[jenlili]

Offerman's response that the thriller flicks are fun like a rollercoaster is fun sounds right on to me. I personally have no desire for that kind of action and won't ride a rollercoaster, though I've seen a couple slasher flicks, just for the dark comedy of it. I like the old ones. Because they're campy. Some of the cemetery scenes in Night of the Living Dead were filmed in my local cemetery. I didn't watch that movie until it was almost 40 years old and I lived 3000 miles away. But by then I found the movie hysterical.

I like some of the cop shows on TV. But what I watch them for is the human drama, the relationships among the coworkers, and the forensic stuff, the way they figure out things with their chemicals and computers and all that.

I don't know that I buy into that notion that TV shows and video games are making us immune to violence. I think that's wishful thinking. Like, if we eliminate cop shows, violence in our schools and streets would decrease.

But still there are some shows that are too creepy and I don't need those images in my mind and wish I hadn't seen them. What scares me is the supernatural stuff, the unexplainable. I never watched X Files. I did watch Twin Peaks...I just liked too many of the characters. But that show freaked me out...the wind blowing through the pines and the implication that something evil was lurking out there. Man that stuff was scary.