Comments | speaktothevoid: Time for an update ;)

speaktothevoid

Time for an update ;)

Feb 05, 2008 16:41

Hi my dear little readers... it is can be update tiemz nao plz ( Read more... )

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mr_squeaky February 5 2008, 16:30:32 UTC

Hmm - I dislike the Uri Geller show even though I like magic tricks. But when you can instantly see through about 50% of them , something is wrong.

It does not help that they take the "OMG - it is all supernatural" part of the acts a tad bit too far.

And I believe I should change my avvy to something less wintery ;)

speaktothevoid February 5 2008, 19:57:19 UTC

I don't mind being able to figure out the effect, as long as it's a good show - y'know, looks cool, well thought out, makes the audience think. I liked lots of effects in the show - interesting takes on old stuff, like the heart-stopping in this show or the knives thing in the first one, as well as original stuff like the arrow and the mental link thing. The ones that don't do well tend to be voted off anyway, but as Uri said, it's good entertainment ( ... )

mr_squeaky February 5 2008, 21:02:16 UTC

I don't mind being able to figure out the effect, as long as it's a good show - y'know, looks cool, well thought out, makes the audience think.

And that was my problem: it didn't. Being able to actually see the strings, noticing someones blindfold is see-through and conversations that directly reveal the mentalist was present when the test subject made his "secret" drawing... these things are amateurish and take away the feeling of "magic" and extreme competence I adore.

The only ones stressing the supernatural part are actually the hosts - if you listen carefully, you'll see that neither Uri nor the performers straight out claim supernatural abilities.

Well, up to november last year Uri Geller would sue anyone who dared to suggest his acts were not based on paranormal powers ;) But true - he has admittted he is an entertainer now. Pity the studio has not.

speaktothevoid February 5 2008, 22:32:53 UTC

There's not been any 'secret drawing' things on the Dutch version yet (except the one drawn by the mentalist himself and guessed by the subject). And if they did use stooges, that's not something most self-respecting mentalists would do. Too easy. So I suppose those people would be voted off. Showing the gaffed blindfold wrong - that's stupid, but being in the audience last time, I didn't see any of that, and the blindfolds were pretty close to where I sat. Could've been a camera placed where it shouldn't have been. I never saw any strings in the Mental Carlo performance on TV (in which other people claim they did), so if they were noticable, they weren't very much so. In the show that I attended, there were some effects I honestly couldn't explain, and some that I could, but that were very well done anyway. I liked it. If you think the participating mentalists suck, well, don't watch the show anymore then. I thought many of them were pretty good (talking about just the Dutch show here though, I haven't seen the other versions), so I' ( ... )