Saturday, May 03, 2003

 

"Mister Personality" is the new reality TV show on FOX.
This one is a single young lady with 20 men, but the men all have masks so she won't see their face. This one promises to be really bizarre compared to the others I've seen from time to time. Haley, the lady, has to decide on which 10 of the 20 to keep after this 1st hour. At the halfway point, she says number 17 has gotten her attention. He says he planned it that way, that he get her attention and stand out from the rest. From the captions, he is a motivational speaker. Yuck! I have a thing against motivational speakers. They are all so wrapped up in themselves and they want you to be like them, and they want you to pay for this. Bad, bad, bad. Great, now they are going into astrology and horoscopes. Astrology is one thing I just don't have much faith in. This segment is just too creepy for me. The guys said some really wierd things, like one who said he had been on a motorcycle at 180 miles per hour and he wanted her to be there with him. Several went on about sexual prowess and how well they satisfied the women they have had in their lives. Yuck! Yuck! Yuck! These guys were so smooth and used such lines I was almost gagging on the rhetoric. These guys are so wrapped up in themselves! Do women really fall for this kind of line that these guys spoke? I certainly hope not! Women have to be smarter than this! Actually, I think women are much smarter than us men for the most part. Women get along with each other much better than men get along with other men. Maybe this is the competitive thing men have against them, maybe not. I just think from what I've heard from these men so far, if I was a woman, I would not want to have anything to do with any of them. Of course, this is mere conjecture on my part since I am cursed (or blessed) with the broken cromosome. So, she chooses 10 to leave and they have to unmask and she is told something about each as they remove the mask. Of course, they had the dramatic pause before each pulled off the mask. The marketing director who was rejected said the best parting words, the nicest things, of them all. One guy, Richard, the NFL mascot, spoke his piece about the astrology stuff beinbg a farce. He had to make a point and he did as he left. He seemed bitter about it. The motorcycle guy was rejected as well. He said it hurt. She thought he wasn't being himself. One guy put on a clown nose as he pulled off his mask. Thankfully, I recorded this and watched it later. I would have been bored out of my skull with the dramatic pauses they edited into almost every scene. At least, the dramatic pauses I was able to skip forward over so they didn't slow me down. I timed it out at only 30 minutes of my real time to watch the whole program. OK, after the unmasking, there was a little bit of the show left, where the masks were replaced with colored masks and each has gotten a first name instead of just a number. they show the viewers the face of each as each is introduced with his name. One thing bothered me about the editing, in that Monica Lewinsky, the hostess for the show, was shown time and time again during the dramatic pause for effect. I really hate the pause for effect to heighten the drama. This does NOT heighten the drama for me, but I suppose it does for someone or they would not put in as many as they do. The show would have been about 20% shorter without the shots of Monica Lewinsky every few seconds. In the previews, they show her in a darkened room where the men can remove the mask, but she has to wear a blindfold. What is it with these shows that they all have to show the touchy-feely get in bed things as a tease for the next show? This is just too bizarre for me. I don't think I will I will be a regular viewer of this reality TV show in the future.

Posted by: Rowlfe - at: 5/03/2003 06:53:00 PM

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