British TV
I'm not much for TV. There are a few shows I watch, 24, Stargate, the Simpsons, Nova. Hey, screw you, Nova is damn cool. Point being, I was trying to download a decent hex editor the other day and I ended up pulling a torrent for a British show from a few year ago called Hex.
Sort of a cross between a lesbian version of that witch show with the chick from Who's the Boss and Pretty much any show on the WB. And no, I didn't just watch it for the lesbian ghost thing. Though that did make for some interesting plots. And yes, while the general plot was kind of cheesy, the way in which it dealt with some of the issues was far beyond what you can find on American TV. There was one episode at the end of the first episodes that dealt with abortion. Granted, demonic abortion (seriously, trying to explain this shit, I would get lost and I've actually watched the shows) but it approached topics in a way you don't find on American TV. It was actually fairly mature about the way it handled things. Not that I've been able to actually watch more than five minutes of any given episode of the OC but it was more direct, more realistic (for a show about a witch and a lesbian ghost) and more mature in the way it approached issues, than anything you would find on Fox.
Okay, so run on sentences aside because I'm bloody tired, I'm disappointed by the fact that American TV would have deemed these topics as ill fit for youth and would have approached them in a much more melodramatic way. I like to believe that if you give reasonable people a chance, even if it's about something you may consider taboo, they can make a good decision. Now of course I'm usually wrong and people are fucking morons but I still like to believe that honesty and directness and bullshitlessness (fuck you, that's a real word) can lead to moral decisions by people.
So, not that I'm saying you should watch the show, 'cause it could have used far more girl on girl action, but it was a good distraction for a few evenings and it's nice to know that writers somewhere haven't been castrated by far, bullshit and overprotectiveness. Sky-1 actually makes decent programming. Well and of course they did have Farscape before the US did so, go figure.
Sort of a cross between a lesbian version of that witch show with the chick from Who's the Boss and Pretty much any show on the WB. And no, I didn't just watch it for the lesbian ghost thing. Though that did make for some interesting plots. And yes, while the general plot was kind of cheesy, the way in which it dealt with some of the issues was far beyond what you can find on American TV. There was one episode at the end of the first episodes that dealt with abortion. Granted, demonic abortion (seriously, trying to explain this shit, I would get lost and I've actually watched the shows) but it approached topics in a way you don't find on American TV. It was actually fairly mature about the way it handled things. Not that I've been able to actually watch more than five minutes of any given episode of the OC but it was more direct, more realistic (for a show about a witch and a lesbian ghost) and more mature in the way it approached issues, than anything you would find on Fox.
Okay, so run on sentences aside because I'm bloody tired, I'm disappointed by the fact that American TV would have deemed these topics as ill fit for youth and would have approached them in a much more melodramatic way. I like to believe that if you give reasonable people a chance, even if it's about something you may consider taboo, they can make a good decision. Now of course I'm usually wrong and people are fucking morons but I still like to believe that honesty and directness and bullshitlessness (fuck you, that's a real word) can lead to moral decisions by people.
So, not that I'm saying you should watch the show, 'cause it could have used far more girl on girl action, but it was a good distraction for a few evenings and it's nice to know that writers somewhere haven't been castrated by far, bullshit and overprotectiveness. Sky-1 actually makes decent programming. Well and of course they did have Farscape before the US did so, go figure.
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