Oh my Hannah Montana--He Could be the One Part 1

So, in reading other students' blogs I came to this realization: I'm not the most exciting blog writer. Oh well, what can you do?

Last night I had my first taste (and hopefully my last) of Hannah Montana. Prior to this media class I wouldn't have even known that this TV show existed. I had never heard of it. Did I mention that I'm more than a little media illiterate?

I watched it by special assignment as part of our group project for this class to try and make some final decisions about our coding based on some feedback we received from Dr. Coyne. My wife was nice enough to watch it with me. Neither of us watch TV and although she had heard her third graders talk about it before, she had never seen the show either.

In the end, we probably spent as much time talking about the show after watching as we did watching it. Our verdict was that it was a long 23-24 minutes of fluff and meaninglessness with a poor excuse for a plot. I don't know if we could have handled much more of the show. It felt like every second of it was trying so hard to be funny and entertaining, but it wasn't. It was very fast paced.

Aside from the story line and dialogue of the show, two messages the show gave that we didn't appreciate are 1. Parents are ridiculous in their expectations and you can get your way with them if you try hard enough. Hannah's dad was such a pushover. He was simply a character there to be manipulated by Hannah. 2. You should find the ugliest, most original and immodest clothing you can find and wear it. Holy Hannah's wardrobe had some pretty interesting outfits-- some of which didn't bring the word "modesty" to mind.

Anyways, the show was trying to be a little too cleverly funny for us, but, in reality, the messages could have been much worse. The end