Actually, that’s what I was trying to say. With my luck, it would be the hot Martian chick who would eat my brains.
So? They did Wizard of Earthsea, didn’t they? The “SF” genre is generally acknowledged to encompass everything from “hard” SF to sword-and-sorcery fantasy and everything in between – IOW, in everything you’ll find shelved in the SF section at the bookstore. And that includes stories about the “paranormal.”
True, but all they’re showing now is a guy claiming he went to Mars and is trying to sell us the rocks.
“And I can prove it, too! Look at Mars, there. Do you see me?”
“No…”
“Right! That’s because I came back!”
“Amazing!”
Actually, the praying mantis already has the “eat your boyfriend’s head while he’s f$#@ing you” mode of reproduction down.
I’m sure Derren didn’t intend to claim it was original - it’s just the sort of thing he does well.
MAybe not, and I’m inclined to agree with you. However, some viewers might leap to this conclusion, especially since the end credits began with ‘Routines devised by Luke Jermay, Andy Nyman, Derren Brown’. Incidentally, I know these three, and Luke did once say that he likes the Dope! So if you’re reading Luke… hi! And well done to all three, it was a great show.
The same thing all those shows about ghosts and ESP are doing on The Learning Channel, the Discovery Channel, and the Travel Channel - crapping up the joint. These shows must be the video equivalent of cockroaches: squash one, and three others pop up in its place. They’re seemingly unkillable. I suppose the cable channels like them because they’re cheap to produce.
(And a slight, but related, hijack: what the hell does poker have to do with travel? It seems the World Poker Tour airs on the Travel Channel every other night! I guess it’s too much to ask that cable channels actually live up to their names and air appropriate content.)