JPTV: What I'm Watching Tonight
I'll be watching, like many of the rest of you, it seems, to see whether Pushing Daisies can live up to its pilot, and if the set designers have any new goodies to unveil from that big yard sale that Tim Burton apparently had. But I must also confess--actually, I already have--that I have not yet given up on Kid Nation.
To me, it's not about the drama of having kids survive in a hardscrabble environment; it's about the inherent drama of plopping a camera down in the middle of the world's most elaborate gifted-and-talented class. In which we ask, which is better training for life: being homeschooled or competing in beauty pageants? And what's to stop the kids from rejecting the capitalist merchant-worker reward system and establishing a socialist worker's collective? (For which task I nominate the Fidel Castro fan.) Am I all alone here?
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You're not alone! I'll be watching Kid Nation too (and recording Pushing Daisies). What can I say? I'm fascinated by KN and curious about what drama will happen this week.
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Have you noticed that the "exploiting children" crowd has died down just like the racism crowd did once the Survivor show divided by race finally began airing?
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@Keith - are we sure that's not because of utter apathy and disinterest? Just a theory...
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@Chad - I don't know. There is always someone who likes to yell about something for attention. Maybe they wind was taken out of their sails once the show was on.
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I'm still watching, too. I totally want them to revolt against the man, though. Between the enforced social classes and the kids getting paid despite whether they do the work (ahem, Taylor) and the mysteriously chosen council leaders who the kids haven't been allowed to kick out despite whether they do the work (ahem, Taylor) and the stupid journal arbitrarily telling them what to do, it's beginning to get a little frustrating (especially since I'm sure that between 40 kids, there's plenty drama without all that). From last episode, it does seem as if the kids hate the journal as much as I do, though, and there will at least be elections next episode.
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@Allison - I turned to my wife last night when the yellow team was doing such a poor job as cooks and wondered why the other teams don't have a town wide vote to move the yellows down the ladder. They obviously have the numbers. It would be interesting to see if "the man" would intervene and say it is against the rules.
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