Christmas is a time for watching TV. You will most likely find me slouched down on the couch with a huge box of chocolates for the entire holidays. It’s kind of a Christmas tradition, I did it ten years ago and I will probably continue doing it until my dying days, or until I’m forced to make dinner for myself, whichever comes first.
However, the quality of TV programs of today (or should I say the lack of programs) have become a, how should I put it, a marmalade heart in my otherwise perfect chocolate selection. Previously, I was happy flicking through the channels, watching old reruns of Loveboat or Little house on the prairie. And after a while I was bound to encounter a classic movie by the name of say: Clueless or Legally Blonde. So I could spend my afternoons, happily dozing of during commercials.
Todays TV is a totally different story. The introduction of mobile phones to our society has given the TV producers new inventive ways to rob people of their money. As TV-shop seem to attract an, how to put it, older clientele, the new phone games have become increasingly popular. So from 1pm to around 4pm every day, the only thing showing on TV is some girl in a bikini trying to dodge digital footballs that are thrown at her by some invisible teenager who is spending his parent’s earnings on a stupid TV based video game.
It is frustrating! What am I to do? Even TV-shop was better than this!
My alternative is watching the second season of Heroes.
And oh how I love Heroes. I’ve been reluctant to watch the second season even though I’ve had it on my computer for quite some time now. You know how the first season is all new and exiting and how the second season can seem like somewhat of a repetition of what you already know. It becomes too predictable.
The second alternative to the season two phenomena is what I would like to call: the less-clothes-higher-ratings policy. This is when the producers are getting chicken, thinking; there is no way the second season will be as popular as the first one, we have to turn to desperate measures. As an example of this I can take Roswell. Do you remember the fabulous sci-fi series where Katherine Heigl (Izzie of Grey’s anatomy) was first spotted? Of course you do 
Well anyway, in the second season you suddenly noticed a trend about the actors and actresses (in particular the latter of the two) in that they were wearing less and less clothes. Suddenly Roswell had become very hot, everyone was sweating and had to remove a shirt or at least show their mid riff to get some relief. In my opinion, a show that has to turn to such desperate measures to ensure continued high ratings has lowered its standards too much.
Fortunately this is not the case of Heroes. Even though Milo Ventimiglia, who plays Peter Petrelli in the series, needs to take off his shirt surprisingly often, nothing else has really changed since the last season. And seeing the bare upper torso of Milo is nothing that I would find that disturbing, if I may say so
The only unfortunate thing is the continued strike of the writers of the series. It has forced Heroes to take a break after only 11 episodes!! (And if you didn’t know it, almost all other TV-shows produced in the states are now threathened by this strike. Soon there will be nothing to watch!) I am saddened by this as it will take me less than a week to watch all episodes AND because I don’t know the ending! I will probably suffer a nervous breakdown before someone in the US finds a way to solve this problem. Don’t they consider how this will affect the image of their country? The best way to brainwash a people is through TV and now we are forced to watch more and more Finnish and British series. How will this end for USA? Can we ever learn to trust them again?
