Less Noble Leisure Pursuits
Even though it didn't officially come out until today, we got our copy of God of War 2 last night, and it is fabulous. I anticipate not a lot of knitting getting done this week - we have been waiting for this to come out for a year and a half, since we beat the original game! It is finally here and it is everything we hoped.
I also watched the most recent episode of Engaged & Underage yesterday, and I'm about to give up on that show. I think it is pretty obvious by both the title and the fact that it is on MTV that this show is supposed to be trashy. Maybe that makes me a bad person, but I think trashy TV is pretty funny. My co-workers told me about this show, and it had so much promise, I immediately went home and set up a Season Pass.
Engaged & Underage is not nearly what it could be. First of all, probably due to legal restrictions, the people are really not underage! I mean, yes, they are young, and yes, they are a little immature, but they're all around 20 years old. It is only in my generation that 20 years old wasn't the normal age to get married, and that is because this is the first generation where it has been by and large "okay" for people to have sex and/or live together before marriage. And, no big shock here, these 20 year olds getting married are almost all fairly religious kids who do not believe in either of those two things. It's not trashy or abnormal at all, and when I sit down to watch a show called Engaged & Underage, I'm looking for both! The worst part is that most of the people on the show are just really irritating people, so I'm not entertained and I'm appalled that anyone is willing to live with these people 24 hours a day. The only exception was this past episode, which featured a nineteen year old who was pregnant already. You would think from that description that this could fulfill all my Engaged & Underage dreams, but in fact, they were by far the nicest and most together couple of the entire show and I think they will have a lovely long wonderful marriage.
MTV, you really fell short on this one. Maybe you should stick to Sweet Sixteen and The Hills.