I'll Never Watch Reality TV...Or So I Said
Hey there, minna-san, how are you? Good? I hope so...
I have been watching Australian The Biggest Loser lately, cheering for all of the contestants and watched most of them taking place in a 42km marathon over the last couple of nights (depending on the night, it usually goes for half an hour).
Now, in the past, I had sworn never to watch reality TV. I guess that only applies to shows like Big Brother. When it's something like Biggest Loser, Masterchef and sometimes Idol and So You Think You Can Dance, I don't mind. They're people who are doing something to change their lives for the better, not completely humiliate themselves and make the nation think badly of them.
I started watching Masterchef last year about the same time it had begun and found myself drawn in. I wanted to see these people put their cooking skills to the test, even matching against Australia's greatest in some stages of the competition. They're just ordinary everyday people with cooking as a passion and they want to make something of that, they want to share their food with everybody else in Australia...no, the world, but let's face it, it's difficult unless you're well-off financially or have great connections. Masterchef allows them to make steps towards that goal. Aside from the cookbook deal last year's winner received as part of her prize, the rest being enough money to start her own restaurant, other contestants had been granted the chance to work in some of the highest rating restaurants in this country! If that's not huge, I don't know what is...
I can't watch Biggest Loser from the very beginning...some I can but not during the times they are pushing themselves so hard that it makes them sick. I can't watch that...but later on through the weeks, I can watch. Yes, they're still struggling, but they're getting there. I think what drew me to this series is these people know that they need to do something to change their lives, and to do that, they need to change themselves. I'm speaking of morbidly obese people. It's easy to say that they should just go to the gym, change their diet, anything link that. But, these people really needed to go on Biggest Loser and be pushed harder than ever to do that if they wanted to live longer than they possibly would've. One of the contestants this year is the largest female in Biggest Loser history! She tended to get into the negative mindset all the time, and was often babied by her sister who also went onto the show. But, she learned that she can do anything now...after all, she lasted a long time before being eliminated and she completed the 42km marathon! Her mindset is definitely changing and she's changing with it. That's what draws me to it, seeing these people changing their lives for the better.
I swear, watching this while I was undertaking the confidence and assertiveness course was putting me into a positive mindset...If they can change themselves, so can I! Like some of the contestants, I feel I still have a long way to go, but I'm actually on the right track now!
With Idol and Dance, I don't watch all too often, but I do during the final weeks. I don't know why, but I don't want to follow those shows from the very start.
What about the rest of you? What are your views on reality TV and which shows actually make sense to be aired?
That's it for now, minna-san. Ja ne!
I have been watching Australian The Biggest Loser lately, cheering for all of the contestants and watched most of them taking place in a 42km marathon over the last couple of nights (depending on the night, it usually goes for half an hour).
Now, in the past, I had sworn never to watch reality TV. I guess that only applies to shows like Big Brother. When it's something like Biggest Loser, Masterchef and sometimes Idol and So You Think You Can Dance, I don't mind. They're people who are doing something to change their lives for the better, not completely humiliate themselves and make the nation think badly of them.
I started watching Masterchef last year about the same time it had begun and found myself drawn in. I wanted to see these people put their cooking skills to the test, even matching against Australia's greatest in some stages of the competition. They're just ordinary everyday people with cooking as a passion and they want to make something of that, they want to share their food with everybody else in Australia...no, the world, but let's face it, it's difficult unless you're well-off financially or have great connections. Masterchef allows them to make steps towards that goal. Aside from the cookbook deal last year's winner received as part of her prize, the rest being enough money to start her own restaurant, other contestants had been granted the chance to work in some of the highest rating restaurants in this country! If that's not huge, I don't know what is...
I can't watch Biggest Loser from the very beginning...some I can but not during the times they are pushing themselves so hard that it makes them sick. I can't watch that...but later on through the weeks, I can watch. Yes, they're still struggling, but they're getting there. I think what drew me to this series is these people know that they need to do something to change their lives, and to do that, they need to change themselves. I'm speaking of morbidly obese people. It's easy to say that they should just go to the gym, change their diet, anything link that. But, these people really needed to go on Biggest Loser and be pushed harder than ever to do that if they wanted to live longer than they possibly would've. One of the contestants this year is the largest female in Biggest Loser history! She tended to get into the negative mindset all the time, and was often babied by her sister who also went onto the show. But, she learned that she can do anything now...after all, she lasted a long time before being eliminated and she completed the 42km marathon! Her mindset is definitely changing and she's changing with it. That's what draws me to it, seeing these people changing their lives for the better.
I swear, watching this while I was undertaking the confidence and assertiveness course was putting me into a positive mindset...If they can change themselves, so can I! Like some of the contestants, I feel I still have a long way to go, but I'm actually on the right track now!
With Idol and Dance, I don't watch all too often, but I do during the final weeks. I don't know why, but I don't want to follow those shows from the very start.
What about the rest of you? What are your views on reality TV and which shows actually make sense to be aired?
That's it for now, minna-san. Ja ne!