TV rots your brain! Turn the volume up!

A lot of people make fun of me because I watch soap operas and many other television shows, saying that I get too caught up in the drama and that I take the shows too seriously. Nothing can be further from the truth!

Last night a bunch of us had an American Idol/Veronica Mars viewing party because we love to sing and solve mysteries and no one in the group ever has a man. For those of you living under a rock, Veronica Mars is a senior in high school whose father is a private detective. Madcap hilarity ensues as she helps him solve cases while trying to maintain a perfect grade point average. It's not that silly, really. I enjoy watching it because of all the cute boys and the Nancy Drewish element. All through the show, I kept hearing comments like "Oh I am SO sure!" whenever anything happened that required a little bit of faith on the viewer's part. This particular outburst came after Veronica sent a text message to Logan using one hand and without looking at her keypad. Hey, it can be done!

The same people who criticized me for being all up in the tv shows are the same people who are trying to analyze a weekly one hour drama about a skinny little high school kid with high tech gadgets who solves murder mysteries. They even go on the message boards and look at the spoilers for the shows in advance. When Veronica found out who the killer was, we all let out a gasp. Little did I know that my gasp was the only genuine one in the whole group because everyone had peeked online to see who caused the bus crash in the beginning of the season.

Television should just be a way for us to relax and get away from the stupid shit we have to see in our daily lives. I admit, there have been some crazy things on tv that have made me roll my eyes. I'm talking about the demon posession storyline on Days of Our Lives. When you go picking apart at something for so long, it tends to fall apart and become unusable. It's like going to Disneyland and reading all of the technical schematics for the haunted mansion ride while you're riding it. Where's the fun in that?

If you think American Idol/Veronica Mars night was bad, think of how much worse American Idol results/Alias night will be. Oy!