Thursday, April 20, 2006

eSpeptic Drops The Ball, Bigtime..

A Skeptic’s Defense of Supernatural Television
by Jason Colavito

"The supernatural took over U.S. television this year in the wake of the success of ABC’s Lost. Programs about psychic detectives, alien invaders, monster hunters, and mysterious creatures proliferated on American airwaves, and a wary public braced for a science fiction renaissance rivaling only crime-based television in the number of prime time hours devoted to it.
This invasion of paranormal programming prompted immediate cries from television critics that the shows’ monsters were television’s way to explore the aftermath of the War on Terror. Skeptics countered that the success of otherworldly shows indicated that broadcasting had slipped back into a quagmire of irrationalism, posing a danger to America and civilization as we know it."

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The story goes on to again mention the success of Lost, and how can one pay very much attention to an essay that gets it wrong from the get-go?

Lost is NOT about anything supernatural, you blithering idiot, and to posit such destroys your credibility while at the same time causing folks to wonder why even then most lame of editors didn't catch this mistake. Lost is about an experiment, an evil experiment in sociological behavior, and while it may at times suffer from bad writing and amateurish acting, the only things supernatural about it are why the fat guy doesn't lose any weight, and why people would follow rather than dismember, then eat the doltish doctor.

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