So I was watching The Gadget Show and a thought struck me. Okay "struck" is the wrong word. I sat there wondering "why"? It is a truly fecking dreadful programme. All that superficial bollox about gadgets being cool (and by extension making you cool if you own one of them - right) wrapped up in reviews which suffer from my pet hate - "Top Gearization". You know the scripted bonhomie, the unnecessary, carefully stage managed, zany challenges designed to prove something crushingly irrelevant. Now this format might have been interesting the first few times on the progenitor show, but watching a tired copy, of a tired original, doesn't make for interesting or informative TV. But on the other hand, if you were in the position where you had to attempt to sell the notion that having an indestructible vacuum flask (or what ever other piece of ephemeral tat they've been given to review) renders you the most sophisticated person in Christendom, as well as exponentially increasing your chances of getting laid, then making the resultant TV show "interesting" or "informative" isn't going to be among your priorities.
Nor is making it any good.
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