i am wondering why i am badly missing the days when MGB [magandang gabi bayan] had addictive halloween specials. the type where i am on the verge of virtual addiction and moral and spiritual doubt. i miss them because, first of all, they scared me as a child. and another, because TV shows these days, like Imbestigador, Jessica Soho and XXX, are just too proud to create a whole episode focusing on the supernatural.

it bothers me to think that the media has a certain sense of intellectual pride. one, because they no longer choose to feature issues that MGB once bravely presented, like witch craft, spiritual beings, white ladies. of course, it is right to say that such stories had been used and reused ad nausaeum in cheap or grand TV productions, thus nullifying the need [or use] of making others like them. however, when i say recreate shows or episodes on the supernatural, i do not mean copy materials of the past for the sake of having something new fed to the viewing public. what i mean is to continue our [okay, let me say it safely] cultural tradition of listening to supernatural tales and be spooked by them.

Imbestigador irked me, primarily, because it conveyed this air of intellectual quasi-omniscience. instead of what it claimed, that it investigated magic, the paranormal and the parapsychology, it merely basked itself into the glory of what it knows. imbestigador forged pictures, photoshopped images that seemed to have captured white ladies and ghosts in it, showed them to people, freaked them out then later on revealed to them that everything was an intentional hoax.

i am appalled by this act of trickery. i do not see the sense of 'soliciting their opinions and observing how they will react'. what i merely saw was a huge grin on the concept of the paranormal, an attempt of painting the supernatural as a big joke, another feeble attempt to laugh at man's devotion to what he does not know but he pretends to know. when in fact, it was imbestigador itself that pretended that they know what they were about to get from 'creating' their own sense of the supernatural.