My Single Mom Life

Yeah, I just sat through ABC's new show Eli Stone, so I could see the special LOST content commercial, only to reach the website under heavy server use.

I sat through that crapfest just so I could see the supposed golden ticket, find 815.com stuff.
The show, Eli Stone, irked me.
Not just because it's trying to be all religious prophety and bring in the Christian viewers, but because it was crap.
Eli Stone hears and sees George Michael singing the song Faith, and connects the dots between and old girlfriend and what he's supposed to do now.
Which is help her win a case against a pharmaceutical company that uses a preservative in their vaccines which gave her son autism.
And he might be a prophet.

He ends up being diagnosed as having a brain aneurysm which can cause auditory and visual hallucinations, and could also go kablooey at any point and kill him, or he could live a long and happy life.
But Eli Stone has spoken to some Chinese guy who says there are supposed to be prophets in every generation, according to a conversation between Moses and God, and why not a lawyer?

So on one hand, the show is using science to prove Eli's behavior, and on the other, we have faith as the reason for his behavior.
He might be a prophet.
The old science verses faith argument in a tv show.
But so far, it's a wee bit heavy on the faith side. The only science we have is the brain aneurysm discovery. Everything else has been George Michael singing that song a dozen times, (shut the hell up!) and visions of his alcoholic father, climbing a mountain to dump ashes, and being told he's a prophet.

The teens gave up on the show 15 minutes in, and I stuck with it the entire hour.
I'll never do that again.
It's all about faith changing who you are, making you a better person because this mysterious thing comes over you and tells you that you have this greater purpose for a greater being kind of reason.
Not doing good for the sake of doing good, but because something tells you to do this good deed.
People can and will do what is right without being told by a higher power to do so. We do not have to have faith in some higher power above us, we can simply do good because we want to.
Just because Eli Stone is some big powered lawyer, doesn't mean he has to live the life of an asshole, and only start being a good person because George Michael is singing on his coffee table.
It's a completely ridiculous premise but ya know what?
It will do great because there are millions of people out there that have faith that someday some higher power will speak to them and give them a purpose too.
Creating your own purpose, doing your own good things, never enters their mind.