It's Not Supposed To Be Real!

Have you ever been watching tv program or a movie with a car chase, and then watched as the car magically burst into flames and exploded after a collision?  Sure, I think most of us have watched that scenario on a screen at some point.  When I see something like that, I, like many people, have the initial reaction to proclaim, "Cars don't really just blow up like that!"

Well, of course they don't.  And the television and movie producers aren't trying to maintain reality.  If they were trying to make it real, they'd go work for reality tv.

Sometimes, we need to take a moment and remember to take our entertainment at face value, as the simple entertainment that it is, rather than trying to force it to be reality or anything else other than what it is.  If you want reality, watch documentaries.  If you want something pretending to be reality, watch "reality" television.  But if you want to just be entertained, watch anything else and resist the urge to pick apart the specifics.