The Great Christmas Light Fight

The show is a great idea and the first few seasons were great. Now they seem to be going with the Extreme Home Makeover route. Every family has a heartfelt sick, dying or dead family member that they do the light displays for and now they are all way over the top computer generated displays. They need to stop with the feel sorry for me and computer/drone displays and just get back to basics. They need normal displays that normal everyday people do. The displays the last couple of seasons are getting ridiculous and to have displays made of drones is jumping the shark. Basically need an engineering degree or a Masters in computers to even compete. Really taking all the fun out of it.

This is actually now my seasonal favorite show! I have watched it most of the years it's been on. It's amazing how fancy people get decorating their homes. And all the DIY.

I couldn't do anything like that. In fact, at 62, I do decorate but do not put up lights outside. I love Christmas and enjoy decorating inside and out. (I usually decorate during the week after Halloween.)

But when the Christmas season is approaching, I start looking forward to the new season of The Great Christmas Light Fight. (My neighbor probably hates hearing me talk about it every year.) And my favorite judges are the current ones, Carter and Taniya. And I hope they continue to be the judges. They are too fun. I love them. The earlier ones were not as personable.

This is actually the ONLY tv series that I make sure I see EVERY episode of. (My other favorite series I regularly buy the DVD sets, so I don't always worry about seeing all the episodes.)

When my kids were young we had them in a small daycare in a small town in New Hampshire. There was nothing special about the daycare other than it had some Disney characters painted on the side of the building. Then one day we came there and the characters were painted over because the owners had received a letter from the Disney legal department warning them about copyright infringement, with a warning to remove them or else. Disney is famous for vigorously protecting their copyrights.

Fast forward many years to season 9 of The Great Light Fight. After watching 2 amazing light displays we see a house that is entirely decorated in a (very lame by comparison to the other displays) Disney theme. How in the world were they allowed to get away with that?? Oh wait, ABC is owned by Disney so just like many of their other programs they have to chuck in a Disney promotion. It was a good reminder of why I so rarely watch ABC any more.

Always enjoy watching these back at Christmastime. The seasons are shot a year in advance, and as the disclaimer said before each episode this season - airing 2020 was shot in 2019 - they were shot prior to Covid restrictions.

While I really like this idea, I just can't in good conscience support or promote a show that applauds the waste of resources by some when so many others cannot afford to heat their home or have power. This makes me sad, really. In order for me to actually appreciate something like this the prize would need to be a donation to organizations that help people with affording utilities.