Why are there so many rapes on TV?

Maclean's ^ | May 11, 2014 | Jaime Weinman

[liberalh8ter]

The Walton's was my favorite (and yes, I know about Grandpa).

[driftless2]

I used to be quite amused by the old The Avengers series with Diana Rigg beating the heck out of all sorts of baddies. Ditto for Wonder Woman. Now it seems every cop show has to have a super tough female cop (who weighs about 120 lbs.) beating the snot out of 250 male baddies. Can’t watch it without laughing.

[GeronL]

GOT is a big hit - yet the vast majority of the country does not watch it.

[GeronL]

I love seeing LA or NYC destroyed because they are leftist icons

[nothingnew]

What you said. It's tiresome, boring and banal. There's probably 3-4 mainstream shows I watch. TMC is still at the top of my list.

FMCDH(BITS)

[jaydubya2]

Our family watches the reruns. You can’t find family friendly shows like that anymore.

[cripplecreek]

James Patrick Riley of Colony Bay productions wrote a great "review: of Turn.

Our Take on Turn

I also enjoy a story of the American Revolution that is unashamed to recognize the British as the bad guys. They were, after all, morally compromised, fighting for a cause you can tell they had trouble believing. Now, I have not watched the series to the end, and no villain can be so uniformly villainous you have no sense of their humanity, but there’s enough here, certainly, to hate — and drama thrives on hate. A dramatic, fictional television series can’t be as neutral as the bloodless academy observer, clucking on about a war that can’t possibly touch him. Men voluntarily enlist in armies and go to war for a reason. I’m glad the series producers appear to realize that.

(snip)

We live in a great, though fading republic, and the truth is: we need a lot more of these stories. We shouldn’t be counting them on one hand.

I was pleasantly surprised by the portrayal of the Dunnmore Proclamation. They didn't portray it as the kindly Brits freeing the oppressed slaves. They portrayed it honestly as slaves being seized from patriot families and given to British officers, loyalist families, giving them the choice of fighting for the British or being resold.

Its exactly the sort of television conservatives should support in any way possible. We won't win the culture war by retreating from it.

[IrishBrigade]

Now it seems every cop show has to have a super tough female cop (who weighs about 120 lbs.) beating the snot out of 250 male baddies

...that annoys the crap out of me...at least the Avengers tried to provide a plausible scenario for it...Peel was an accomplished martial arts expert...but today, they just stand there, toe to toe, and dish it out like a good old boy...and then make some kind of snarky remark after dispatching the guy...

[dragonblustar]

Hollyweird thinks this is normal behavior.

Because it is normal behavior in Hollywood. Ask any child actor, male or female, but mostly male.

[dfwgator]

It’s the same in every action movie as well, always have to have the tough butch chick who kicks guys’ asses.

[Ingtar]

The A-Team... hundreds and thousands of bullets fired and perhaps two people ever hit...

[I want the USA back]

Why is TV fascinated with people being violent, hateful, deceitful and rotten to other people? Answer that and you have the answer to this question.

[Secret Agent Man]

propaganda. plain and simple.

[Sherman Logan]

A 120 pound woman has a very difficult time beating up a 120 pound man. And a 120 pound man has a very difficult time beating up a 250 pound man. Do the math.

OTOH a 120 pound woman with a gun has a slight advantage over a 250 pound man with a gun.

She’s a more difficult target.

[driftless2]

You have a point.

[morphing libertarian]

Here is the way I think it works. Executive approve shows they think people will watch. They measure the results of that assumption. People watch what interests them. Based upon how many people watch they get more subscribers or sponsors at a higher rate. The more who watch, the more money the owners make. The more money they make the executives get to keep their jobs.

So tv is not fascinated with anything but getting viewers. Viewers are to blame.

[driftless2]

I wonder if these false scenarios aren’t getting a lot of women who think they’re the physical equals of men hurt. “Gee, I saw that tiny woman on tv whip that big bad man...I guess I can do that too.” Women would be better off arming themselves. Physical confrontations between themselves and men will not end well for them.

[driftless2]

That’s many, many tv shows and movies going back a long time. I used to get a kick out of scenes where some clowns are firing automatic weapons, and there are no corresponding bullet marks on walls or vehicles at where the shots are being fired. One hundred rounds fired towards a wall behind a target, and maybe ten squibs exploding on the wall. Of course, some shows were better i.e. more realistic than others.

[Hoffer Rand]

TURN is very good. Hubby and I have gotten quite hooked on it.

[caveat emptor]

Dozens of weapons listed, pictured, and use described at Internet Movie Firearms Database, starting with this Beretta:

Seen twice during Season 5. First in the episode "The Theory Of Revolution", when the A-Team show General Stockwell just how many weapons they managed to smuggle into the farmhouse without his security detail noticing. The second time in "Alive at Five", as the sidearm of Tommy Tedesco's right hand man. It has a slide-mounted safety/decocker and a round trigger guard, identifying it as a 92SB.

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