While I agree with the intent of your long post, it is possible to resist many of the world's temptations and also utilize media not just for relaxation, but also to understand the culture towards which we need to be missionaries.
I saw The Passion of Christ (both versions) in the cinema; as well as The Nativity Story, Amazing Grace, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, The Prince of Egypt, and One Night with the King (story of Esther), all in first-run movie theaters. I've also rented DVDs of Luther, Saint Francis of Assisi, and a number of other Bible-themed films. On television, I watched The Greatest Story Ever Told, The Ten Commandments, Fireproof, and the recent, excellent cable series The Bible.
Also on cable, although it is a vast wasteland, are shows of Christian people who are "in the world, but not of the world", such as Dog the Bounty Hunter and Duck Dynasty, two family groups that pray together and work together on reality tv, as well as news commentators Laura Ingraham, Anne Coulter and Glenn Beck, who frequently mention their various Christian points of view. There are several all-religion Protestant cable channels and an excellent Catholic cable channel which has much to offer all Christians, EWTN. Even broadcast tv offers shows that feature Christian or Catholic characters, such as The Mentalist, in which one major crime-fighting character always wears a cross, and several characters frequently try to convince the agnostic protagonist that there is an afterlife.
I beg your pardon for my long posts, they must seem quite boorish. Brevity is the hallmark of a good writer, and sadly I am nothing of the sort.
There is no kind of wickedness a saint cannot understand without partaking in it personally. That would be an excuse to partake in wickedness.
I’m all for Godly media and have nothing against the technology itself.
If a follower of Jesus experiences something, and after comparing it to what is written in the Bible finds it in agreement, then is it unusual that they would like it? If they find it in disagreement, wouldn’t they be ashamed of themselves, want to know why they like it, and how to stop liking it? Wouldn’t they be fearful of God’s wrath if they in any way expose others to it, or speak highly of it in public? If they don’t care, or try to twist Scripture or the meaning of words so that the experience no longer “seems” to contradict the words in the Bible, wouldn’t that mean the experience is an idol?
I ask your forgiveness for speaking in compete ignorance here, as I don’t know anything about the shows you mentioned. Are the characters in the show people you look up to and long to emulate for their Godly character?
I’m not trying to tell you not to eat the meat of idols.