Anyway, as I'm working my way though all eight seasons, and at a much faster pace than when that TV show originally aired, I've come to change my perception on the characters quite a bit. I made a few notes and have yet to flesh it out for a blog post, but I can't help but think that all four guys in Vinnie's gang are not alpha at all. Even Arie turns into a pussy as the show progresses.
Just a few notes:
- Vinnie is rather indecisive; on the one hand, he is easily influenced by Eric and whomever he is currently fucking (this sends him eventually down a tailspin), but on the other hand he is very stubborn and makes a lot of stupid decisions, in the name of "integrity"
- Eric is totally pussy-whipped; can only gets laid in relationships (barely!)
- Turtle doesn't have any useful skills; he chauffeurs the gang around, sits Vinnie's dog, and later on only finds success due to luck
- Johnny is dim-witted; he could get a lot more action than Turtle (even though Turtle thinks he would get more ass), but due to his stupidity, which is a bit of a running gag, he talks himself out of getting laid fairly regularly
- Arie Gold was introduced as an alpha; in season one he tells Eric that he is fucking the current Sports Illustrated swimsuit cover model; his character quickly changes to being pussy-whipped and later on it even emerges that his luxurious lifestyle is due to his wife's trust fund; he is also routinely humiliated by his wife, and thus exposed as a guy who only acts tough when she isn't around
If you're a fan of Entourage, feel free to comment below and let me know what you think of these impressions. I'll try to have an article up by the end of the week.
I could only handle watching the first season (a brother and his friends are way into it). Something about it reeks "chick-flick targeting guys". The guys are all too sensitive. I wouldn't say betas, but immature for sure. I'm thinking it was only made as a direct reaction to Sex in the City. I may go back and watch Californication all the way through for once though, that show's fuckin' crazy.
ReplyDeleteWhile we're at it, what's your view on aforementioned Californication, Aaron? I didn't watch it so far but heard good things about it as an interesting series specifically for male viewers...
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Californication lost my interest pretty quickly, possibly even during the first season.
DeleteThe show is funny. What I think is interesting is how it demonstrates that people can grow on you. Like in the beginning of the show I thought Vinnie was cool and Johnny an idiot. Yet, by the third season I hated Vinnie due to his indecisiveness and found Johnny hilarious.
ReplyDeleteI pretty much agree with your analysis. These guys could get laid much more but due to things like "principles" and "emotions" they dont.
ReplyDeleteQuite sad, really. Darwinian evolution makes it every man's imperative to get laid as much as he can, even of he'd be happier having things like principles and emotions, which serve no evolutionary benefit at all.
I'm always disturbed when I see young men try and pursue happinneess over their Darwinian duty to get laid. Its a very bad message were sending our young men and is probably why young Western women are so much more attracted to virile Muslim men as that's why Merkel brought them over.
Good analysis, Aaron.
1) Roughly speaking, the more advanced a society is, the lower the birth rate.
Delete2) Merkel didn't invite Muslim hordes to Germany so that German women have some "alphas" to fuck. Look up "female hypergamy" and then do some research with regards to the average IQ of various African and Middle Eastern countries, and also how much money those people will receive from the government. You may then realize that the proposition of dating some Muslim "alpha" isn't all that attractive. Furthermore, if German women were willing to have sex with such people, then why do Muslim men need to sexually molest and rape them?
Aaron, of course female hypergamy only applies to things that would have mattered in our distant past, like violence, aggression, muscles, height, dominant personality. IQ doesn't make the cut - it's why women prefer douchebags in the West not doctors or nerds. Arabs, being douchier than the douchiest Westerner, are clearly far more desirable to Western females.
DeleteAs for why Arabs attack women, that's just how Alphas act - they go after what they want when they want. They don't bother with courtship. They know very well the German police won't prosecute them. It's just a more extreme version of the kind of thing you've written about doing in nightclubs, Aaron, where you just go up to a girl and take her. We've all admired you for your Alpha boldness in those stories, where you just did not give a shit and showed her whose boss. Trust me, German women are now far more attracted to Arabs after the attacks consolidated their Alpha status.
Besides, how many of those women's complaints were legit? Women like to make shit up to absolve themselves from blame, we see this in the US all the time.
Aaron, I know that you're an intellectual and it must irk you that women only respond to factors that mattered before intellectuals existed, and that this makes you less Alpha than a poor, low class Arab immigrant who is able to boldly take women with little frar of German police, but denying the not so pretty reality of Darwinian evolution wont make it go away.
Muslim migrants being let into Germany and other countries in Europe is solely political. In Germany, if you speak out against the Muslim migration, you risk losing your job and being kicked out of your flat. That's how bad it has gotten.
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Deletethis is not completely off-topic. I'll respond in a separate post. For the time being, though, I would like you to consider that even before opening the flood gates for mass immigration Germany was home to several million mostly uneducated and unproductive Muslim "alphas" living off welfare. Those have never been considered desirable partners among German women apart from, unsurprisingly, the lowest socio-economics classes.
(typo: now completely off topic; you should have split your original comment in two parts and left the second, unrelated one, on the Open Thread)
DeletePeter, you honestly believe that most German women are throwing themselves at the Muslim immigrants/refugees because they are more alpha? Even the more fanatic left wing feminist types won't date them, assuming they even date men. While I do not live in Europe I visit frequently, and I have not ever seen this.
DeleteNot knowing how representetive that is but a good friend of mine from
Deletea bigger city in southern Germany (Stuttgart) told me that a lot of the girls in his circle of friends (he told me around 15 out of 20), although they were coming from middle-class families, had a phase in there teenage years where they at least hooked up with this kind of muslim/turkish guys. Sure most of them, now in there twenties and maybe not so naive anymore, are now in long-term relationships with german guys. Nevertheless it indicates that there is something appealing for woman regarding there behavior (?) at least when it comes to non-serious/just sexual relationsships.
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I believe it when I see it. I've been to Stuttgart, and the bars and clubs I visited didn't give me the impression that they constitute venues where underclass Muslims and middle-class Germans can mingle. Note that the South of Germany is very conservative, which makes this even less believable.
DeleteI never watched Entourage. Given that most shows aim for the female demographic, you probably won't want to write a storyline where the majority of the male characters pump and dump women religiously. You might have one character like that, and use him for either comic relief or as a morality play. Generally, you watch a lot of the comedies nowadays, and the male characters often play out a lot like the earlier feminist critiques of how women were portrayed in the media.
ReplyDeleteTry nip/tuck, much better the first season.
ReplyDeleteI watched Nip/Tuck until one of the (male) villains was revealed to have a cunt.
DeleteSaw Arie Gold on youtube, the clownish king of that show, who only glow through shallow chest thumping.
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