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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Magnus" data-source="post: 100073" data-attributes="member: 588">well, of COURSE that's how it works. it's TV. it's movies. it's entertainment. we don't pay $5-10 per ticket to see the hero triumph over yet another dreary day at work, and getting his kids to do their homework. yes a certain amout of realism an authenticity is necessary, but that's not what we pay/tune in to see. ordinary doesn't entertain. this whole season as a sub plot/arc would have been fine. even those so-called "reality" shows aren't about reality. c'mon, 12 random people get stranded on an island with nothing to eat ALL the time. they are all carefully contrived and scripted scenarios with carefully casted people who they can count on to react a certain way that'll "entertain."now, i'm not saying that this season's approach is a waste of time, i think that the ideas are great. i was complaining about the approaches to dealing with them. yes, good sci-fi is about the human condition. yes, it's about universal human truths. but it's also about heroes. and stopping the "bad guy" and "geting the girl" (... or guy in this case <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />) coz sci-fi is still entertainment.then again, maybe i'm just pissed that Joss is treating my Buffy so badly this season, and THAT'S what i'm really pissed at! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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