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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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So a scene from Homeland describing the situation in Syria has gone viral and is being held up by some as an accurate portrayal of the aims of ISIS.
Now I think Homeland is a totally brilliant series and no doubt very well researched, but should we be worried that people are taking as fact a scene from a fictional programme? |
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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago
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Some of the recent fictional programmes have been pretty prescient. Homeland and Madam Secretary come to mind.
I don't take them as fact though, merely an indication of how someone has written a view of the world.
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Some of the recent fictional programmes have been pretty prescient. Homeland and Madam Secretary come to mind.
I don't take them as fact though, merely an indication of how someone has written a view of the world.
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For prescience, the pilot episode of a short-lived TV service called 'The Lone Gunmen' was truly frightening; given events 10 years later. |
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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago
Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound |
"Some of the recent fictional programmes have been pretty prescient. Homeland and Madam Secretary come to mind.
I don't take them as fact though, merely an indication of how someone has written a view of the world.
For prescience, the pilot episode of a short-lived TV service called 'The Lone Gunmen' was truly frightening; given events 10 years later. "
I didn't see that. Of course, prescience may just be the programme giving someone the idea...
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Some of the recent fictional programmes have been pretty prescient. Homeland and Madam Secretary come to mind.
I don't take them as fact though, merely an indication of how someone has written a view of the world.
For prescience, the pilot episode of a short-lived TV service called 'The Lone Gunmen' was truly frightening; given events 10 years later.
I didn't see that. Of course, prescience may just be the programme giving someone the idea...
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Yes, and that is something I've always wondered in that specific case; given it was a plot to crash commercial airliners into the WTC made ten years before it actually happened. |
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" Of course, prescience may just be the programme giving someone the idea...
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So if I make a film about Derby County getting promoted this season, then winning the Premier League & FA cup next season...  |
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Just bear in mind that if you are high average intelligence that most people won't be as bright as you. .
People easily get confused and also don't always think that deeply upon things - so arrive at some poor opinions too. |
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