I'm obliged to post again.  I was away from my television for almost two months, but last night I saw Eleventh Hour, CBS's new X Files, which like Fox's new X Files features a scientist guy (except non-mad; a real professional) and a scrawny blonde FBI agent, and together they "solve" "scientific" "mysteries".  It appears to be almost exactly the same show as Fringe except with no romance and a little less comedy (actually it's most exactly like CBS's own Numb3rs).  The relationship to physical reality is slightly different -- instead of developing imaginary principles into impossible effects it seems more devoted to developing actual principles into impossible effects.

I've pretty much had it with the endless succession of the permutations of medicine and law so mainly I was bored (although Judd Nelson!  Haven't seen *him* in a while), but this one exchange got my attention as our justice/science authority duo cut the lock on somebody's storage-unit-like laboratory:

    Dr. Science:    Is this legal?
    Agent Blonde:    Please -- we've got the FBI and DARPA behind us; I think we can get the breaking and entering charges dropped.

So... if I've seen this precise argument for warrentless invasion TWICE now in watching single episodes of two shows, how many more times has it come up that I've missed?

 


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Beth D.
11/23/2008 09:07

And how many times does DARPA come up these days?

I don't know, man, this sitcomization (especially in a "drama") of damaged civil liberties is *exactly* what happened to feminism and the ERA. Make some half-crack about the problem of equal pay or glass ceiling then show a gal being incompetent at a job or falling in love with the boss.

Creepy.

The next step is federal B&E/wiretapping on a very special episode of Blossom. Hannah Montana today, I guess.

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