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Supernatural.
Not the most scientific of shows, no. And I'm willing to go with them on the 'facts' about the supernatural - what werewolves really look like, how you actually kill a vampire, etc.
But what bothers me is when, even after I've suspended my disbelief and accept the 'rules' of their world, they deviate from them. Oh, it's rarely a huge, glaring error, it's the little things.
The devil's in the details, if you pardon my pun.
I was brushing my hair today, and while emptying my hairbrush I realized that tangle mat of hair was, in effect, my 'remains.' (For those of you not familiar with the show, they destroy ghosts by salting and burning the remains - all of the remains. Even a lock of hair can create a ghost, and there have been many episodes where they've had to hunt down bits of a body... which also brings up the rather unpleasant idea of organ donation and what would happen in that case... anyway, on issue at a time). I've been shedding 200+ little bits of 'remains' ever day, not to mention bits of skin and things surgically removed (you never see them hunting down a foreskin or a preserved organ taken pre-death, at least I haven't yet!).
Okay, you say, maybe it only counts as 'remains' if it was on the body at death. Still there's the pesky detail of a funeral home brushing hair (do they incinerate it? I can't imagine, it's not a biohazard) and yes, eventually the hair would decompose, but...
And yet, that (by their own storyline) is most definitely not the case! There was a ghost of a girl preserved in her doll, which had hair made of her own hair (apparently that was a 'thing' at the time). And the girl had her doll long before her death, so the hair was taken pre-death. Which brings us back to the matter of the hair you shed every day.
In your hairbrush. When you get your hair cut. Perhaps in a wig or donated to the place that makes hairmats to soak up oil spills (which I'm going to guess really slows down the decomposition process...).
It's just not as simple as they make it out to be, digging up a grave and torching the body (on that note, man are they good, neat, grave diggers! Fast, too, with just a shovel!).
In other nit-picky news, they showed the Impala with an impossible Kansas license plate in a recent (for me) episode. I know why they do it, but it was annoying, anyway.
Not the most scientific of shows, no. And I'm willing to go with them on the 'facts' about the supernatural - what werewolves really look like, how you actually kill a vampire, etc.
But what bothers me is when, even after I've suspended my disbelief and accept the 'rules' of their world, they deviate from them. Oh, it's rarely a huge, glaring error, it's the little things.
The devil's in the details, if you pardon my pun.
I was brushing my hair today, and while emptying my hairbrush I realized that tangle mat of hair was, in effect, my 'remains.' (For those of you not familiar with the show, they destroy ghosts by salting and burning the remains - all of the remains. Even a lock of hair can create a ghost, and there have been many episodes where they've had to hunt down bits of a body... which also brings up the rather unpleasant idea of organ donation and what would happen in that case... anyway, on issue at a time). I've been shedding 200+ little bits of 'remains' ever day, not to mention bits of skin and things surgically removed (you never see them hunting down a foreskin or a preserved organ taken pre-death, at least I haven't yet!).
Okay, you say, maybe it only counts as 'remains' if it was on the body at death. Still there's the pesky detail of a funeral home brushing hair (do they incinerate it? I can't imagine, it's not a biohazard) and yes, eventually the hair would decompose, but...
And yet, that (by their own storyline) is most definitely not the case! There was a ghost of a girl preserved in her doll, which had hair made of her own hair (apparently that was a 'thing' at the time). And the girl had her doll long before her death, so the hair was taken pre-death. Which brings us back to the matter of the hair you shed every day.
In your hairbrush. When you get your hair cut. Perhaps in a wig or donated to the place that makes hairmats to soak up oil spills (which I'm going to guess really slows down the decomposition process...).
It's just not as simple as they make it out to be, digging up a grave and torching the body (on that note, man are they good, neat, grave diggers! Fast, too, with just a shovel!).
In other nit-picky news, they showed the Impala with an impossible Kansas license plate in a recent (for me) episode. I know why they do it, but it was annoying, anyway.
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