Who finds these kinds of characters interesting? I like sci-fi as much as any geek, but these people are horrendous, sad and thoroughly grim. Why would anybody want people like this in their living rooms, or worse, in their minds for an hour? This stuff goes in, especially with television's fluorescing CRT and wide screen tech, -which is not the same as computer flat screens which flicker many thousands of times per second. Plasma screens and CRTs flicker between 60 and 500 times per second and this directly affects the visual cortex, (which is why it's hard to remember the advert you just watched twenty seconds ago); EEG scans demonstrate that staring at a CRT screen puts the viewer into a light hypnotic state, where we dissociate and any information which goes in does so in a very different way than regular images and sounds viewed in a normal state of awareness.
These grim, sickening stories presented to us in "Paradox" sit with the viewer through the night and the next day, affecting behavior out in the real world, thus changing the shape of real world.
The show, purely from a story and construction perspective is somewhat interesting in its posits about time and fatalism, and it is especially interesting that numerous such story ideas are being explored right now as a culture. But I'm not willing to explore it with such dysfunctional, depressed and angry people who make me feel sick to my stomach.
Sorry. "Paradox" is a write-off for me.
These grim, sickening stories presented to us in "Paradox" sit with the viewer through the night and the next day, affecting behavior out in the real world, thus changing the shape of real world.
The show, purely from a story and construction perspective is somewhat interesting in its posits about time and fatalism, and it is especially interesting that numerous such story ideas are being explored right now as a culture. But I'm not willing to explore it with such dysfunctional, depressed and angry people who make me feel sick to my stomach.
Sorry. "Paradox" is a write-off for me.