2001connections-article0008 Cheap, low-budget fake space aliens on TV shows.

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2001connections-article0008
Cheap, low-budget fake space aliens on TV shows.

I’m fed up with these third-rate nickel-and-dime imitation extraterrestrial beings featured on futuristic films and TV shows. Who do the producers pretend they are trying to fool? Perhaps just the youngest and most impressionable among us viewers. Add some pieces of plastic trim, colouring, whatever, to a human actor, and there you have a character who supposedly originates from outer space. What utter nonsense!! Another one of my big beefs regarding these made-up characters is that they usually seem to speak real good English, even if they have never visited Earth before. Are we to believe that other populated planets offer Earth-language courses, mostly English, to their inhabitants?!?! And it just happens to be very common, mainstream English. Rarely ever any kind of far-fetched accents or regional dialects, which do exist on our planet but seem to vanish, inexplicably, as soon as our English-speaking space travellers from Earth depart into outer space and begin to interact with other worlds and civilizations. Clearly, the producers intend to take us for fools as long as we agree to be taken for fools. A few of the more popular TV sci-fi series, past and present, are actually on my personal embargo list. I simply refuse to watch these shows. After having viewed 1 or 2 episodes, I found that the supposed space aliens look and behave way too much like average English-speaking humans.

Perhaps a rating system should be implemented to rank the intelligence level of any cinematographic production. Let enlightened viewers decide whether or not they really wish to watch dumbed-down shows. A linear index or a graph chart could serve well to indicate just how gullible and goofy an audience a specific program is aiming for. At the opposite end of this scale, an intellectually-advanced presentation might carry a “smart alert”, to attract highly intelligent viewers but also to discourage a simple Joe from watching because he could end up dazed and confused by any sophisticated subject matter. Sort of like fitting the right pair of shoes to the right person.
A rating system could be socially beneficial, in matching types of audiences to types of shows. Producers should refrain from treating serious adult viewers in the same manner they might regard a bunch of kids or kid-level viewers who believe whatever they watch in cartoons or cartoon-like shows.

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