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Old 01-01-2006, 11:04 PM  
2HousePlague
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Yup, sad -- reminds me of this show I saw on KQED "The Future is Wild" -- they used quasi-science (more like just "sciencey" sounding words) as an excuse to make absurd animated movies of what animals MIGHT have been like if evolution had taken different turns than it did. Sure, the concept is interesting. But I had to walk away shaking my head in disgust at the sorry state of "Educational Television" when they started talking about the squibbons...



Get this, part squid, part gibbon, squibbons are spineless invertebrates that somehow swing from trees -- lol It's fun to speculate, -- I'm all for entertainment -- but I think this show violated an important division between the plausible and the fantastic -- all the more disturbing because this is a TV station many parents associate with quality programming.


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