| BenKenobi88 said: Dude...they're not copycats....they've been doing top ten lists about videogames for a long time now... I enjoyed Mario Bros 2 as well...though I understand their disdain for it... |
Let me clarify: They're not copying video game top tens, they're copying TV top tens. The kind of drek they play on stations that used to air music videos. Or entertainment networks. "Top Ten Music Videos of the 80s," and "Top Ten Stoner Movies."
The formula is the same. Pick 10 appropriate titles. Get 30 seconds of footage from each one, maybe a couple stills. Arrange them in some kind of hierarchy. Then get some soulless, plastic-faced host to read 'witty' commentary off the cue cards you wrote up the previous afternoon. Insert ads and tah-dah! You have a half-hour of shallow, incredibly cheap cable TV programming.
Programming like this is why there are hundreds of channels and nothing is on. Changing the subject from 80s music videos to video games and replacing the dumb blonde with a couple of gamers doesn't redeem this hideous formula.
I'll stop raining on the parade, now.
/endrant
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