It's yet another James Randi intro. There are probably about 50 such short intro videos to his work in investigating fake psychics. It's obviously a good episode because he's a very interesting person and it's always nice to see how fakesters are doing their tricks and how they respond to his investigations. But if you have seen a bit about it you know it all. You can guess what happens in this episode and you already know what Uri Geller scenes feature in this episode because you have seen them 20 times before by now, we are not in 1993 anymore.
James Randi in this episode spends most of the time in Russia investigating the new fakesters post USSR. And there are a lot of them. They are also surprisingly good. I was very impressed by the 2 women at the end, if Randi had given them just a bit more info about the person in the photo I bet you they would be able to tell you eerie specific details about him. They are not just random charlatans. These are utterly professional charlatans who are very good at their job.
Unfortunately many of the investigations and tricks Randi presents are a bit hard to figure out. In USA he's in a class and they only show the end of the tricks not everything from start till finish. In Russia they also do the same type of cuts just jumping to points and the translation is lacking and often not even there. The episode kinda jumps all over the place never quite presenting the full story about anything and jumping from person to person. This alone really should make you want to seek a longer intro. This episode should have been 2 hours long at least. There are too many details here they just skipped. But it's a good intro to his work and it never gets boring. Very good episode.
I did want to enjoy it a bit more. But at the end this is about charlatans. This gives the episode a negative energy to it. You always feel like cheaters and liars are getting TV time here while James Randi really doesn't have anything positive to replace their ideas with. He's disproving not proving. You need to prepare yourself to be really irritated by some of these assholes telling people they just cured their cancer or other such things.
James Randi in this episode spends most of the time in Russia investigating the new fakesters post USSR. And there are a lot of them. They are also surprisingly good. I was very impressed by the 2 women at the end, if Randi had given them just a bit more info about the person in the photo I bet you they would be able to tell you eerie specific details about him. They are not just random charlatans. These are utterly professional charlatans who are very good at their job.
Unfortunately many of the investigations and tricks Randi presents are a bit hard to figure out. In USA he's in a class and they only show the end of the tricks not everything from start till finish. In Russia they also do the same type of cuts just jumping to points and the translation is lacking and often not even there. The episode kinda jumps all over the place never quite presenting the full story about anything and jumping from person to person. This alone really should make you want to seek a longer intro. This episode should have been 2 hours long at least. There are too many details here they just skipped. But it's a good intro to his work and it never gets boring. Very good episode.
I did want to enjoy it a bit more. But at the end this is about charlatans. This gives the episode a negative energy to it. You always feel like cheaters and liars are getting TV time here while James Randi really doesn't have anything positive to replace their ideas with. He's disproving not proving. You need to prepare yourself to be really irritated by some of these assholes telling people they just cured their cancer or other such things.
