Instapundit alludes to Millennium:
JOHN VARLEY, CALL YOUR OFFICE! No, really, he should be demanding royalties from this guy: Ukraine rebel leader claims Flight MH17 was filled with already-dead bodies.
My review of the book here. And, yes, I’ve seen the movie. Three times.
There’s also LOST. Perhaps Putin is the Man in Black?
Remember when Lost was a cultural phenomenon? That ended quickly, did it not?
Frankly, I’m surprised they held it together as well as they did, at least at the beginning.
You can do a lot when you spin a lot of storylines out there that the user thinks there must be a resolution to. And quite often, the resolution if any will result in a lot of disappointment.
Just think what would have happened if the Galactica of Battlestar Galactica ever reached Earth. Galactica 1980, that’s what.