It is pretty obvious that I have collected a lot of stuff in
my life. If you've been reading these
posts for a while, you will have probably read my inadvertent collection post
(maybe even both of them), but, I am not really a collector. I collect stuff (inadvertently) but I don't
have a massive collection of anything...probably because I don't have the money
for it all. Nonetheless, in a show of
comradeship with my richer (and therefore not less fortunate) brethren, I must
protest this new show on television called "Collection Intervention."
Basically the show goes to the houses of people who have
huge collections that have taken over their lives. They have rooms and rooms of stuff, often so
much that there isn't any room to display it.
While I am not that kind of person, I can't really bring a lot of scorn
to these people. They are not hoarders,
just misguided. This is not the part of
the show that makes me write this.
The host, and counsellor, is one of the women from that
great PBS show History Detectives. And
this is where this rant begins. No, I
can't criticize her role on the show.
She performs admirably. However,
I have some problems.
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| so, this one is not about stamps, but this is a collection |
- Is she really qualified to help these people? The seem to suffer from some emotional or psychological issue, and probably need more than a host telling them they've got to get rid of some stuff.
- If she is good at this, is her role on History Detectives fakes as well. I love that show. I watch it even if I have no love or knowledge of the topic. Sometimes they have whole shows about the civil war.....and I'm Canadian. I still watch. Now, I will carry around a bit of doubt with me.
- There is nothing intervention like about this program.
I doubt if I will watch this program again unless the
collector actually collects something that I am really interested in.......okay,
I realize, with my lengthy list of interests, it is highly likely that some
collector in need of a television intervention by an ex PBS host probably
collects something that I am interested in.
It is pretty inevitable after all.
