Blooming Where I'm Planted!

I have been watching the television show “Medium” for many years now. As long as it’s been on the air as a matter of fact. I even recall the very first show!

For those of you like my friend Ash, who is televisionally challenged, Medium is a show about our favorite psychic/medium, Allison Dubois, and her amazing dream life that leads, on a constant basis, to the capture and arrest of all the bad people residing in Arizona and sometimes further. Her character is actually based on a real woman, which I think is the coolest part of the whole damn thing!

So anyway… I’m sitting on my bed last night watching a rerun on the Fa La La La Lifetime Network (LOL) and Allison is going through her usual turmoil as she tries to decipher a dream that doesn’t make much sense while trying to convince her husband, Joe, her boss, the District Attourney, and her friend/peer/colleague Detective Scanlin that everyone is in grave danger.

Then her husband goes on and on about how sometimes a dream is just a dream and maybe she doesn’t know everything after all etc etc. Her boss goes on and on about how a dream isn’t evidence and how he doesn’t see how he can do anything based on what she’s told him. He finds it unbelievable and tells her that when she has something concrete, she should come back and talk to him. Detective Scanlin usually just balks in disbelief and cracks jokes and makes smart assed remarks at her expense.

This is the make believe life of Mrs. Allison Dubois.

Here’s the thoughts I had while watching….

How totally irritating would it be if you had dreams all the time that ALWAYS came true, even if you couldn’t understand them at the time. And when you had said dreams and then tried to warn the appropriate people of the impending doom, they always blew you off and didn’t believe you until the last second when it all comes together and you become a hero again?

I don’t think I could stay married to a man who doubted every word I said when I’ve been proven to be right 95+% of the time. How infuriating would it be to be doing the job you were actually hired for, and then have to argue with your boss on a regular basis about your current and past accuracies?

I know, I know… it’s only television. It’s not real.

How do they get away with it though? How do they put such ridiculous scenarios on TV on a constant basis and get so many millions of people to constantly swallow it. As much as I’ve always loved Medium, I think I may actually be finishing up my obsession with it now. The only things on the show that ever change is the bad guys and the victims. Everything else from the conversations to the detective work to the constant disbelief is exactly the same.

Maybe I’ll get lucky and a producer for the show will happen upon my blog, and decide that I’m 100% right and change the layout of the show forever. I can see my name in the credits already!!

HA! A girl can dream, right :)

I hope you’re having a wonderful Monday so far. I sure am. I’m getting my daily exercise as I type this! I built myself a little wooden jiggy that fits on the front of my treadmill and actually holds my laptop so I can walk at 3mph and type a post to all you fantastic people at the same time.

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