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[fan_eunice]

OMGWTF. So, right after I made that last post I realized it was a full on marathon of Ghost Whisperer going, so I settled in with some snacks and I was totally grooving on the whole show and then......WTF they killed the best friend? No, wait, back up. They kill the best friend by DROPPING A PLANE ON HER?

*blinkblinkblink*

Ooookay? I still think I'm going to download some seasons of this. But...THEY DROPPED A PLANE ON THE BEST FRIEND.

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[klia]

but in the way that I don't roll my eyes too much at because it is so blatant that you know what you're getting into.

It is, but... I can't put my finger on why it doesn't piss me off the way Spielberg usually does. Maybe it's the degree of emotional manipulation? Maybe it's not really long and drawn out? I don't know.

I'm glad you have more Andrea eps to see! Yay!

[fan_eunice]

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?

[klia]

You may be right about GW not dropping the you must take away a deep and meaningful lesson anvil on viewers' heads. I resent the hell out of that shit.