When I first saw Project Blue Book advertised I got the same thrill as when I first saw The X-Files advertised for the first time so many many years ago. I'm a huge Kolchak fan and X-Files was a somewhat more sophisticated version and was wildly entertaining in its early days. As it got bogged down in its main myth story it lost steam, but most shows do eventually. Project Blue Book has some of that the same energy but with a nifty period feel.
The shows are like watching stories from the old weird detectives, once a staple of the pulps, put to the screen with a decent budget. Wrapping the the yarns around real investigations but clearly not limiting themselves to that makes for some fascinating viewing. I know a point will come when the show loses momentum, when the backstories becomes too convoluted, but that only happens if it's successful and stays on the air, a gamble I'm will to take.
J. Allen Hynek is a name all of us who have dabbled in UFOlogy have read about. He's the real guy that the series is based around, the man who gave us the categories of encounters of various kinds. He's a man of science who went from hard skeptic to less skeptical. And it's at "less skeptical" that I find myself most of the time about most parapsychology, UFO's included. It's fun to see the scientific method (for the most part) applied to circumstances of bizarre and bewildering. It's an hour-long show so much is too pat, but still it's nifty to see a show where brains and logical reasoning are the focus. It's refreshing in a time when such learned approaches are all too often met with ignorant disdain.
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