Image via WikipediaThere are no shortages of Paranormal shows on television today. Whether you are a fan of Sci-fi's Ghost Hunters, Travel channel's Ghost adventurers, or Discovery channels Ghost Lab, you will find plenty to keep you glued to your television set. There are many to choose from but it seems to be harder to stay interested season after season. The formula that drew you in, fades with the shows success and suddenly you find yourself turning the channel. You know the show has taken a bad turn when you start seeing "celebrity" guests ghost hunting. Especially when the celebrities happen to be a few dolled up ladies from a show about housewives. You've got to be kidding right? Say it isn't so. Increasingly rare is it to find one that keeps the original formula intact, in other words doesn't stray from what made the show a hit.
Many shows start off with humble beginnings just a few guys, a camera or two and some recorders to catch voices of the dead. You become hooked on the show at this point perhaps because a part of you can relate to the investigators. Just a couple of guys with flashlights trying to catch something tangible prowling around an old house, like so many you may have seen in your own town, that you'd just love to go snooping in.
A few season's later and you find yourself bored, maybe even a little let down? It dawns on you that you don't see a third of what the investigators claim they saw, and you can't hear half of what they claim they hear. The cameraman is following the investigator around, and the audience never gets a sight of anything in real time. You realize, you've watched a show for an hour that mostly consisted of investigators asking each other if the other "heard that". Is this a good use of your time? Furthermore, is it worth your time to watch?
The bottom line is, when the show loses it's original cast, expands and goes in different directions, and starts having "celebrity guest appearances", it's gone commercial. Then one has to question, whether anything you think you hear, or thought you saw was authentic, or manufactured for ratings. Of all the shows that are out there, Ghost Lab seems to be one that still operates on the original platform since day one. Hopefully this will always be the case.
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