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   From: seanc130@hotmail.com   
      
   "Sarah Palin: Lie, Lie, Lie, Drill Drill Drill!"  wrote   
      
   > How realistic was this week's "Fringe"?   
      
   Huh??   
      
   'Realistic'??   
      
   If you're watching this show expecting *realism*, you definitely need to   
   switch the channel.   
      
   I like a lot of things about 'Fringe' so far, but realism is most   
   *definitely* not something I ever have or ever will expect from it.   
      
   > Can metal really get inside your brain without you noticing?   
      
   Ahh, wouldn't *you* like to know?   
      
   Let's just say that, if it can, you wouldn't know about it anyway, so   
   there's no point in worrying.   
      
   And there's *definitely* no point in wondering why I put it there -- COUGH   
   COUGH -- I mean, how it got there.   
      
   > The detailed responses depicted on the show, says Milstein, just don't   
   > happen.   
      
   I really don't think that anyone with even the slightest scientific   
   knowledge ever thought they did. Like I said -- 'Fringe' is a good show for   
   many reasons, but detailed scientific realism is most *definitely* not one   
   of them. There's a basic grounding in a scientific worldview that give it   
   all the slightest tinge of believability. But the whole way the show   
   operates is to take thought-provoking, but vague and unverified, ideas and   
   facts on the edges of science, and then leapfrog off from them to completely   
   far-out, paranormal conclusions. The science is more an excuse to delve into   
   the paranormal stuff than the paranormal stuff is an excuse to explore the   
   fringes of science, as was often (not always, but often) the case on The   
   X-Files. It's sci-**FI**, not **SCI**-fi.   
      
   I mean, dude -- halfway through the first episode, they said that taking LSD   
   and ketamine and getting in a sensory-deprivation tank allows you to not   
   only have an interesting out-of-body experience (which it really could), but   
   to actually meld your brain together with that of someone else who's in a   
   coma, so you can temporarily become one with their mind and absorb their   
   knowledge.   
      
   After *that*, anyone who was expecting rigourous scientific accuracy is   
   friggin' nuts.   
      
   --   
   --Sean   
   http://spclsd223.livejournal.com   
      
   House: [yelling up the stairs] People used to have more respect for   
   cripples, you know! [looks over at guy in a wheelchair] They didn't, really.   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)