Ask yourself one question: has your mood ever changed because of an event that happened in a TV show you were watching?
If you said yes, you’re normal and honest. But if you said no, then you’re lying to yourself and everyone around you.
Today we are able to watch full series of shows in a matter of days, with the help of Netflix and other online streaming websites. Also, if you like a show, you can go online and find about 1,000,000 other people that like it too—it’s called fandom groups. And there is one for just about anything.
With the help of the Internet and Netflix, people have become more and more attached to their favorite shows.
Some of the more popular shows on TV belong to "Grey’s Anatomy," "American Horror Story," "Game of Thrones," "Doctor Who," and "Supernatural."
People have created websites, blogs, even conventions for these shows. It’s crazy.
But it’s all because we are emotionally involved in the show.
I’m sure by now you all have a show in mind that you are just a little too obsessed with. And I’m sure you’ve cried over that show. I’m sure you’ve thought about writing a strongly worded letter to the writers. And I’m sure you’ve thought about how you would incorporate yourself into the show.
But why do we get so attached?
The easy answer would be because we connect to the characters, but I don’t think a lot of people identify with a demon-killing ghost hunter. But, hey that’s just me. I don’t know your life.
We connect with a show because the writers have a way of making the people in the shows seem real. I mean, as real as they can be.
TV shows are an escape from our everyday lives. For 30 minutes to and hour, we can sit down and watch our fantasy lives unfold.
We get so attached to these characters lives because we want to be able to live their lives.
I mean don’t we all wish we had friends like the cast of "Friends"? And don’t you wish you could date Nathan Scott? Wouldn’t you just die if you had a closet like Blair Waldorf?
So we get attached because we watch these stories unfold every week and we feel like we are apart of the show. We get mad when two people we don’t like get together. We cry when people break up. We go on rants about why the writers would kill off our favorite characters. And we re-write episodes because we want these made up characters to be happy.
It’s crazy, but we all do it.
So whether you wish you were a werewolf on "Teen Wolf" or wish you could hang out with the women of "Orange Is The New Black," keep watching what you want to watch.
