Confessions of a Kevin Pereira...fan?

Confession: I like G4. I do. I am a gamer that actually likes G4. I admittedly don't watch the station as much as I used to since they give the gaming shows a special timeslot amongst all the nonsense they now call their "line up" but hey, you gotta pay your bills, right?

Some of my favorite TV personalities have come from G4, most notably Morgan Webb and Adam Sessler who I tend to treat like little collectable salt and pepper shakers in the sense that I can't have one without the other.

Not counting Martin Sargent, who I hated, I've pretty much just enjoyed the fact that G4 has always hired people who were likeable by more than just the people who paid them and down to earth to the fans for more than the just the half hour to hour they had to deal with them.

So here's another confession: I hated Kevin Pereira.

To me, he single handedly destroyed the mold from which G4 hosts, with the exception of Martin Sargent, were previously created from. He was rude, cocky, annoying, and I didn't find him the least bit funny even though to me, he tried the hardest out of the all the G4 hosts.

I stopped watching G4 for a while and a lot of changes happened. Sarah Lane, Kevin Rose. Gone. Tina Woods, Laura Foy, Cory Rouse. Gone, gone, and gone. Adam and Morgan where the only people I recognized. Oh, and him.

I didn't exactly welcome Attack the of the Show (which had replaced my beloved ScreenSavers) at first but over time, I learned to tolerate it. Tolerate turned to like. And like turned to "7 P.M. is AOTS time!". But what I didn't notice was that while this show was growing on me, so was Pereira.

It occured to me that Kevin was the only person who dared to have such a different kind of persona while he was on TV. Adam Sessler, for example, has an alter ego for when he hosts X-Play. He's this clueless, overly happy go lucky guy who more often than not, is the butt of Morgan's (or even the narrator's) jokes. But overall, in real life, he keeps the likable part about him at least. It should also be noted that Mr. Sessler has a Bachlor's Degree from UCLA in English Literature.

The truth about Kevin Pereira is that he is a sweet, humbled and funny guy who was smart enough to pull off a TV persona that was actually nothing at all like him. He blogs regularly (more than any current G4 host that I know of) and just really likes being around people. Smiling to take a picture with a fan, that's Morgan Webb. Getting drunk and playing hours of Rock Band with a fan and taking photos of it, that is Kevin Pereira.