The television critic from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer writes about the current paranormal prime time shows we have also been tracking. She writes about mythology:

Constructed well, a series’ mythology elevates it from forgettable, goofy venture into a phenomenon worthy of blog worship and academic study. Unique mythologies made “The X-Files” a hypnotic, addictive mind bender, and “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” a roiling stew of emotions, metaphor and literary allusion. They became their own universes, in a sense.

I guess I don’t look too deeply into these things. Seems like to me if a show is entertaining and the story line not too far-fetched it can be fun to watch. I suppose the writers and TV critics have to get into whys and hows these things work. I think they would be better served by writing and producing compelling material and characters that the public wants to attach their eyeballs each week. I know thats far easier to say than do.