Myrtle Beach Message Board

Let's address directly that bigass elephant in the room. Television is not reality. Very few times is something shot and shown on television that is raw and unedited and even then fewer people are interested. Reality is not edited, it happens as it does. So documentaries that are factually true, any news program, live sporting events, and yes reality shows are structured specifically to get the most amount of people to see them. This is necessary in programming and means that it changes the reality of it.
With that in mind several sites like starcasm.com and any site that references it are decrying weeks before the premiere that the show is fake. They even site this very fan page as proof the show is fabricated. By the basic logic above simply because it is a TV show period, they're correct. The show is structred. But what they don't understand is not only is that irrelevant but if the show was raw and unedited no one would watch it. Imagine watching an hour of someone doing laundrey, the dishes, and then talking about their taxes until the credits roll. THAT's reality. What these shows do, including Welcome to Myrtle Manor, is take real people with real personalities and create situations for those personalities to react. The best reactions are edited in a way that entertains us. The people who reside in the trailer park are not professional actors playing a role, they are that way whether or not the cameras are rolling or not. People watch these shows because they know this, and therefore can relate to someone better than an actor where the disconnect of "that's not how they really are in reality" prevents from doing so.
A trailer park is a communtiy. A community is an opportunity to have an extremely diverse set of personalities to interact with each other creating interesting situations. If those interactions are made because of situations the show set up, it doesn't make the way people react less real. So people like starcasm (and they key to their motivation is right there in their name) have no interest in being entertained, their business is to tear down things by having the "scoop" that reality shows are fake. As I said before, if by fake they mean it has been processed and edited for maximum portrayal, then yeah of course it is. So is WWE, American Idol, Nightline, The Walking Dead, WMBF News, and everything else on TV. If by fake they mean insincere with people created just for the show, not only are they incorrect, but they are ignorant and sensationalist for not doing any research aside from reading this page and Twitter feeds and formulating the most damning perspective possible just for site hits.
It's entertainment. Being entertained is subjective. It also takes a willingness to allow yourself to be entertained. If you can't handle the fact that real people with real personalities are being put into situations they wouldn't have beenin if not on TV, then it's time to throw the thing out the window and take up bird watching. That's a hobby that is in real time with no editing, a total immersion in reality.

The rest of us will be enjoying a show that promises hijinks and hilarity featuring real people we can relate to enough to invest ourselves in their exploits. As for me, you all know what Team I'm on.

But the old hound with the buck teeth is missing! Don't you wonder what has become of him?