Re: Fantasy/sf TV shows Re: past discussions

On 4/11/12 6:35 PM, Jenny Tait wrote:
> On 4/10/2012 11:52 PM, Malachi Kenney wrote:
>>
>> On Apr 10, 2012, at 8:52 PM, Jenny Tait wrote:
>>
>>> However, I still miss Lost terribly.
>>
>> I never saw it. Was that the one where a Minnow Airlines charter
>> flight crashed and left a ragtag bunch of castaways stranded on an
>> island with nothing but strange, coconut technology, an oddly
>> disjointed narrative, and too much apathy to build a raft?
>>
>> Wait, never mind. You're talking about the one by JJ Abrams. Is he
>> still doing PIDOOMA plot tricks with his new one? Let me guess…
>> there's a mysterious, unexplained happening? And someone seems to KNOW
>> about it? And, don't worry, kids, we've actually plotted all this out
>> in advance (honest!), so ALL YOUR QUESTIONS WILL BE ANSWERED?
>
> I hate you

I'm not watching television at this time, and when I do, I only get
broadcast stations, not cable.

That said, I loved Lost for two or three seasons, never missed it. Then
I got just too fed up and disgusted with all the reruns, and all the
episodes that were all flashbacks with things I'd seen before, just
slightly altered or with something new about that scene revealed (they
must save a lot of money on filming that way), and all the stuff that I
figured was never going to be explained in any way possible. They
reached the Outer Limits of my Willing Suspension of Disbelief, and I
hate being manipulated. Time travel stories tend to give me a headache
even for the relatively mild ones, anyway. (I did see "Life on Mars"
through to the end).

"Fringe" lost me about the third time that they cut open or burst open a
human body, sometimes alive and sometimes a corpse, and showed it packed
full of insectile or tentacular "thing(s)". At that point, it was
"Never again!". Just call me squeamish. But autopsy scenes and
rotten-corpse scenes never made me swear off "Bones" or "CSI", though
I'm not watching them now either. I would if I turned the tv set on.

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