Ah the “X Factor“. Devised as a replacement for “Pop Idol” (because Simon Cowell wanted to get his grubby little mitts further into the pockets of the average Joe), X Factor has gloriously graced our television screens for four years, presenting yet a fresh array of entertainment that hasn’t ever been seen before -at all- each and every week… Ha. Ha. Ha. Yeah right.

Everything about this television show wants to make me want to kill innocent children. Yes. Innocent children… possibly even innocent, orphaned children. Why? Because it’s just so damn terrible. With each and every series it’s the same damn thing again and again. And to make it worse, while they rip the people who can’t sing that well to shreds, they glorify the people they’ve chosen to manufacture by putting a little sympathy story in right from the beginning, making it impossible for people to have a negative reception of them, automatically meaning that they’ll make it far into the program because people will feels sorry for them. They go on about the “likability factor” from the beginning, but ANYONE will have the likability factor if you slap a sad back-story onto them and show the “nasty judges” being nice to them.

So for months and months they continue in the same routine, time and time again, and eventually when it comes to the public “choosing” who they want to win, they’ve already pumped the viewers so full of crap that they have no choice but to vote for whoever the show’s executives have told them to vote for… why? Because they want money. All they want is money. As if the mansion-size Florida homes that they live in already aren’t enough.

It amazes me how blind people are to this tripe. They watch and indulge it as if it’s actually worthwhile entertainment. It’s shocking and disgraceful. It really is. It makes me sad knowing that this sham is accepted by people as quality television. I could rant all day about it, but I would be wasting too much of my time on something that isn’t worthy of it… so I’ll leave our resident overlord, Charlie Brooker to continue for me…

Posted at 2:58 pm by BlakTornado | Tweet this | Share on Facebook

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