Where's the Mystery?

Tonight's The Ghost Whisperer was the first of a two-part episode. It's the big season finale. I would imagine that they were hoping to tell a good story, to please their viewers and get them to stick around for next season, or at least part II of this episode.

They blew it.

They spent 45 minutes setting up this big mystery, with clues and signs and mysterious ghosts, trying to keep you guessing about what big event was about to happen.

Which would have been great, and good storytelling,
IF THE MORONS HADN'T RUINED IT BY REVEALING THE BIG EVENT IN THE COMMERCIALS!!!

What's the point of spending so much effort to tell a good story and set up a good mystery if they're going to spoil it like that? It's like telling the punchline before the setup for a joke. It's not funny.

Some moronic marketdroid must not have had the talent to put together a trailer for the episode without giving away the ending. He or she should be fired. Then shot. Then lost at sea. Then do that to all the other marketdroids who have no talent.

TV execs put irritating logos on-screen, and ads for other shows, and make commercial breaks worse and worse, and they give away the endings of stories, and then they wonder why people don't watch their shows as much as they used to? The mystery is how they keep their jobs.

But hey... it's only TV.


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