Posted on 10/06/2006 10:55:35 AM PDT by EveningStar
Are television critics a menace to society? What do we do when our media tastemakers, the men and women entrusted to evaluate the artistic merit of Tinseltown offerings, exult in Hollywood's lack of taste? When perverse novelty and "edge" and complete moral confusion is what these critics live to watch and love to promote, they appear to be seeking to establish the polar opposite of a moral tone in our culture.
Take as an example the critics' views on the new Showtime drama "Dexter." Its sickening premise makes a hero out of a sadistic serial killer, because he kills only bad guys and does so in the dark of night. During the day, he helps the cops assess blood spatter patterns in murder investigations. He's a sociopathic killer-slash-hero, with the emphasis on the slash -- he carves his victims up to fit into Hefty bags.
Author Jeff Lindsay, whose gruesome novels inspired the series, joked to the TV critics this summer that, "As I looked out across the room, the idea just popped into my head that serial murder isn't always a bad thing." They laughed...
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You know how Commieweird love to take "licenses". Bozell might have seen another episode in the making.
"Or Jack Bauer killin' terrorists or John Wayne shootin' up the cowboys in black hats or... "
Speaking of Jack Bauer...Season 5 will go into reruns on October 16 on A & E. Check you local listings.
I can't wait until the new season starts in January.
I regularly watch only a few shows. I have no desire to add this show to the list. It's an interesting topic, though.
Me neither. Just not a type of show that would appeal to me. Even if Dexter only kills the worse of the worse, the manner in which he does it and CW's glorificcation of this behavior can not be a good thing taken in large doses.
Issue number of the comic where Batman killed anyone, please.
Try his very first appearance. Detective Comics #27, May 1939.
Batman pushes a crook into a vat of acid and calls it "A fitting end for his kind."
I stand corrected.
No worries.
Just because Batman moved into more family-friendly terrirtory doesn't mean he started out that way.
Somebody ought to tell Bozell. Maybe he can milk another preposterous column out of the corrupting influence of Bruce Wayne on American children...
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