This is why you don't run the Cosmos series on Fox:

[zebonaut]

Notice Neil never gets to the word "Evolution"

&sns=em

[CBGLuthier]

1. When they air next week's episode, all about evolution, without a hitch

Will everyone just STFU about what was most likely just a stupid fucking mistake.

[zebonaut]

2. ah, there's that key word, "stupid"

[AtheistCrusader]

3. FOX isn't just FOX.

There's a divergence in the company between it's right wing horseshit excuse for 'news', and their entertainment stuff like the Simpsons, etc.

On the entertainment side, creativity is allowed, and ratings rule, which is why the Simpsons has been able to not only exist on Fox, but directly ATTACK Fox without getting burnt down over it.

Cosmos should be fine on that channel. But yeah, the ridiculous hyperbole from the 'news' side is going to be fascinating.


It's really a fully two-headed monster.

[cprise]

18. IOW, Liberal viewpoints are restricted to fiction

And not just any fiction: Cartoons.

[AtheistCrusader]

19. In fairness, I will never forgive them for what they did to FireFly

[cprise]

20. FireFly had a libertarian theme IIRC. n/t

[AtheistCrusader]

21. It does, actually.

Also a slight pro-confederate bent in the backstory. Which is unusual to me, given the creator's support of Obama in the last election.

[cprise]

22. He's like the producer of COPS

never letting us forget he's a "Liberal" while feeding us lopsided "reality" images of the "ravening, rasping hoard of sub-humans".

Actually, they almost all seem that way now. They pump out ego fantasies for a demographic that became teabaggers.

In Whedon's case, though, it isn't about zombie hordes (though FireFly had an episode of that, too) so much as gunslingers putting a nuclear-tipped police state in its place... and that white-male hero worship again. His lead in Firefly (Nathan whatshisface) appears to support Obama, too, but his arch enemy in Castle is a Liberal US senator who murders anyone who gets in his way while promoting the welfare state.

And Firefly fans seem to love Castle, so I guess Nathan was the right choice for their intended audience.

[AtheistCrusader]

23. Actually, now that I think about the political landscape of Firefly a bit more...

The problematic central government of Firefly is very authoritarian/right wing*. So to use the US civil war model, it would be as if a modern Republican government played the part of the Union in the US Civil war. Not the Republican government of Lincoln's era, which would be completely unrecognizable if you pulled it through a time warp to modern US.

*Highly militarized, strict authoritarian hierarchy, torture, secret police, secret weapons programs, public misdirection for the 'greater good', blowback from foreign policy (accidentally created the reavers, which might be analogous to religious extremist terrorists.)

[cprise]

25. That sounds like a conservative's idea of an unchecked leftist government, too

There was also the episode where a utopian community degenerates into zombie-like violence.

OTOH, I really believe that the Wheedons of the world really believe they're lefty Liberals. But they're so culturally pinched that their narrative (and business) instincts leave their ideals vision-less.

[L0oniX]

4. Silly people ...science and Fox don't mix.

[W T F]

5. Free speech hating communists at Fox "news"

[zebonaut]

7. I heard they are running it on Fox precisely to reach "that" audience...

but apparently that theory has been falsified

[KamaAina]

8. That station is owned by the right-wing nutjobs at Sinclair

as are many other Fox affiliates. It would not surprise me one bit if the same thing happened elsewhere.

[LittleGirl]

9. I wanted to watch

but our antennae doesn't get Fox stations. No cable here.

[Glaisne]

10. The series is also being shown

on the National Geographic channels as well.

[LittleGirl]

11. well thanks

but as I said, we don't have cable, or satellite either. We have an HD antenna and every time the wind blows, it gets knocked over and we have to reset it on the roof.

When I tried to watch it on-line it asks for the cable company log-in ID.

[Behind the Aegis]

12. I am surprised some didn't run this version:

BTW, the eastern half of OK got the whole program, no glitches. My partner and I actually laughed when we saw the part about the monkeys looking up to the sky. I said, "how many heads just exploded right now!?" LOL!

[valerief]

16. Gotta love Fox Entertainment for bringing us Family Guy!

[zebonaut]

24. Yep but this is what actually happened! ROFL

[blkmusclmachine]

13. Faux being Faux

[Madmiddle]

14. Program directors don't have accidents.

This is quite deliberate.

[pam4water]

15. I was wondering what Cosmos was doing onf Faux too.

[valerief]

17. Same thing as Simpsons or Family Guy. It's on Fox Entertainment, not the GOP Propaganda channel

Fox News.