Laguna Beach’s Love Triangle is A FARCE?
I never in a million years would have guessed that the love triangle between Kristin, L.C. and Stephen was merely a figment of the producers’ and editors’ imaginations.
But according to TIME Magazine, it is:
The first season of Laguna Beach, MTV’s reality series about rich teens in Orange County, Calif., centered on a love triangle among two girls (LC and Kristin) and a boy (Stephen). The problem, says a story editor who asked not to be named, was that the triangle didn’t exist. LC and Stephen, he says, were platonic friends, so the producers played Cupid through montage. LC “would say things about [Stephen] as a friend,” says the editor. “[LC] said, ‘I just love this guy.’ All you have to do is cut to a shot of the girl, and suddenly she’s jealous and grimacing.
STOP THE REALITY TV PRESSES!!! This is BIG news. And kind of depressing.
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1 opinion for Laguna Beach’s Love Triangle is A FARCE?
nurse4kitties
Apr 1, 2007 at 11:21 pm
Face it, all of the O.C. “reality” shows are more-or-less fake. Having lived in Orange County for ten years before finally having the opportunity to leave (at which point, I left), I can say that these programs portray a very narrow slice of Orange County’s populace. The focus is on the snotty rich kids and their self-absorbed drama-dork lives…and even THAT is what gets caught on camera. Please.
There’s a whole lot of Orange County that is NOT located on the waterfront, with people who aren’t rich, and guess what? I bet most of them have lives that are really more interesting. Wouldn’t any of our lives take on a whole new aura of excitement if we had the ever-present musical score as an accompaniment? Or to have someone make a hurtful remark, to catch our pained expression, then to cut to another scene , completely omitting the park where we just told the other person to shove it and die? Naw, they can’t show that part, because then (insert name here) won’t look like a doormat, and what fun is that?
Well, hell.
You know, I have days where things feel just a little–oh, I don’t know–washed out, maybe. Where can I sign up for a musical score and a film crew? Somehow I think it would liven things up in my life just a bit…
…what about yours?
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