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Post by THawk on Mar 5, 2017 0:56:22 GMT
I am bothered more by obsessive excessive gratuitous violence than I am of gratuitous sex. Both as a visual reference that will burn itself into my memory perhaps for live and the effects it will have on children who are impressionable. I feel the same. There was an old saying, "Garbage in, Garbage out" [GIGO]. Shows that exist as nothing more than vehicles for gratuitous violence pollute viewers' brains. There is a subset of our population who seem to believe the more sadism they can embrace, the more formidable they are personally. Real warriors never think that way. Obsessive preoccupation with sex isn't healthy, either, just as nothing in excess is, but does less harm in the real world than insensitivity to the suffering of others. The Walking Dead fits that description. I watched almost 6 seasons of that crap holding on to hope it will have something more to offer than brain and guts gore...but at the end that's really all the show was about. But no, it's not going to fuel sadism and make anyone more violent than they already are. That's not what this is about. It's about whether a show is there just to tickle your primal instincts, like violence (WD) or sex (and violence) like GoT, or whether it's trying to say something meaningful, of any kind of value. Both mentioned shows fail tremendously in that aspect, no matter how much their fans try to defend them. |
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