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My new article at Flashbak remembers the cult-TV series that featured "fear" as a weapon.
Here's a snippet and the url ( http://flashbak.com/culture-of-fear-six-times-that-fear-was-a-deadly-weapon-on-sci-fi-tv-31111/ )
"According
to an online article in Wired
Magazine published on August 24, 2012, Darpa -- the advanced research division
of the Pentagon -- was developing the idea of fear “as a weapon” in future wars or other military conflicts.
But
science fiction TV was way ahead of reality in this particular case.
Fear
had been used as a potent weapon by TV villains as far back as the year 1964.
With
that fact in mind, here are six occasions in cult-TV history when “fear” was
weaponized to harm the innocent."
John interesting subject. Glad to see Space:1999 "War Games" was included.
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Love the Space 1999 episode!! In V the series there was the particule beam triax in episode 2. A spaceship which could vaporize an entire moon. It was on it's way to los Angeles. Very impressive!!
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