I know there are no right or wrong answers on a personality test. But is this right or wrong?
Jun 23
2008
08:37 PM ET
Personality test results: Freak?
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The answer is obviously “personally involved with the characters.” At least that’s the case if the show is any good.
Also, someone please explain to me how you can be “personally uninvolved” with anything?
Why would I be watching otherwise?
I was visiting my parents when the House season finale aired and they actually got mad at me for crying hysterically and it turned into this whole thing about how could i be so committed to a TV show but not to real life etc…Some people just don’t understand.
I am personally uninvolved with my reality TV shows.
If your not involved why would you watch?
If it’s a GOOD show, it draws the viewer in and makes them have an emotional stake in the characters. The ability to empathize with others is what holds human society together, and drama has been a part of this since ancient times. So sue me for not being all dead inside!
Well, if you don’t feel personally involved with the characters, then it’s not a very good show.
It’s fine. Don’t even worry about. If you don’t feel personally involved with the characters then why are you watching the show, or TV for that matter, in the first place.
I definitely think that it’s perfectly normal to be utterly engrossed in TV characters’ lives, but then again… this is probably not the best forum to get a decent gauge of what’s “normal”. Us PopWatchers get pretty involved in all things pop culture. Not just TV.
You know, when I was a child, my father called the TV set “the idiot box”. It’s taken me about 30 years to realize it, but he was right! No wonder polls show that more and more Americans are uneducated! Look at the sh*t they choose to watch on television! “INVOLVED” or “UNINVOLVED” with TV characters??? I know people are dumb, I just can’t believe they’re THAT dumb!!!
So wait, NO ONE is going to point out where this question come from? It’s on the E_Harmony personality quiz.
Gretchen, I’d add you to my hotlist, but am already spoken for. Sorry!
So, if this is from e-harmony, does that mean you WANT someone that’s personally invovled with characters, because it means you can both watch great tv together, or does it mean that you/the other person will have unrealistic measurements for relationships?
I mean, no one is as sexy as David Boreanaz or as endearing as Emily VanCamp or as funny as Steve Carrell the first time you meet them. And no romance will be as epic as the epic romances on television (re: every show invented)…so? is this question a good or bad judge of a person?
“Well, if you don’t feel personally involved with the characters, then it’s not a very good show.”
Amen Raven_Moon!
You’re right, Eric Friedmann. This world would be a much better place when we all aim to be condescending snobs like you.
Seriously though, there’s nothing wrong with being personally involved in any bit of media. Books, movies, sports and music find ways to tug heartstrings if it’s developed well enough. Why should TV dramas be any different? Even some reality TV gets me worked up; the most recent example being Erik on Survivor handing over his immunity necklace. I kept pacing back and forth in the room while I had a migraine, yelling at the TV screen, “WTF are you doing?!”
I don’t think it’s that bad being less attached to real world tragedies, because getting too emotionally involved in the regular atrocities that happens on a daily basis is enough to make anyone crawl under the bed in the fetal position.