Imagination?

Last night, as many highschoolers know, was a new episode of the Real World and the season Premiere of the latest edition of the show Laguna Beach, now called Newport Harbor. Real World, per usual, was excellent, but I was sorely dissapointed in the new MTV show Newport Harbor, although I think it may be the realization that the kids on the show are the same age as my brother who is 6 years my junior, the show really just showed immature, whiny rich kids. Well anyway, this blog it not about that at all, but that was the first dissapointment of the evening.

After these ended, I was still not in that I'm really close to falling asleep stage so I switched, like an good Law and Order fan, to USA, which as all Law and Order fans in the Hampton Roads area know broadcasts re-runs from about 7 till later than I stay up every night except for Monday when they have wrastling (I meant to spell it wrong) later in the evening.

So I turn it to USA and it is a Criminal Intent episode just beginning, which although inferior to SVU, I usually find it to be a very good show indeed... and then by the opening credits I could tell it was one of the newer CI's which star the weird looking girl and Chris Noth (of who I am a huge fan on SATC, but not so much on Law and Order). I'm much more a fan of the Goran and Eames Criminal Intent, they are awesome together!

So this somewhat continued to create an air of dissapointment that I only get when I start to watch a Law and Order and realize that I know the ending, and the ending is that the crime is never resolved (there are very few of these, so I don't catch them too often).

Well as the story begins to unfold I begin to become even more dissapointed and quite possibly even annoyed. Not only was the plot 'ripped' directly from the headlines, it WAS the headlines, I felt like I was watching unsolved mysteries celebrity edition instead of Law and Order. While Law and Order occasionally does take topics from the headlines, never have I seen one soooo blatantly obvious!

Here is the gist: This rather busty, drug-induced, southern blonde loses her semi-depressed, semi-drug addicted son, two days after her new baby is born. She has previously been married to a man she met while she was working as a stripper and he was 40 years her senior, he has since died and she was in the midst of a legal battle with his children over his millions. She currently lives with her partner/leagal counsel/supposed husband who claimed to be the father of her new baby and was a bald jewish man. Oh yeah and by the way this woman was good friends with owner of a 'gentleman's magazine' who had numerous blonde girls on his arms constantly, for which this magazine brought her to fame when she was once a 'honey' of the year!! WOW!

I really think some writers were watching the Anna Nicole case and were like oh S$%&, we have to write a show, we're behind, oh let's just use this one, and we'll add our own ending!! I mean really! It is so sad when WRITERS have a lack of imagination, aren't they some of the people who should have the most! I really lose hope for those of us who don't get paid to be imagintive.

I was watching the Today Show this morning and the Author of the book "The World is Flat" was on, and while they really didn't talk too much about the book, but I believe it is basically sociological look at the 21st century. They did speak to him about the state of society today and asked what he felt was the most important thing to society, he replied "imagination". He stated that with the internet and books and other resources readily available, the only new things we have are those inside our head, and imagination is something that must begin to be nutured at a young age, in hopes of it continuing to grow and foster as people age. Well I believe this author could definitely teach the Law and Order writers a thing or too.

I will no longer watch any Law and Orders that I beleive to be at all taken from the Headlines because these writers are paid to be imaginitive, and I think they are just being lazy. So I strike! Who's with me??