I guess it depends on the type of quarts perhaps. Maybe some quartz causes hallucinations of dead people, and some cause hallucinations of great and faithful politicians. Makes sense. :-)   See 9 other replies

So mass hallucinations of DEAD people are unbelievable side effects of quartz, but if they'd all hallucinated LIVE people, that would've been ok? :-)   See 9 other replies

Yeah, but were they dead? No. So that proves my point. ;-)   See 9 other replies

Hey, I grew up in Arkansas, a state FULL of quartz, and we mass hallucinated that Bill Clinton was a great leader and Hillary Rodham a good wife. ;-)   See 9 other replies

You know, Charles, I really can't stand it when people say things like "Sorry, if you can't stomach it, don't watch it." It's like, what, if someone says they didn't like an episode, that they should just stop watching the show??I mean, could you be any more insecure??I criticize a show that you like, and you're, "If you don't like it, then leave it." There's no room for honest criticism? For people sharing their opinions?Tell you what: why don't you stop being so insecure and accept that not everyone's gonna like what you like, and some may even say so. And, no, that doesn't mean that they don't like the show altogether. It just means that some people might not like an episode that you like. Deal with it.Sheesh.   See 9 other replies

Jos: OK, I've been thinking more about this, and why I had a problem with this episode, but not others. I have no problem with magic mirrors, magic swords, and the like; but I have a problem with the concept that a foundation full of quartz would make people hallucinate dead people. And here's why.Magic mirrors and magic swords are made-up -- fantasy. And so I don't try to correlate them with reality. I accept them as fantasy and move on. But when someone tries to tie a fantasy concept to reality (that quartz could cause such an effect) I have problems with it. But if they had said, on the other hand, that the quartz mine had once been used by Merlin the Magician; and that he had cast a spell on the quartz which caused it cause people to see dead people when the weather was right; then I'd have no problem with it, because it would be pure fantasy.But when something leaves the realm of "pure fantasy" and tries to make a quasi-scientific link (that quartz, just in its natural state, could cause such things) I have a problem with it, and consider it nonsense.So that's why I had a problem with this episode, but not the ones with the magic mirror or the magic sword. (It's also, BTW, why I have a problem with the show "Fringe," because it too tries to meld fantasy with real science.)   See 9 other replies