The Framework Blog: Man TV Is A Beast

Thursday, June 17, 2010

Man TV Is A Beast

´Come on, you know you want to!´

(Oh no, that´s from Spooks)

Man-o-man, I was hiding from the tsunami of hearsay, but it reached the desert. I couldn´t say: ´We´ll abort´, because I was in too deep already. I was kidnapped by foreigners, robbed by a fashionisto, waterboardedly refreshed by conventers, spacetripped by a timelord. THEN, the flying phonebox broke down and we repaired it behind the Moon, and THEN I had 40 days alone in the desert to find my steaming ´Man TV´-hotness. My Kit, my big handbag, was packed with essentials. Sunlotion, lipgloss, mobile, breath mints, teatowel, and 40 bottles of Spa to keep me alive.

Life or death-question, was I, as a frail creature, prepared for Man TV? Let´s work the list and fight the system with a wild card.

I was a good mapmaker before ops, a good quoter of old Greek Philosophers, but I stumbled over my feet, was heard by the Kalif and I could persuade my fellow Englishmen to move elsewhere. Oh no, that was ´Lawrence of Arabia´.
I had to get on land on D-day as one of my ops, ran across the beach shooting, and had the hardest day of my life. Oh no, that was ´The Longest Day´.
I wore no helmets during ops in the field and in the sack, again, there was a sea. Oh no, that was ´Navy Seals´.
I worked in ops, was arrested for the death of 9 privats, was innocent and yet, turned out to be a killing machine. Oh no, that was ´High Crimes´.

What did I get in return? My Wild Card didn´t play poker, but he could fight the system heads up with Rorschach cards. It was a refreshingly nice paced, mild distRAction with male action, female rescue ops, and indepth and realistic soldier stories. Remember, I read the book beforehand. I saw all episodes in one go and don´t want to review it, ~~just yet~~. Now, if you would, Wild Card...