Renner, Michael writes on 2 Nov 99,:
> Finally, I'm going to have to disagree with the parallel with Scooby. If
> I'm remember correctly -- a dicey proposition, that, as my daughter's
> Scooby Jones has faded a bit -- the "supernatural" mysteries in Scooby-Doo
> always turn out to be hoaxes. (Oops! Did I give it away?)
No, you didn't give it away. That was my point. In my childhood, mysteries and
private eye and police shows almost never validated paranormal claims. The fraud
was unmasked (literally, in the case of Scooby) in the end. Today, if paranormal
activity is presented on such a program, don't expect any debunking at the end. This
may be just a change in preferred genre from hard-boiled private eyes to
fantasy/everything but, if so, I think that says something (I don't claim to know
what)
about the direction we are moving.
BTW, thanks for changing the subject line as this has very little to do with the
original
thread. I haven't read the Harry Potter books and did not intend to denigrate them
but,
instead, to provide a related observation. In the end, it was probably not related
enough to use the same subject line. I am sorry for the confusion.
Rick
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