Sorry but Pirate Master Sucks
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Sorry but Pirate Master Sucks by Mike Liebner
The show blows and has got to go… bye bye says Tivo! |
OK, so it seemed like it might be a good Summer replacement for Survivor seeing that it comes from the same people associated with reality tv giant Mark Burnett.
I tried to give it a fair shot, but the last episode put me over the edge and I have now officially removed Pirate Master form both of my Tivos. It simply is not even worth watching in fast forward mode. Now that sucks!
Go ahead and blame it on the awful casting if you want, but I think the concept is what is really flawed big time, as setting the show on a creaky old pirate boat and having the contestants play, er, pretend, er contend as if they were real pirates is a concept with less merit than Jackass (any version). Not even the best actors would be fun to watch pretending they were pirates in a reality tv show, much less the motley crew of dorks they have on the show.
Like I said before, I do respect Mark Burnett, but sorry my man - you have let me and the peoples down big time - again.
Pirate Master is not just lame - it sucks!
I am so tired of the lame foot races where they’re racing to find a puzzle piece and bag of fake coins. It’s not clever. It’s not even a competition. It’s a freakin’ foot race with make believe pirates… how lame is that?
They run… they fall… they complain… duh… to base a show around a weekly foot race for a fake pirates chest is an insult to reality tv watchers.
Zanzibar and mutiny and cutting them adrift may be clever bullet points for a 6th grade art class or drama project, but prime time tv demands much more than make believe reality tv. Is that what tv execs really want to fill the airwaves? Is that what people really want to watch?
Network Reality TV has lost it’s bite… it has lost it’s edge… (notice how I said network reality tv).
Very few mainstream big network shows focus on reality with real life drama these days with most of the new crop of “reality tv” looking more like badly scripted and watered down variety shows, low budget live soap operas with bad acting and really bad game shows that are truly a waste of time with no benefits gained from watching.
And I just can’t imagine even ONE “water cooler moment” where someone says anythiing remotely close to “did you see how much loot they won in the foot race last night?” or “did you see so and so fall and scrape her knee last nigt on Pirate Master?” NOPE. not gonna happen. Never!
Now I do love Big Brother and Age of Love is pretty good this Summer, but my man Mark better start working on getting a bit more creative and edgy or he’ll lose his thrones as reality tv king.
On The Lot is lame (it’s next to go on my Tivo cut list I think), Martha Stewert was lame, The Restaurant was lame… geezz… that’s quite a losing streak.
TV executives need to start looking for some fresh new producing talent. I have ideas in my sleep that are better than Pirate Master. I’m sure you readers too have ideas for shows that would rock.
If the best network tv execs can do is come up with drivel like Pirate Master - we may have a grim tv watching future ahead of us. Boy, I can’t wait for Survivor to come back on (or release a new DVD!).
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Haha, i completely agree! Private master does suck, and it sucks hard!
Comment by compost bin tumbler — May 18, 2009 @ 4:45 am