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The Greatest American Dog Deserves Better Than... The Greatest American Dog
Posted 08-08-08 at 21:01 by Kutay
have to admit that I came in to the Greatest American Dog a little disappointed. When I caught the first glimpse of an advertisement, I pictured something else entirely...a tour across the country to meet various dogs of note, for instance. Reality TV is, in my book, just exactly what the world doesn't need any more of, ever, and so when I figured out the concept I wasn't thrilled.
Still, some of those dogs were very cute. There were all different dogs--little tiny ones groomed to ludicrousness and big, athletic ones. White ones, red ones, black ones. The dogs looked good.
My mom and my daughter and I were planning to go to the library that evening, but my mom called me and reminded me that the Greatest American Dog was coming on and we agreed that we'd both turn it on and see what we thought. If we liked it, we'd go to the library when it was over; if not...well, we actually failed to make that plan. The implication was that we'd turn it off and go earlier, but we didn't make any kind of plan about calling one another or anything like that. Maybe on some level we expected to like it.
We didn't.
The dogs were cute. I know I mentioned that already, but it bears repeating. There was this one reddish and white dog who looked, in my mom's words, like the quintessential dog. If you drew a dog for a children's story book or got a visual of a boy fishing with his dog, it would have been this dog. But there were other good ones, too.
The problem is, the show wasn't about dogs. It was about their owners, and most of the screen time went to the owners. There were sets, competitions, dumb costumes, and props. There was very little that's natural or comfortable to a dog. It was no more than Survivor or one of its clones with a bunch of dogs in tow--and some of the dogs weren't even treated very well.
It was bad. I won't watch it again. If these are, in fact, the Greatest American Dogs, then they deserve a better forum. Maybe even one that's about dogs.
Still, some of those dogs were very cute. There were all different dogs--little tiny ones groomed to ludicrousness and big, athletic ones. White ones, red ones, black ones. The dogs looked good.
My mom and my daughter and I were planning to go to the library that evening, but my mom called me and reminded me that the Greatest American Dog was coming on and we agreed that we'd both turn it on and see what we thought. If we liked it, we'd go to the library when it was over; if not...well, we actually failed to make that plan. The implication was that we'd turn it off and go earlier, but we didn't make any kind of plan about calling one another or anything like that. Maybe on some level we expected to like it.
We didn't.
The dogs were cute. I know I mentioned that already, but it bears repeating. There was this one reddish and white dog who looked, in my mom's words, like the quintessential dog. If you drew a dog for a children's story book or got a visual of a boy fishing with his dog, it would have been this dog. But there were other good ones, too.
The problem is, the show wasn't about dogs. It was about their owners, and most of the screen time went to the owners. There were sets, competitions, dumb costumes, and props. There was very little that's natural or comfortable to a dog. It was no more than Survivor or one of its clones with a bunch of dogs in tow--and some of the dogs weren't even treated very well.
It was bad. I won't watch it again. If these are, in fact, the Greatest American Dogs, then they deserve a better forum. Maybe even one that's about dogs.
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