I’m totally going to sound like an old man here, but I accidentally watched the show Breaking In. The plot, however implausible, wasn’t what bugged me.
How is it that the only characters on the show that I remotely related to were Christian Slater and Megan Mullally? Those cyber-kids (and I do mean kids since they weren’t portrayed by the typical late 20/early 30 something hollywood actors), are just so thinly written. Not that I really want to know more about people who speak in internet-speak. I know it was the writing, but seriously, could I be less sympathetic to any of those whiny twenty-somethings who feel cheated because they don’t want to work for a huge-multi-global corporation? Like they deserve to have their feelings taken into consideration? Sure sure, I know it’s fiction, and a silly comedy. (Actually pretty bad actually) but the premise is just grating.
Portraying hotshot teens with “awesome” jobs who get away with murder isn’t doing this generation any favors. Not all kids think like this, I’m sure. Depressing to think about.
Sheesh, I’m still proving that Generation X isn’t the roundup of slackers that they portrayed it to be.
