Things That Make Me Go “Huh?”
Disclaimer: I don’t watch ‘reality’ TV as a rule so my appraisal has little real value. YMMV
Stars Earn Stripes
NBC has announced a new reality show called Stars Earn Stripes, where “nine celebrities from music, sports and Hollywood will be paired with trainers at a top-notch, secret training facility” and “will face weekly challenges such as hostage-rescue exercises or placing a laser target atop a mountain.”
It’s likely I won’t recognize most of these ‘stars’, but the idea is intriguing.
So many scenarios that would be fun to watch come to mind: MREs or catering? Self applied Camo make-up or make-up artists? Tailored uniforms or off the shelf? Tough NCOs or fitness coaches?
Category: Geezer Alert!
They probably don’t want us to write the scenarios. Or make any suggestions of which “stars” should be put through the wringer…errr simulated training.
(Hanoi Jane in the outfield catching cannon balls comes to mind.)
I’m sure the real food and appropriate attendants for creature comforts will be just off screen.
Who hasn’t had a hit in 2 years?
And has cleavage?
Eh, could be fun…
Consequences for failure–not making it to the final episode, or not making it off the mountain alive?
This is just their fantasy deployment in their fantasy world.
What they need to do is bring back the short lived “Combat Missions.”
I remember a reality show from a few years ago that put a bunch of people thought the boot camp experience. The final contest was a joke because it was rigged to favor the female contestant. The male beat the female outright in ten out of ten events, yet still lost. The last event was a long run. But they chose the winner based on the amount of improvement from the first run at the beginning of the series. The guy was in good shape and did not improve much. But, the female was a total slug the first time and improved drastically for the final run and gained enough points to make up for losing the other nine events.
Yawn.
The end result will be nothing at all like “reality.”
A group of D-listers standing around whining and bitching about their tasks.
Let me see, the military trainers will be Eric Haney, that “SF” guy that was on the Spike Deadliest Warrior show, any other guesses?
Let’s see: Todd Bridges needs work, right?
It’ll be a joke. The “Celebrities” will be pampered in trailers with plenty of catering, and they’ll have flawless skin and perfect hair and makeup the whole time, even while they’re sweating through a “challenge.”
Just stay out of our realm, Hollywood. You just don’t belong there. Only rarely do you muster enough common sense to put together a good script and production team that will actually HIRE veterans and active military to be on-set subject matter experts and advisors and editors. Look at Blackhawk Down and We Were Soldiers and then compare those two masterpieces to the abysmal silver screen piles of shit like Home of the Brave and The Hurt Locker.
I can’t stand those f–ing shows. I thought if “Survivor” really wanted to prove something, have them go to Baghdad and dash across the city everyday, 6 days a week.
Agreed Roller Dude, even though I’ve not been to either country. Even cooler would be for the actors to really go through basic, AIT & then jump school, successfully…
@11: That would imply that actors would have an ounce of testosterone and an infinistesimal gram of “heart” needed to get through such adversity.
They’d never make it.
Naw. You wouldn’t really want to waste the adult supervision necessary to have them in actual military classes, would you?
Tman @ 8
Probably. Eric Haney jumped the shark a long time ago. I attended a conference where Eric Haney INSISTED that no member of Delta had EVER engaged in targeted asassination. I then watched “The Unit” and saw that just about every episode.
Also, that douche went on the Craig Ferguson show and insisted that Operation Iraqi Freedom was illegal and that soldiers should make a decision on whether to follow the illegal order to deploy.
Nice huh?
Susan I think Haney is persona non grata in the community.
I think Bear Grylls is looking for a job.
Come to think of it maybe Gunny Ermey is up for it.