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Consider the Feb. 17 episode of CSI. A form complaint letter available at the PTC website describes the episode, and it's icky stuff. The plot is about infantilism, a sexual fetish that involves adults wearing diapers and suckling at women's breasts. But the letter includes a curious argument: "COMPLAINANT urges the Commission to take notice of the high ratings for this episode of CSI ratings [sic]--reportedly viewed in 30.72 million households. Given its relatively early broadcast time [9 p.m. E.T.], it was without question viewed by millions of children...
WHAT ABOUT WHEN YOU ISSUE A WARNING AND THEN NOTHING HAPPENS? Sometimes the precaution stops the plot. It is like a vaccine. If I tell you to take a vaccine to protect yourself and you take it and nothing happens, do you say, "Well, I shouldn't have taken the vaccine because I never got sick...
Unsurprisingly, the film grinds itself to a halt when Rachel leaves to track down Samara’s natural mother (a laughable cameo by Sissy Spacek), seeking advice on ways to deal with sons possessed by bizarre Japanese video-demons. While the plot tries hard to get back on track, the last half-hour is only notable for Watts’s ultra-sassy heroine moment (“I’m not your fuckin’ mommy!”) and Nakata’s nice handling of some scenes that in less capable hands could have ended...
Here’s the premise: after the end of Chabon’s novel’s plot, Kavalier and Clay drop the Escapist project and leave the comic in the hands of other writers. The creation bounces around from firm to firm—but each company that takes on the project soon finds itself filing for bankruptcy. Perhaps there is something inherently flawed in the idea of a character who is a cut-rate Houdini knockoff representing an organization called The Golden Key battling the evil forces of The Iron Chain...
...problem: the anthology’s meta-setup focuses on a continuously unsuccessful comic strip. So the comics cannot successfully match their respective eras’ tones—or else, the Escapist’s incarnations might be financially viable, and the project’s plot would be ruined...