Title: ``long live the car crash hearts
Description: JUST OPENED.
Description: JUST OPENED.
Guest - August 6, 2007 07:24 PM (GMT)
Stephen, Texas is a moderately small town. You know, the kind where everyone knows everyone, and it’s hard to be on a first name basis at all. You’ve probably talked to every single person at least a dozen times, and maybe you’re just acquaintances, but you can’t honestly walk by anyone and say ‘I don’t know them’. Maybe knowing everyone is a good thing, but then again, maybe it’s not. The ‘he said, she said’ thing goes way beyond practically anyone’s realization. A small ‘that skirt isn’t very flattering on her’ can be twisted into ‘Jamie said that Brent said that Jacob said your butt would give a sumo wrestler a run for their money.’ Yeah. It’s difficult to see ‘through the forest of bullshit’ if you catch my drift.
But you and I both know that most people love drama. And when they don’t have it in their own lives, or their lives suck incredibly bad because of it, people want to see other people have it worse than they can even imagine. Cough, cough, bring in MTV. Yeah, it’s cliché to have MTV do a television show on your town, but, hey, who else has a better audience? Who else can play up people’s actions so that the audience is sucked in before they even realize it? Yeah. Exactly. Now tell me why ‘music doesn’t play on MTV’ anymore.
Anyway. A friend of a guy who lived in Stephen’s friend of a friend of a friend’s cousin had just snagged a job as a producer for MTV’s next hit show. ‘Car Crash Course to College’. Yeah, nice title, right? Well, unlike most of the Real World shows, this producer decided it would be a better to do a show where teenagers could relate to, after all, they are the main reason MTV is raking in all this cash in the first place. And after hearing the producer’s idea for the show, MTV decided it was… well, perfect. But there staged one problem. Where could they find a town with the amount of drama the show was going to need? Right-o. Here’s where Stephen comes into play.
The students at the town’s college Stephen University Of Texas was a little bit nervous about allowing their children to be filmed and broadcasted all over the United States, and that’s the reaction that most responsible adults would take to. But, not the students. Oh, no, no, no. Imagine someone coming into your school and saying that you were going to be the cast of MTV’s next big hit show. You were going to be the one that everyone in America was talking about. You were going to be a famous TV show star. Yeah, as you can imagine, all of the school jumped at the opportunity.
And after a small while of how ‘it wouldn’t interfere with the children’s education’, Stephen was signed up to be the location of CCC. (C3 for short.) Any student who attended the Stephen University Of Texas and who wanted to be on the show was interviewed, some did it just as a joke, a dare, or maybe they just wanted a little more attention. In any case, twenty-four students were cast as the show’s leads. And since school has just let in, the filming for the new show has started.
You’re probably thinking that this is a regular MTV show, you know, the thirty-minute to an hour of people just getting screwed over. Well, the last part is practically true, but the time frame is completely different. It’s twenty-four hours of people getting screwed over. Yeah, I know what you’re thinking; this is exactly like that show 24. Except it’s not. Remember how I said there were twenty-four cast members? How many hours were we talking again? Right.
MTV has set aside every Tuesday starting at midnight going to midnight during this summer as the airing time for C3. Yeah, now you’re thinking of the complication that the shows in the middle of the night or early morning won’t be seen. Remember that fantastic little device called the DVR? Bingo. And for the kids who didn’t have DVR… well, they’d just have to stay up to watch their favorite character duke it out. It’s not that it’s a live twenty-four hour feed, but it’s broken down into segments. Every cast member gets their own one hour segment with their own theme song and everything… see how this show works out? Every cast member has a set time their show will be aired, and it will air the different segments of all twenty-four back to back every Tuesday (during Summer, of course).
So, the school year has just started up, the cast is excited, the filming began. Hearts will be broken, friendships will tear, and the drama will go out with a bang. Ah well, long live the car crash hearts.