Actress Kyra Sedgewick (formerly from the cop show Major Crimes) is producing a TV series entitled “Proof” which is to say proof of an afterlife where real life actors re-enact real life out of body, light at the end of the tunnel, just met my great aunt Tilly, anecdotal experiences where the audience chooses to believe or not believe the “evidence” presented. It features a “doctor” who analyses the info from patients who died but returned to life and recounted their personal experiences. At least that’s what I was able to glean from the teasers. There could be more such as the body losing weight after the “soul” leaves etc. but so far nothing like that has been shown. It does show the “bright light” however. So, here we go again with another string of religious mumbo jumbo a la “Touched by an Angel” and “Oh God” garbage. More religious pap being fed to the credulous. I’ll bet people are getting tired of the ghost hunter shows and are looking for more chewing gum for the eyes. Can’t wait to see the streets of gold and them pearly gates.
Cap’t Jack
With any luck it will be a ratings flop, but I won’t hold my breath. People still watch those ridiculous ghost hunter shows.
Hold on to your hat Darron, it’s about to start and the previews are even more detailed with bright lights, pseudo-philosophical dialogue and proof, yes anecdotal proof of an afterlife. The catch is that the director mimics “real life” experiences and the audience is allowed to make the final decision. Well, 49% will decide there is one anyway. Of course they also don’t “believe” in evolution.
Cap’t Jack
Hold on to your hat Darron, it's about to start and the previews are even more detailed with bright lights, pseudo-philosophical dialogue and proof, yes anecdotal proof of an afterlife. The catch is that the director mimics "real life" experiences and the audience is allowed to make the final decision. Well, 49% will decide there is one anyway. Of course they also don't "believe" in evolution. Cap't JackWhy should there be any fewer people watching this kind of show than there are people who buy the tabloids at the grocery store?
Why should there be any fewer people watching this kind of show than there are people who buy the tabloids at the grocery store?C'mon Breakup, nobody reads any more. they Facebook or go to conspiracy sites on their IPhone, laptop or PC. Tabloids are old hat now. The "face on Mars" and "Obama shakes hands with an alien" are out of date but you're right, they'll be glued to the tube watching this pap just to catch a glimpse of the afterlife. God wears camos now, resembles Phil Robertson and doesn't like gay marriage. Cap't Jack
Actress Kyra Sedgewick (formerly from the cop show Major Crimes) is producing a TV series entitled "Proof" which is to say proof of an afterlife where real life actors re-enact real life out of body, light at the end of the tunnel, just met my great aunt Tilly, anecdotal experiences where the audience chooses to believe or not believe the "evidence" presented. It features a "doctor" who analyses the info from patients who died but returned to life and recounted their personal experiences. At least that's what I was able to glean from the teasers. There could be more such as the body losing weight after the "soul" leaves etc. but so far nothing like that has been shown. It does show the "bright light" however. So, here we go again with another string of religious mumbo jumbo a la "Touched by an Angel" and "Oh God" garbage. More religious pap being fed to the credulous. I'll bet people are getting tired of the ghost hunter shows and are looking for more chewing gum for the eyes. Can't wait to see the streets of gold and them pearly gates. Cap't JackWait a minute...I loved the Oh God movies. You're never going to get people to believe something by hitting them on the head about it. The Oh God movies gently present the idea that Christianity isn't what God wants. Geroge Burns aka God disses the preachers, the bible, and so on, and emphasizes the actual way people should act. Reminds me alot of Pope Francis.
Wait a minute...I loved the Oh God movies. You're never going to get people to believe something by hitting them on the head about it. The Oh God movies gently present the idea that Christianity isn't what God wants. Geroge Burns aka God disses the preachers, the bible, and so on, and emphasizes the actual way people should act. Reminds me alot of Pope Francis.Me too. :-) (The first was my favorite though.) Well, a large number of people believe (or want to believe) in an afterlife, so I wouldn't be surprised if it does well at least for a while. But it will go away at some point. There's only so many times people will want to watch the same stuff over and over. Now if they would go off into different perspectives on the afterlife, I'd totally watch the Valhalla episode. :cheese: Take care, Derek
Wait a minute…I loved the Oh God movies. You’re never going to get people to believe something by hitting them on the head about it. The Oh God movies gently present the idea that Christianity isn’t what God wants. Geroge Burns aka God disses the preachers, the bible, and so on, and emphasizes the actual way people should act. Reminds me alot of Pope Francis.I did too, but it was the cast that made it entertaining, a wise cracking George Burns schooling the naive John Denver. Great stuff and a smack in the face of the evangelical smite em' angry God but it was about a supernatural god after all. I'll bet Pope Frank would have found it a bit blasphemous though. What about the Morgan Freeman version in "Bruce Almighty"? I liked him, especially the walk on water scene. Cap't Jack
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I watched an episode earlier this week. There was a computer scientist who had invented a headset that could somehow read his brainwaves and translate them into images. The video was fuzzy but you could more or less recognize what you saw (a walk in the park, for example). But he suddenly dies of a heart attack while wearing the thing, and after he’s dead, it downloads several terabytes of images into their computer! Now… they assume that a lot of this is just the man’s memories, like your life flashing before your eyes (!), but they also assume (completely illogically I thought) that somewhere in there must be images of the afterlife. So they set up monitors and start looking through this stuff for their “evidence”. But then the man’s widow sues them, saying his final thoughts are private and they have no right to them. So that’s what the whole episode boiled down to, the right of privacy. No drama, no real conflict. All the while I was thinking, so what?
I don’t understand the characters. Jennifer Beals is supposed to be the token “skeptic”, but she’s not skeptical at all. She’s like Scully; she WANTS to believe in the afterlife, she just seems to think for some bizarre reason that she’s not “supposed to” because she’s a surgeon. Not even a neurosurgeon, just a heart surgeon as far as I can tell. She apparently had a Near Death Experience herself, but she acts as if she’s embarrassed to admit it. The other guy, the “believer” – I don’t know the actor’s name but the character’s name is Alan Turing… yeah like we’re supposed to associate that name with “hard science” I guess – he has cancer, and for some reason he can’t wait to find out the hard way if there’s an afterlife, he wants to spend all his company’s money looking for “proof”.
Personally, I have a somewhat voracious appetite for science fiction and fantasy TV series, so I wind up consuming some sub-par fast food of that genre, at times. I would put “Proof” in that category (sub-par science fiction/fantasy TV series).
I suppose if I were eaten up with religious superstitious hopes about “the afterlife”, I would appreciate it more.
Now I would suggest that “Game of Thrones” is well above par in the genre, but I do not consider it an accurate portrayal of history, as did (was it?) Snoop Dog.
Hey, my wife and I used to watch “Ghost Hunters”. Really exciting stuff especially when you suspend reality and mentally travel with J and G to those wierd abandoned sanitoriums and prisons where they look bugeyed at the camera and whisper “did you hear that”? Sends chills up your spine even though you know it’s really BS. And of course there are those who watch the Search for Bigfoot/feet? Shows hoping to catch a glimpse of evidence. It’s entertainment not science. Proof seems to be of that genre but it will probably burn out as a drama series, no car chases, psychopaths, rapists, gangs, you know the real stuff.
Cap’t Jack