I just finished watching most of it (thanks to YouTube). The music is annoying and I was thinking it could have been omitted quite frankly. As for the professional wrestler, people do tend to talk a lot when they are nervous, perhaps he was just nervous and couldn't keep quiet. Who's to say? However, it was sort of funny when he got scared. I haven't seen anyone move that fast in sometime. It made me really think about how much editing they must do for each episode before it is aired so each episode doesn't end up like the live "Halloween Special". I suppose that with all of the editing, things may seem "more active" and not so many slow patches. I still enjoyed it despite the slow spots.

I was looking forward to watching the TAPS Halloween special, but the music was so distracting and terrible that I got a headache and stopped watching...It was also boring and a waste of time. In addition, the show was not live on the west coast and when I tried to access the show via the internet, there was no sound on the supposed "live" video...I am a big fan of the weekly show, but I'm not sure I'll watch another Halloween investigation again. I felt the same thing about the Winchester Mystery House investigation the was done by Most Haunted...

Actually what made me twitchy was the last hour with the trial runs on the 'new investigator'. Frikkin *thousands* of applicants and they pick three people who have no experience. I simply can not believe that other paranormal investigators were not vying for that position. That was beyond disappointing and heavily discreditting to the seriousness that many people take in the field. They had radio dude, robo-cop and halloween girl- gah. Granted, the policeman does have investigative experience, and the lady with the halloween collection seemed to have a more active interest but none of them have read a book, worked with a group, or had anything practical beyond being armchair fans. That was just sad, and you could tell that the TAPS crew were unimpressed with the choices.

As for the music, yep you're right, Sci-Fi, and all other TV programming for that matter, functions on the basic ADD nature of the populace where if something isn't happening every 30seconds, channels get changed. Which unfortunately is based on sound research and the damage that modern entertainment has done on our attention spans.

It'll be curious to see what Donna and crew do with the TAPS international show.

There's a new one coming up on A&E called Paranormal State, the crew they've got are good people and the show is focused more on dealing with the client, so it'll be a bit different from what Ghost Hunters is like.