Which are the best fictions (not necessarely Sci-F) in literature (including comics), movies and tv, which managed to succeed in creating an entertaining story, yet escaping from the cliché that the supernatural is blatantly true, and skeptics are in denial?
A few ones that I barely remember:
I think some seasons of Scooby Doo fit in that category for children; although I've always found it somewhat boring and pretictable ("let's split; me, Daphne and Velma will go that way, and you and Scooby go the other way", I think that something like that happened in all episodes), and to get worse, in the following seasons the supernatural became real. Fortunately it did not became significantly less boring.
I barely remember of a movie, probably from the late 80s, that was somewhat Scooby-Dooian in the good sense, although I think that the explanations were not the more scientifical possible (although natural). I remember of a holographic ring that was made to someone think that him or herself were a ghost or that it was a ghost ring, and that's all I remember. It was somehow made by mirrors with the real ring hidden under a glass and being "holographed" right above itself.
More recently, I've also watched one episode of another Scooby-Dooian series (live action, not animated) whose name I do not remember, but there was a somewhat cute girl in a motorcycle who was giving all the natural explanations, which seemed to be the real explanation, and that was what everybody concluded. But at the very end, part of the phenomena happened in a way that did not quite fit her explanations. I first interpreted it as something just to left an remnant mystery, but without deeply implying that the supernatural explanation was right. But some people told me that that series is in fact in a middle point between the "skepticals are in denial" and "the skepticals are right"; the skepticals seem to be right, but just because the real supernatural does not give any clue.
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A few ones that I barely remember:
I think some seasons of Scooby Doo fit in that category for children; although I've always found it somewhat boring and pretictable ("let's split; me, Daphne and Velma will go that way, and you and Scooby go the other way", I think that something like that happened in all episodes), and to get worse, in the following seasons the supernatural became real. Fortunately it did not became significantly less boring.
I barely remember of a movie, probably from the late 80s, that was somewhat Scooby-Dooian in the good sense, although I think that the explanations were not the more scientifical possible (although natural). I remember of a holographic ring that was made to someone think that him or herself were a ghost or that it was a ghost ring, and that's all I remember. It was somehow made by mirrors with the real ring hidden under a glass and being "holographed" right above itself.
More recently, I've also watched one episode of another Scooby-Dooian series (live action, not animated) whose name I do not remember, but there was a somewhat cute girl in a motorcycle who was giving all the natural explanations, which seemed to be the real explanation, and that was what everybody concluded. But at the very end, part of the phenomena happened in a way that did not quite fit her explanations. I first interpreted it as something just to left an remnant mystery, but without deeply implying that the supernatural explanation was right. But some people told me that that series is in fact in a middle point between the "skepticals are in denial" and "the skepticals are right"; the skepticals seem to be right, but just because the real supernatural does not give any clue.
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