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Dave,

Given the proclivities of the Billdo and Shrillery cheered on demodum audiances, I suspect soap opera is a given for marketing demographics these days. But some of it seems like a real dumb egregious stretch in this series.

On the other hand, given the purported incestuous ingrownness of the puppet masters behind the scenes, maybe it's more fitting than we'd like to think.

Just a Spielberg personal interesting thing? Wish I felt so. Maybe. Or maybe it's to make money.

But it seems to me it comes out amidst a markedly above average MASS of program stuff of similar ilk. Why? Why now?

Also, If this is just Spielberg's personal interest thing--then he's more than interested, he's obsessively interested. This is a virtual orgy of speculation, puzzle-piece timed release, government disinformation and/or whatever such.

So far, I haven't seen anything all that new. Whether there will be anything all that new before the end of the series remains to be seen.

I think the business of the hybrids having certain "powers" is interesting. Not sure how much of that is poetic license; how much puzzle cues and how much disinformation. I think it's mostly entertainment. An interesting, nice touch in spots. The little girl looks all set to be a major force.

The government types have certainly been painted as plenty evil. Sadly, given certain factions of the government a la Billdo, Shrillery et al, their evilness is too plausible. But these characters are almost black and white levels of black--broad stereotypic brush-strokes. Having the tall likeable gov researcher sexually involved with the daughter of the son of the real donkey orifice was . . . a stretch . . . and rather unnecessary, to my mind. Having the daughter murder her father . . . while plausible given Billdo and Shrillery values . . . was also a stretch, to me. But if it's mostly intertainment, anything goes.

I suppose if it's truly perceived to be a major global security issue, it could be construed that anything truly goes. I don't think it's a winning strategy to become the devil to fight the devil, however.

Tim Snodgrass evidently had a trip to Heaven at a youngish age. Evidently in a saucer sort of craft. He is evidently preparing a report on UFO's saying for now merely that not all are devils, not all are angels. Should be interesting.

Also interesting--his being convinced that the big meteor was destroyed by an angelic UFO supposedly sparing the globe of the predicted 9.0+ quake.

Stay tuned. Given what--2 more nights?, the ending 4 hours should be at least as "dramatic."

I don't necessarily think ET's would be friendly. If they have been here for ages, it would be an indication that they are friendly, but if they have the ability to warp the dimension of time, then maybe they just got here, in spite of having appeared in the middle ages or earlier. Then their intentions could be anything.

The government types have certainly been painted as plenty evil. Sadly, given certain factions of the government ...

After Waco, who would be surprised by the characters in "Taken"? In both cases, the government sees itself as defending the country. The Max Headroom character in "Taken" is just a typical curious scientist, one who enjoys seeing hamsters explode in microwave ovens. Reminds me of the carelessly evil scientists in E.T.