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This Show is About Nothing, Like X-Files, Lost, etc.


This show isn't worth watching.

X-Files was witty at times but was a show literally designed to sell commercials. That's where the term "Soap Opera" comes from. It meant a show designed to string you along thinking there's a story but really it was to sell soap commercials.

I can tell when there's a vague mystery based on a concept and the shows never get right to the point of what's happening. It means the writers have no plan for the show and it's all based on some vague idea, "What if there were aliens in the government" "What if people were on this mysterious island" "What if there were multiple dimensions" and so on.

There is no beginning and end to these shows because there is no story.

That's why there's eight shows.

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The punch ... I forget now, but when the guy punched the other guy in the parking lot of something, and the main girl continued to be friends with him ... that is when I stopped it.

People do not realize the behavioral programming capability of the media, and most of what we see in the media is very bad behavior, and kids watch it and fill in gaps about the world with this garbage.

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The TV and media aren't parents. It's up to the kids' real parents to teach them right from wrong.

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Sorry, I just think that is wrong, and so did the majority of responsible people, and that is why they had a TV code. Was the code too over-bearing, yes. It was about specific things and not moral or legal themes. But it was an effort. Today's media makes me want to puke for the most part, and today's kids make pretty crappy citizens too.

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Ignoring that propaganda exists is stupid.

It does, it's all over the media, and the people who purposely make "fake entertainment" that's made to brainwash people are responsible.

It's beyond the ability of kids to figure out and most parents. That's because propaganda is very slick and might even need a psychologist type to figure out what message is being promoted.

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