Turned off

We have been watching Survivor since the get go and once again tuned in for this season.  The show’s producers tried to create buzz by floating out how the tribes would be separated by race.  However, they only kept the tribes split that way for 3 days so it was really just a stunt.  Well this season has been a bit of a bore.

I don’t know if it is just because the personalities involved aren’t compelling or just because we have seen it all before, it just hasn’t been very interesting.  On top of that it seems like every week they insist on showing animals being hunted and killed.  This season they have showed tons of fish being speared, octupus struggling for their lives, and the contestants knocking a baby bird out of it’s nest,  among other things.  Ali is very sensitive to this stuff nowadays considering the reasons behind her vegetarian diet.  She had said for the past few weeks how sick she was of them showing animal after animal being killed on the show.  Although my sensitivity is less than hers, I also don’t need to see that shit.  Yea I  understand they are struggling to survive but showing them turning out the lights on living creatures adds nothing to the show.

Well last night was the final straw for Ali.  The one guy comes walking up to camp holding a live bird. It was white and about the size of a large seagull. He is holding it by it’s sides with it’s feet up as it was trying to squirm free.  He said he saw it in the bushes sleeping.  He calls over the oriental guy since he must be adept at killing animals.  Off camera he snaps it’s neck and we they cut to a shot of him walking away with the now limp body of the bird.  Ali said that was it, she wasn’t watching it anymore.  She went back to take her shower.  She said if I wanted to watch the show I could but she was done with it. 

Well I watched maybe 10 more minutes more of it and then turned it off.  I was thinking if the show changed or just that we have.  When I think back, Survivor has always had this sort of crap in it.  They used to do stunts where they would eat live insects, drink cow blood and I remember the infamous scene where the guy killed the pig.  None of those things which probably were worse than anything they have showed this season, made us stop watching.  I think we both just are more sensitive to animals since we got the dog.  Ali is deeply into enviromental stuff, animal rights and the sort, so by proxy, some of that rubs off on me for sure. I dunno I just saw that scene, imagined the poor bird just sleeping there to only be scooped up and have it’s neck snapped.  It just makes me sad.

I don’t know if I will stop watching the show altogether.  It sounds like Ali has no plans to watch it all anymore and the show isn’t a big enough deal to me to carve out time to watch it alone.

 The weekend is going to be busy.  I have a lot of things spinning in my head to get done.  It’s tough because I have been trying to not write them down because for whatever reason Ali gets all bent out of shape when she sees a list on the counter.    The Eagles are off this weekend so it frees up my Sunday afternoon.

I have a followup appointment with the original doctor this afternoon.  For whatever reason the pain seems less for the past day or so.  So I really don’t know what she will be able to tell me.  Maybe it will just fade away.  I don’t know if I should be anticipating more groping.