{"id":13501,"date":"2010-12-17T22:34:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-18T06:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2010\/12\/17\/13501.html"},"modified":"2010-12-17T22:34:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-18T06:34:00","slug":"the-problem-with-tv-conspiraci","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2010\/12\/17\/the-problem-with-tv-conspiraci\/","title":{"rendered":"The problem with TV conspiracies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Nice quote:<\/p>\n

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The problem with all-powerful conspiracies on serialized TV shows is that, inevitably, they have to be defeated by regular people, and that can't help but make the conspiracies look just a little bit silly.<\/p>\n

—Darren Franich, Entertainment Weekly<\/cite> recap for episode 5<\/a> of The Event<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

While I'm here, an unrelated bonus quote from a later recap, added to this entry a few minutes later:<\/p>\n

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So the government is now blaming Flight 514's disappearance on “Brazilian Separatists.” (I like to visualize Blake Sterling pulling that card out of a “Random Terrorist Group” box, right next to “Finnish Anarchists” and “Communist Penguins.”)<\/p>\n

—Darren Franich, Entertainment Weekly<\/cite> recap for episode 8<\/a> of The Event<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nice quote: The problem with all-powerful conspiracies on serialized TV shows is that, inevitably, they have to be defeated by…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commonplace-book","category-television"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}