[Psycho_Bunny]

Hm....two shows I think suck anyway.

[Hazzardgate]

SMALLVILLE is a good conservative show.

[Bigg Red]

Do your brain a favor -- stop watching TV. Then you won't have to waste your time over problems such as these.

[Conspiracy Guy]

I don't watch any of this crap.

[EveningStar]

Good essay! Thanks! :)

BTW, Smallville is not conservative. Businessmen are represented as evil. Just more Hollywood neo-Marxism.

[theDentist]

"... used by people who were trying to provoke a war ... to push up the price of their Caspian Sea Oil reserves."

I must have missed that episode. I haven't heard it uttered at all. I still enjoy the program nonetheless.

As to Buffy, eh. Never really followed it. But it seems to me that the ultimate evil would be doing some denegrating things to all-things Judeo-CHristian. And marketing-wise, Easter week would get the most viewership (or maybe Christmas).

Just remember, you can always change the channel. Or, I recommend just turning the TV off.

[jim35]

I loved 24, at least the second season (I never watched the first season). I was impressed that the show had the guts to actually make the bad guys Arab terrorists. It's starting to go to hell now, though. The whole "oil conspiracy" crap has really turned me off.

[Consort]

Never watched either; don't plan to either.

[zx2dragon]

I could not stand to watch the poorly written and acted 24 last season. I didn't even try to this season.

As for Buffy, I am a long time fan. It's mindless and I enjoy some of the plot twists and turns that the creators are so good at. Plus there's usually one or two shows each season that are incredibly well done. Hush and the Body are two such episodes.

That being said, there have been evil clerics mentioned in plenty of sci-fi and horror media. It is nothing new at all. Yes, the character is absolutely evil and has absolutely no redeeming quality, the kind of pawn you would expect the First evil to have and use.

[jjm2111]

My favorite Liberal TV twist was in the movie "Sum of All Fears." The book had Muslim extremists as the bad guys. The movie changed it to.....everones favorite PC bad guy: Neo Nazis!

Except now I just call them National Socialists.

[Ferret Fawcet]

I'm a fan of 24 also- missed the first season but have been watching ever since. I have never been a huge fan of this type of show, but 24 has made suspense into an art form. Never before have I seen a show that literally has me on the edge of my seat, my heart rate elevated, yelling at the characters on the screen!

[Under the Radar]

"The Shield" on F/X is a wonderful, conservative show.

[ThinkDifferent]

perhaps the Buffy spin-off Angel

I've noticed this as well, most recently in regard to firearms. Buffy had made clear her antipathy toward guns on several occasions (which is silly, since she's used crossbows, grenades, and RPGs). But on Angel the good guys will pull out guns when necessary, and a few weeks ago a well-aimed shot to the head of a powerful demon saved their lives in an excellent demonstration of equalizing power.

[Im Your Huckleberry]

24 has gone off the deep end. I stopped watching after last week's episode.

It's degenerated so fast it's not even funny. What is funny are the wild-eyed leftist cliches that have suddenly been introduced:

• Arab Secret Agent is really a "good guy".
• Poor Members of the Relition of Peace (PMRP) nations are just dupes for "Evil White Males" (or EWM).
• EWM riot and kill PMRP throughout America as EWM in President's Adminstration try to take over government from Black President (it can't be underestimated that the President is "Black" and that this plays into the theme of the EWM out to get him).
• EWM Rednecks attack Arab Secret Agent shouting racist, cliched dialogue that would cause belly-laughs if it wasn't so enraging - so typically ultra-left Hollywood.
• EWM Cabal is made up of "Oil Barrons".

"24" should have just called the Vice President in the show "Cheney" and they should just paint "Halliburton" and "Enron" logos on every EWM vehicle.

In short, this show and its writers disgust me. They hooked everyone in this year with a realistic, completely plausable plot, and then twisted it into some ultra-left-wing, "hate Whitey" fest, with nauseating caricatures and banal, hysterical, cliched dialogue.

If one of the EWM characters had actually gone, "Darn tootin'" or spit tobbaco juice and screamed "Yeeeee Haaaaahhhh!" it couldn't have been any more cliched, or more of a caricature.

In short, this show has gone off the deep end, after hooking the audience in, and they've taken such a safe, easy, cliched, ugly route. It's so typically "Hollywood" that you want to vomit.

I've stopped watching. The show lost me.

[biblewonk]

Any more left and they will be going backwards.

[Dianna]

It was only when the first season was released on DVD that I learned that, in fact, the villains of the piece were Serbians angry over a military action taken during the war there

Well, it does help to watch the whole season. It's not as though you could miss it by blinking.

[EveningStar]

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