I agree with you, Bob. I wasn't impressed with the show. I really
dislike the repetition that's so commonly seen in the Discovery
Channel's productions (maybe it's all shows...I watch very little
tv.) But George Poteet as "Daddy Warbucks" and the OSU team
"blackballed?" And then the endless harping on crashes to the point
of showing the blood inside a car after a crash. Jeeze...I've been
asked to point my camera elsewhere for much less "bad press" stuff than that.
Did SCTA have a chance to view and approve the show? Will Discovery
come back for the next installation of "crash, death and mayhem on
the salt?" If so, I think I'll read a book or write an email instead
of watching it.
Maybe I'm just getting old and this is the new face of
television. If so, I can do without it.
RtR
At 10:45 AM 12/17/2008, BWANA343@aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 12/17/2008 11:55:40 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
>Mike.Meierle@alcatel-lucent.com writes:
>
>You guys should really like this....
>
>
>12 out of 17. I'm spending too much time w/ ricer motors.
>Where's all the comments on last night's Discovery Channel Bonneville show ?
>My take is Monster Garage type production (and music) featuring hot biker
>chick, wild and crazy electric geeks, and the million dollar race
>car, and lots
>of commercials and repetition. All due respect to Leslie Porterfield, George
>Poteet, and OSU, but they were picked to embroider the story line.
>I guess a show that we'd like would be a bomb, its gots to bees jazzed up
>for commercial TV.
>You'd think a day to day, from on the road to, tech, Salt Talks, the parking
>lot at the Nuggett, rat rods, all the international spectators and
>participants, and all our usual suspect characters, could generate something
>marketable . A kind of Endless Summer treatment, remember that movie ?
>BOB W
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