I like shows with more realistic dialogue.

[Oxylepy]

I'm watching Tremors the Series and someone just said "In Oregon there is a fungus that covers something like 2000 acres, and it's considered a single organism"

I love it, and the person that said it was a scientist, which is even better. Some shows they would say the fungus' scientific name and then explain it. Yeah because we can all know scientific names for every single thing we have ever read about, seriously people... It makes real life conversation pale in comparison and gives some people unrealistic expectations of conversations (I've been ridiculed because I didnt remember the specific name of things many times or because I didnt know something, seems a lot of people have decided I'm a "genius" and I know "everything about everything" and have an "answer for everything" when in reality I just combine logic with information I know, state it, and then tell people that's just my own view/guess).

[j_h_smith]

If you're looking for Hollywood to lead the way to beating illiteracy, you're sadly mistaken. Kinda like the Hollywood misconception of shooting a gun while holding it sideways.

There's no hope for this country as long as Hollywood is where the young are being taught.

Jim Smith

[Oxylepy]

I dont own a TV, I either buy or download shows/movies, that way I dont have to deal with commercials. And movies/TV are also all poorly done lately, it seems that they cater to the masses and the masses like things that are suspenseful, even if that sacrifices dialogue/story/thought/character development/etc.

Mind that typically I have my head in a For Dummies book or a text book, so suspenseful isnt really my thing, in fact I get enough suspense guessing how they are going to prove out the general answer for a differential equation XD

[WingedWolfPsion]

Some shows are quality, others are crap. That's the way it's always been. I know the Latin names of an embarrassingly large number of herps.

[Oxylepy]

Some shows are quality, others are crap. That's the way it's always been. I know the Latin names of an embarrassingly large number of herps.

That is definitely impressive. However that's just herps, it really seems like a lot of shows (CSI type shows) have people who know just about everything, which is just insane.