ChrisC
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No, the concern is the way in which the details will be presented.
The show's description suggests that this is not going to be done in an honest and fair way.
Who are you saying 'no' to? You agree with me. I have/had that concern too. Unfortunately though I'm not happy with 'suggestion'. If I followed the 'suggested' route, I'd have a completely different opinion of Michael Jackson as an artist and person. MJ fans always seem like expert investigators, not satisfied with what they're told, they dig deep to the source and the facts and come up with their own opinions.
Does it really matter if it's honest or not? If there is truth or untruth? In my mind, one question stands above it all: would Michael want me, his fan, or any of us watch his autopsy, discuss and dissect its details? The answer to it is the answer to this programme. Even if it's perfectly honest and unbiased, showing it and watching it as an entertainment is in my book an act of disrespect to the person who is loved and admired.
Television can function as an educator. Television has the ability to inform and is instrumental in our recent evolution as humans. It's not merely an entertainer.
To the documentary itself, it was at times a very difficult watch, people have already commented in this thread as to the way the information was presented and slanted to present a particular, mostly negative, view. But I was delighted with a good number of the facts presented as well. Ultimately, I felt as though the 'last hours' were very pro-Murray and seemed to suggest that the prosecution case hinged on the theory that propofol would be present in the upper tube of Murray's makeshift drip. They stated that it wasn't and that the jury ignored it, following it with a baying mob of fervent MJ fans screaming 'burn in hell' and the likes as if they had some kind of influence on the jury's decision. This was hugely frustrating and completely misleading, frankly idiotic. And that's just ONE of the awful devices they used to manipulate the audience.
The whole thing felt very amateurishly put together. Why go to the bother of finding such a great lookalike of Murray and then use pictures of Jermaine mistakenly thinking it's Michael and then spell Michael's name wrong on screen, showing it as 'Micheal'. LOLZ. Idiots.