Are there to many young and sexy people on tv?

[Jayson1]

Am I the only person who sometimes will prejudge a show just by the looks of it's cast? If everyone is to young or sexy my initial gut instinct is to think the show won't be any good because they casted for looks over acting talent. I think this is a really big reason why I almost never watch network tv anymore and only watch cable or things like Netflix. Network tv still seems very much a slave to the idea that half of it's cast has to look like supermodels.
I remember when the "Chicago Fire" I think it was called came out and I saw a add and I couldn't tell any of them apart except for the older fire chief character who was the only one who looked like someone who might actually have that job. Granted there are exceptions like "Lost" which had a person I trusted in Abrams, actors I was familiar with and a great premise so the super sexy cast didn't really impact my view of the show or lower expectations.
I think I do sort of make a exception with comic book based shows since those are very fantasy based and exist in a kind of fake reality. Overall I like tv shows that have people of various ages and older people very well represented along with people who feel more real and less Hollywood in looks.

Jason

 

[Tosk]

*too

Depends on the type of show, what it's about, and what network it is on.

 

[Gary Mitchell]

Obviously you never actually watched Chicago Fire as characters like Mouch, Hermann and Otis would never be characterized as young and sexy.

 

[Orac]

Yes, I am prejudiced against young and sexy people. I hate them! A young sexy person took my job!

I also hate watching Star Trek because of the lack of fat slobs in the Star Fleet.

I will only watch the first 10 Star Trek movies where the heroes are old and unfit.

 

[MacLeod]

Call me old fashioned but if I like the sound of the show I will give it a go regardless of how the case looks, if the writing isn't up to standard I'll likely stop watching.

 

[Jayson1]

Call me old fashioned but if I like the sound of the show I will give it a go regardless of how the case looks, if the writing isn't up to standard I'll likely stop watching.

I agree in general but sometimes you see things that take you out of the moment like Abigail Spencer being a super hot historian. Historians are supose to be old bookish types. Now if they had made Sakina Jaffrey the historian it would have looked more realisitc and since she is also hot you wouldn't loose anything in that area as well.

Jason

 

[stardream]

This is why I like British TV. The leads are normally young and attractive (or at least attractive if not young) and the rest look like real people. There is no need for the receptionist or the UPS guy to look like they just stepped out of a magazine cover.

 

[MacLeod]

Historians are supose to be old bookish types.
Jason

Wouldn't that be a sterotype though?

 

[Jayson1]

[QUOTE="Jayson1, post: 12034019, member: 73943" Historians are supose to be old bookish types.
Jason

Wouldn't that be a sterotype though?[/QUOTE]
A little bit but you can always be more flexible than you might think. KInd of like how Giles on "Buffy" has that kind of stuffy British stuff you would expect from a character like that but we also find out he was the ripper and bad ass in his youth. He was into classic rock music and he was sexy even if he was old.
For me sexy isn't really the big issue with some characters so much as I prefer the more real world type of sexy character you actually see more in real life. Someone like Pam from "The Office" or Scully from the "X-FIles." Also it helps if the actor if young can play older. I was shocked to learn Gillian Anderson was only 24 when she did the "X-Files" pilot.
Jason

 

[MadeIndescribable]

If everyone is to young or sexy my initial gut instinct is to think the show won't be any good because they casted for looks over acting talent. I think this is a really big reason why I almost never watch network tv anymore and only watch cable or things like Netflix. Network tv still seems very much a slave to the idea that half of it's cast has to look like supermodels.

I won't dismiss something because of this, but I will watch it being more critical than I would otherwise.

 

[Markonian]

Watch reality TV. /troll

To me, everyone from age 30 is old. So the cast is generally more evenly divided between young and old. I don't mind the sexiness. Lost was pretty diverse in that regard.
Apart from the figure it's just a matter of makeup-art.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

It's unfortunate that you need to be young and attractive to get on TV regardless of acting skill. It's something I'm not in favor of but is not high enough on the 'evils' list to get too mad about it. All I can do is watch TV shows with good writing and acting and cast my vote that way.

It becomes a bigger problem when Hollywood women get into a skinniness arms race that causes them to harm themselves.

 

[Forbin]

No, I like to look at young attractive women.
It does beggar belief, though, when a 24-year-old supermodel is presented as the reigning expert on a subject, or an experienced agent or scientist. While I have know plenty of perfectly capable and intelligent pretty young people, for every one of those, I've met 100 utter goofballs who light their farts.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

My feeling is, if I want to just look at young sexy women, that's what the Internet is for, not to mention just going to a nightclub and looking at them. I don't want my art compromised just so I can look at them on TV too.

I can believe young sexy women as intelligent, but not beating men twice their size in hand to hand combat.

 

[Orac]

What kind of sick pervert gets enjoyment from looking at young sexy people?

 

[urbandefault]

Am I the only person who sometimes will prejudge a show just by the looks of it's cast? If everyone is to young or sexy my initial gut instinct is to think the show won't be any good because they casted for looks over acting talent. I think this is a really big reason why I almost never watch network tv anymore and only watch cable or things like Netflix. Network tv still seems very much a slave to the idea that half of it's cast has to look like supermodels.
I remember when the "Chicago Fire" I think it was called came out and I saw a add and I couldn't tell any of them apart except for the older fire chief character who was the only one who looked like someone who might actually have that job. Granted there are exceptions like "Lost" which had a person I trusted in Abrams, actors I was familiar with and a great premise so the super sexy cast didn't really impact my view of the show or lower expectations.
I think I do sort of make a exception with comic book based shows since those are very fantasy based and exist in a kind of fake reality. Overall I like tv shows that have people of various ages and older people very well represented along with people who feel more real and less Hollywood in looks.

Jason

TV shows are meant to attract people to watch them. That means, in part, putting on as many attractive actors as they can find.

Do you not know any young, attractive, sexy people? They're everywhere. I meet new ones every day. Young sexy people are everywhere, and that's reflected on TV. (Not counting Baywatch--that's an anomaly that can't be explained.)

So, no. There are not too many young sexy people on TV.

And yes, like many of the threads you post, you're probably the only one. Get out of the house and breathe real air.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

There are young, sexy people everywhere, but there are a lot more plain looking, moderately overweight people. Even a few ugly ones. And some of them are better at acting than the young, attractive people who get all the good acting jobs.

I just don't think that my base needs and my intellectual needs should be conflated. I can satisfy my base needs with porn, and my intellectual needs with films.

 

[Forbin]

What kind of sick pervert gets enjoyment from looking at young sexy people?

I can't even imagine!

 

[psCargile]

I see enough old, ugly people at work.

 

[Owain Taggart]

In some cases, I find it to be a problem. For instance, I find the concept of The 100 interesting, but I can't get behind the fact that almost all the cast is very young. These people are supposed to be surviving together, yet there's not one role-model among them? Realistically, these people wouldn't be surviving for very long, unless they had a mentor to guide them and give them survival skills. So, for me, the whole concept falls apart due to that.