gateman9's Journal: Another reason to hate SpikeTV

Okay, so I purposefully avoided both SpikeTV video game awards like The Black Death. And so was only exposed to their snide, demaning commercials and other's reactions to them.

But I do like to watch SpikeTV for some of their gear-head shows (Trucks, HorsepowerTV, Car and Driver, etc) that they had from TNN. I guess you could say I'm a geek that is also a closet gear-head.

So I see this little advert today, around fifty or sixty times, for some award show for cars. My first response: "Oh goody, another poorly produced awards-style show, featuring way too much hip-hop culture (which I have nothing against mind you) and not enough about actual metrics of cars. Gonna avoid that one, let's think of it like an Ebola outbreak."

Seriously, "The Mad-Real SUV" what the hell is that? What kind of metric is that? Car and Driver would tell me its horsepower, torque, ground-clearance,mileage, interior feel, handling, braking and acceleration? And besides, I guarantee the auto-industry cares nothing about this little show. People look for "JD Power and Associates", "Car and Driver Recommended", "Consumer's Guide Best Choice" and so forth when really looking at vehicles. I would even venture that an auto-maker might even be ashamed to have its vehicle on the show.

Fuck off, SpikeTV, seriously. I wonder what the guys who actually run the gear-head shows think of this crap? I think they may be gone, to be fully honest. All the shows I've seen have been repeats from a few years ago. Haven't seen anything new in ages.

"SpikeTV: The Real Network For Men!" Don't you mean the network for preening, posturing adolescents with no sense for the work that goes into customising (or completely building) a vehicle? With commercials every seven minutes, even during a movie (I watched the bastards cut on a Bond film in the middle of a scene) for crap no-one out of their teens would want? Yeah, I'm glad RTM got to pick the commercials around it's shows for the most part, so I actually see bona-fide products I may want. But for the most part, it's targetted at those that bought into that whole "X-Treme"/Mountain Dew crap (my feelings on that whole thing fall right where "Harold and Kumar" goes with it).

Screw it, I think I'll just renew my Car and Driver subscription, go and buy all the Bond films on DVD and say goodbye it to SpikeTV.