Tim Goodman - Feed the Machine - 'Survivor' teams merge (re Thurs): Which was great news in the Cranky Pants household. We hate white people. They're so annoying. With no possibility of them being beaten and humiliated, it's 'Earl' and 'The Office' from here on out. Plus, Mrs. Cranky Pants is half Chinese and there weren't any Chinese people in the Asian tribe, which is just plain mystifiying. To seal the deal, they voted out Cecelia, the cute Latina. Why not just have someone from CBS come over to our house and change the channel for us?
On a semi-serious note, I'm not kidding when I say that I'm done with "Survivor."
Said it last year, but I had to tune in because television is our shared cultural experience and what if the race war thing really turned into something, well, interesting? Now I'm done.
was never int in survivor. i'm done w antm.
-Watching Shark reminds me of being a teen at home and sitting through shows like Cannon with my parents. Didn't hate it, but I own my own remote now.
-Had it with Grey's Anatomy (there's so much decent tv, I have to start jettisoning).
-Grey's Anatomy isn't much better, but I am hooked. I don't know why. Half the characters annoy me, yet I still watch. yeah I sort of watch though irritated by all the flippancy. is that what is is? does that name just about the all of what I find dumb? FLIPPANT. Meredith has serious feelings for these two guys, right? was really pretty broken up by Derek. and now she talks about it like it's frivolous. that's how people talk, I guess, about these things, that's a mode that's common, and it seems to be what people like so much about the show (the way they talk on the writers blog - both the writers and the commenters), and I think it's awful. there are exceptions...at least, Bailey, well at least this past episode what she said to Izzie was moving (maybe bcs the actress is really very good): I went soft and I wasn't there when you most needed teaching. Izzie says You couldnt have stopped me. Bailey says No -you- couldn't have stopped you. I could have.

-watched Jericho after posters here piqued my curiosity about how bad it was--I think it's a very interesting premise but not well written, acted, directed or scored (did I leave anything out?)
-On the plus side, I thought I’d try watching a show on my iPod (as opposed to my PSP), so I bought the Heroes pilot from iTunes. I quite liked it. Nice racial diversity, lots of potential for character growth, good drama and mystery; I will definitely tune in again next week. Watching TV on my iPod kinda blows though. Especially if there are subtitles!