TV relooking
Monday, 2. November 2009, 12:29:22
This weekend I saw a few episodes of people relooking programmes.
It's the kind of thing where they get two people who dress really badly to stand in the street for twenty minutes while the passers by comment on how plain they are.
To spice thing up a bit they get some overly extraverted style guru to coach them. Generally what happens is the plain people get a hair cut and a new dress or pair of trousers.
In the meantime, the viewers that we are can watch as the plain people get taken apart. At the end when they see themselves in the mirror they're suprised and sometimes burst into tears with the emotion.
This kind of thing does make me ask myself one or two questions.
Firstly, if you going to go on tv and you know then you do make at least an effort. Probably the tv team look in the person's wardrobe to find the first possible mixed of clothes available.
Once the plain people have been relooked what's going to stop them from getting back into their old habits. Especially if they're the kind of person who spends 3 minutes preparing themselve a day. They're not going to change their habits and put on mascara, a skin wash and all the rest to go out to buy the paper.
It's just tv and voyeurism as usual. But most of the time when I turn on my tv that's all there is anyway.
Just in case those tv peopme knock on my door I'd better get rid out all my original seventies clothes.
It's the kind of thing where they get two people who dress really badly to stand in the street for twenty minutes while the passers by comment on how plain they are.
To spice thing up a bit they get some overly extraverted style guru to coach them. Generally what happens is the plain people get a hair cut and a new dress or pair of trousers.
In the meantime, the viewers that we are can watch as the plain people get taken apart. At the end when they see themselves in the mirror they're suprised and sometimes burst into tears with the emotion.
This kind of thing does make me ask myself one or two questions.
Firstly, if you going to go on tv and you know then you do make at least an effort. Probably the tv team look in the person's wardrobe to find the first possible mixed of clothes available.
Once the plain people have been relooked what's going to stop them from getting back into their old habits. Especially if they're the kind of person who spends 3 minutes preparing themselve a day. They're not going to change their habits and put on mascara, a skin wash and all the rest to go out to buy the paper.
It's just tv and voyeurism as usual. But most of the time when I turn on my tv that's all there is anyway.
Just in case those tv peopme knock on my door I'd better get rid out all my original seventies clothes.
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