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Dr. Science (1987)
Wonderfully, Engagingly Stupid Fun!
Damn, I loved this show! It's one of those happy productions aimed at kids (tweens, mostly) but also great for adults with a quirky sense of humor and fun. The "science" is preposterous, of course, but that's the whole point!
Back when these were airing I never imagined that there could possibly be people who were so ludicrously gullible that they'd actually believe and even promulgate such utterly stupid pseudo-scientific notions, but then came the web. David Icke? Millions of new Flat-Earthers? The Dr. Science show is vastly more credible (and entertaining) than these cretinous yahoos!
I recorded a few episodes from TV back in the 1980's, but I didn't have the technology to digitize them until after the video quality had considerably degraded. I tried my best to clean up and enhance them, but the results were still pretty poor.
But I don't care -- I delight in watching them anyway! They're a fine cure for a blue mood, or if you just want to laugh.
Thanks enormously to the cast, especially Merle Kessler, the main writer.
K-PAX (2001)
Cheap, ham-fisted, non-credible "hints" ruin this completely
This would have been an enjoyable film if it had not been for the ludicrous, ham-fisted "hints" which overwhelmingly forced viewers to conclude prot essentially HAD to be an alien. The film shows prot easily and quickly "schooling" the best astronomers in the world in 20 seconds flat, complete with super-brilliant hand drawings and equations to prove his point to the awed scientists (not that he and his silly drawings wouldn't be laughed out of the place by any real-world astronomer, but still). You can't do that kind of thing and leave any room for the delights of ambiguity.
Over and over, the film FORCES the viewer to reject the mental illness hypothesis, leaving all genuine uncertainty and ambiguity logically closed off, even though that's the only credible explanation. But that's the only way the film would have been enjoyable! Also, any scientifically educated viewer would immediately see that prot's denial of Einsteinian limitations and his references to tachyons are totally without merit since prot and Bess decidedly have mass. Thus, no educated viewer could credit prot's claims, even though the film FORCES everyone to believe he's actually an alien.
Boo! What a waste!