true motives of
Oceanic Airlines, the polar bears and the connection Dr. Marvin Candle has to one of the castaways. He also
pontificates a bit about which characters could kick other's asses. Dwight's theories on
Lost are simplistic
and show that Dwight does not have any imagination.
Rainn Wilson, who plays Dwight, really has that
character nailed down. Even in his blog.
[Thanks,
Josh B.!]
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