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Originally Posted by Molecules
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Long live the new flesh indeed... Death to Videodrome! 
The film was disorientating enough at points without remembering that you are watching it through, as you quoted, the modern retina of our minds...
Once the nefarious characters behind Videodrome and their intentions were revealed, and their subsequent mind control of Renn I thought I understood everything... actually I think I do but one question: how were 'the bad guys' able to interact with Renn's hallucinations and put those (what I first thought were symbolic) tapes inside him? At first you could say we were seeing through Renn's eyes but then you have the scene where his 'opening' takes off that guy's hand... 
I think this is definitely one for DVD purchase and repeated viewing, your reveal hit the nail on the head and this is probably my favourite Cronenberg film to date (although the needle scene with Debs REALLY made me cringe, I hate needles).
Out of interest - top 3 D.C. films Lee? I remember being really disappointed with Scanners for one and I think he has gotten a bit tame in recent years? (What will probably be referred to as 'the Mortensen era' of his career). I have Dead Ringers on recorded VHS 
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The way I guessed it (really, the film was hard) was that his hallucinations actually became real. Thus, he did actually have a giant pussy in his stomach. Thus, he was actually able to "use" the hallucinations against Videodrome in the scene where he fuses Harlan's hand to the grenade, so that was real and not merely a hallucination.
So then I also think Videodrome was created in order to turn regular people into programmeable biomorphing freaks .. I mean, it's clear that they want to turn people into weapons and if it was just about control, then why all the hallucinations, morphing and the weird tapestuff?
That's my hypothesis at least. Interesting movie.
