Have any of you seen this yet? There have been two episodes of Past Life on Fox that have aired to date.
I find it interesting, yet am guarded in my praise. Like all other supernatural shows so far, it is over the top, and heavy on trauma imagery and exaggeration. I wish it wasn't that way. Medium, and Ghost Whisperer (which we now refer to as "Ghost Boobs" in honor of "Melinda's outlandish attire and the constant push up and out boobage the show seems to favor), fell of my watch list as they just kept getting darker and putting in my ghoulish imagery. It just isn't that way. It doesn't help the general public get used to the ideas and adjust to them, it feeds on the fear of them. Past Life looks like it will follow in their footsteps.
Not all regression, or past life views are scary and traumatic. In fact, I would venture a guess that most are not. Most, in fact can be very "third person" and non emotional; just glimpses of a familiar time, event or place.
I wish for a day when these phenomenon will be portrayed accurately and without the hype, fear, gore and drama. I mean, aren't the very natures of mediumship and past life regression interesting enough in and of themselves? And would we be less interested if there was a range of portrayal that didn't all focus on Hollywood's need to bombard us with negative fast-flash images?
I'll give the show some time and see where it heads. I like the two main characters. They are solving crimes based on past life information from clients. That's pretty interesting.
One of the stereotypes it has addressed for me (and I've HAD past life glimpses) is the idea that one could have past life experience that actually ties to the present day (ie, I could have past life information come through and there could still be someone living from that past life, that could verify it). I used to think of it just in terms of far far past lives.
Give it a watch and tell me what YOU think.
Here's a preview clip:
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