Maybe because it is utterly straight up in its manipulation with no real pretension of being anything else? Like, 'you're here to cry at the dead mother looking for her child, right? Good. Here you go.'
Whereas a lot of time that kind of manipulation presents itself as being deep and meaningful and you feel like you're supposed to walk away having Learned A Lesson. Not that Ghost Whisperer is short on moralizing from what I can tell so far, but its kind of like a fig leaf for the emotional porn we all know we're there for?
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Date: 2011-02-20 05:25 pm (UTC)Whereas a lot of time that kind of manipulation presents itself as being deep and meaningful and you feel like you're supposed to walk away having Learned A Lesson. Not that Ghost Whisperer is short on moralizing from what I can tell so far, but its kind of like a fig leaf for the emotional porn we all know we're there for?