Echoes of the Mind's Eye

This may be old news to everyone (video was posted last november), but I just came accross this tonight...both exciting and depressing at the same time.

View if you are into spoilers....

I wasn't going to do it. I was going to refuse to watch the new Knight Rider. It was as cheesy as a 1980's show could get. However, I find myself actually excited about it being on tonight. It's sponsered by Ford, so the car is a Mustang. They are running Focus commmercials on the website, with KITT being jealous of the Ford Focus that Mike was driving. I thought, "Okay It might be bearable, seems kind of cute." Then, the last commercial, they did it, they had me..."dun da dadadada dun dadadadada" The music...the 1980's midi theme music for the original series. I got shivers. I'm a sick, sick, person.

I taped a new show last week, just watched it. Fairly interesting, it falls into one of the normal medical or legal plot-lines for most dramedies. Eli is a lawyer, part of a big law firm in San Francisco. He is just a run of the mill corporate attorney until he starts getting visions which lead him to more humane cases and help guide him to win his legal battles. The visions are a creative gimmick, I got worried when they had to explain the reason for the visions medically, but the show goes back on track with help of an asian guru who encourages Eli's faith.

It's nice to see a shoe with such a positive spin, encouraging the idea of faith is great. Also, one of Eli's first clients was a single mother with an autistic child (now why would I be interested??) . The case is a lawsuit against a big bad pharmaceutical company because their vaccine caused her son's autism. The boy with autism was a fair interpretation of the symptoms I have seen, although possibly overblown a bit...Stacking objects is a "thing" with many children with autism, but this boy not only stacked blocks, he built an entire castle in his mother's living room--she basically let him take over her home with thousands of blocks. Can we say enabling?

Anyway, the show looks good. It's a definite welcome with the lack of anything else new on the horizon (although I am looking forward to Jericho).  I hope Eli Stone can keep it up creatively.