Yeah! Good job, Springer!
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Maybe it's just my imagination, but how come
every time the narrator said the word "alien" it sounded like the word was in parentheses?
Or maybe like he found the word "alien" distasteful?
Kind of "smirky" like, ya know?
It sounded to me like the narrator put his own cynical, subtle spin on the subject matter by doing this little "deprecating highlighted tweak" to
the word
every time he was paid to say it.
Or is it just my ingrained distrust of any mainstream commercial media presentation of material of an "alternative topic" nature?
I felt, apart from Springer's masterful delivery, the manner in which the program was structured kind of "spoke down" to the audience. The way,
after every one of the many commercial breaks, they felt compelled to recap everything that was presented prior to breaking away. As if the short
attention span of their targeted consumer audience will have been so dazzled by the onslaught of the program sponsor's ad campaigns, it was
imperative to remind the couch potatoes, every time, of what had previously transpired, to keep them transfixed until the next commercial break.
Out of the whole of the entire time-slot, probably only half was spent actually
advancing the information presented. The rest of the time was spent on commercials, reminding you of what you had just seen before the break, or
teasing you with what you were going to see after the break. And then more commercials.
But that's just my admittedly rabid, anti-boob-tubist opinion.
I think it's apparent why I loath commercial television, and avoid it like the plague.
I
hate the consumer brainwashing goings-on, and prefer my brain nice and funky, thankyouverymuch!
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So to recap: Good job Springer! You brought some much-needed class to an otherwise mediocre commercial-centric program.
Huzzah!