Shark Weak

I just heard someone talking about how the Discovery Channel’s Shark Week is coming up soon. Shark Week is where the network spends an entire week airing shows that have something to do with sharks. I thought to myself… who gives a shit? Great, sharks are deadly predators that can swim very fast and can smell a wounded minnow from 12 miles away. We get it already. Enough. I promise that I will not watch even one second of Shark Week. I’m tired of it. Let’s move on to something else already! What makes sharks so special? There are millions of other animals in the world that are more interesting than some dumb ass shark that just swims around and eats everything that gets in the way like a retarded 2 year old. Let’s not waste and entire week on these things…

Has anybody watched the History Channel lately? I am a documentary junkie. I really enjoy watching informative programs about pieces of our history. Unfortunately, you won’t find much information on the History Channel. These documentaries must have been made for idiots. I saw that a 2 hour special was coming on about the plague of the middle ages and settled in to be educated. Boy was I wrong! In the 2 hours of the show, I would estimate that there was actually about 15 minutes of information and the rest was just re-enactment filler. The show makers filmed about six different scenes of bad actors acting out people in the middle ages crying or whipping themselves to try to cure themselves of the plague. They then showed these 6 scenes about 12 times each with a narrator with an English accent blithering on about nothing interesting. I got up with the realization that I had just wasted 2 hours of my time and knew nothing more about the subject of the show than when I started watching. I know that the History Channel has about 5 different networks for military history, international history and others. Is there anyway that they can make one more for people that aren’t morons? I realize that they have to keep the information flow slow so as to not alienate many TV viewers, but can’t they make a History Channel for the Non-Retarded or something? I bet that you would get a better response than they think. If these programs keep at this pace, I might have to break down and actually read something. Gasp…