Posted on 01/24/2006 7:58:18 AM PST by presidio9
EXACTLY! These shows are INTENDED to demean and disparage Jesus Christ, Christians and the Christian morality that poses such a problem to most in Hollywood.
Remember that these are series, television product written, produced and enacted by, almost routinely, incredibly liberal people -- particularly most actors and distribution employees (the executives who fund and develope the series themselves) -- and that most of those regard Christianity and Christian morality to be laughable, at worst, and worthy of "proving hypocritical" at best.
Thus, they respond favorably to projects pitched to them by liberals, projects that make them laugh, entertain THEM, things that disparage and ridicule conservatives, Christians, Christian morality, things that depict the very same things that they fantasize about when they're dreaming of their evenings...
It's an industry that is not conservative and tends to evaluate conservativism as synonymous with "bad" and thus, what they produce and staff and enact ends up being immensely foolish if not outrageously awful to most of the rest of the country.
Hollywood, the film and television series, mostly entertains themselves. It takes only one conservative with talent to influence toward the better the rest and most of the industry just wants to keep their jobs, so, it's a case of influencing for the better one show at a time, when and as possible.
The rest -- as mentioned here, this thread -- dies off because they never maintain viewer interest, and worse, their advertisers actually gain bad mention by even affiliating with the shows.
Recruiting students for film and other creative arts programs from areas outside of L.A. and N.Y. and Boston would be a good place to start to effect change, in my opinion. Along with recruiting faculty with good moral values to staff film schools...what's there now is...well, it's liberalism compounding liberalism with a large dose of "yeah, karl marx/castro/che" thrown in.
All of them? Wow.
I must be dreaming.
You're wrong about Will and Grace...it was successful, even in the Conservative States and I have a theory why...Gays were portrayed as stereotypical, sex-obsessed narcisists. Just the way middle-America likes to think Gays are. Plus, it was a very funny show. I once asked a gay friend of mine why the gay community was so fond of the show, since it did depict them in a somewhat negative light. He said that they were just happy whenever a gay character is introduced into the mainstream. So there you have it.
Excellent, succinct observation. I would also ad homo-exhausted. At this point I'm just sick and tired of it.
Daniel - fine, no loss.
The other two series both had long runs, and W&G had announced previously that this would be their last season, so it's not a cancellation.
"...Excellent, succinct observation. I would also ad homo-exhausted. At this point I'm just sick and tired of it...."
And the homos suffer from an extreme case of heterophobia.
Sometimes I wonder if people understand the word "GONE".
The intention of the producers of "All in the Family" was to mock "Archie," who was the stereotypical conservative. I recall reading years ago that the producers were horrified to learn that most Americans were sympathetic to Archie, and hated "Meathead."
"Commander in Chief" can't be far behind?
..now where was that official announcement from? The link on the blog doesn't work.
Yes, but leave it to NBC to replace it with another piece of garbage.
Sorry if I erroneously read 'victory' into your post. :)
It's been cancelled? Good news!
Touched by an Angel was for mystics and angel-worshippers. The show never proclaimed Christ - just this amorphous god that would send angels to help out certain people. The shows theology was flexible, at best.
7th Heaven is ok.
But 3 Wishes? Since when are Christians supposed to believe in "wishes"? The title alone shows that it's trying to be Christian-lite, and merely "inspirational".
And don't get me started on TBN...oh brother...
Face it, contemporary forms of media aren't meant to entertain devout Christians. Hollywood keeps trying to get it right, but they fail every single time because they fail to understand the basic precepts of Christianity and moral absolutes.
Aiden, We are the ones acting like grown ups. We didn't watch your silly show. Now go look for another job.
Like an earlier poster said, it's not just a lack of understanding, it's contempt. Hollywood would hire Hitler to film "Exodus".
I especially enjoyed the "Noah's Ark" scene when the pirates attacked the ark. That was about the point I finally gave up on network TV.
"Clueless" is way too generous a word to use when 99% of TV/Hollywood people try to depict Christian topics.
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