[Iguana Man]

These so called reality shows like American Idol, that challenge Survivor thing where 'tribes' of people compete, and others in this venue. Why? Why do you watch these shows? What exactly is the interest? What to you, and be honest dammit, makes these watchable?

My gut tells me this. Watching shows of this nature are for the most part a desire to see people FAIL. Why, if true, is this something you watch? There is Discovery channel if you want REAL failure as presented by the animal world. There is COPS for Christs sake if you really want to see people at their lowest. I just don't get it. Why?

It reminds me of the World Wide Wrestling crap that took off (sadly it still is popular) years ago. It's FAKE! It's presents itself like it's real YET EVERYONE knows it isn't. Same thing with this reality crap. Why?

Why do you watch it, and more importantly, why do you LIKE it?

And for the record, I know folks dig this stuff and I ain't trying to crap on 'you'. I just want to understand the mentality behind watching this stuff.