February 2008 Archives

My senior seminar instructor frequently references "The Prestige" in class-- or rather, the way a magician shows you he has nothing physically up his sleeves, and the way the audience doesn't really want to know the secret behind the "magic" or illusions. The audience just wants to be fooled, to be entertained.

Are you not entertained? Did you watch the season premiere of Lost? Yes, I did. And I'm afraid this magician's illusion will not be ending anytime soon. Because we are here to be entertained, to be fooled. And despite my ranting about the carrot of Lost that's dangled in front of us, I still watch it... hehe.