Some final thoughts on "The Book of Daniel"

[liberalpress]

I say final here, because the NBC affiliate in my town has joined six others through out the country in pulling the show from its Friday Night schedule.

Two things make this decision interesting. First, the show is a limited run series and would have been finished in February anyway.

Second, back in my day, a network or TV station would put a show on the air, and people would either watch it and it would be become a hit (M*A*S*H*, Hogan's Heroes) and not watch it and it would go the way of "Manimal" or "Camp Runamok."

My wife said apparently not many supporters of the show called the station to express their desire to see the show on the air.

I admit I didn't call.

It never occurred to me to deny people the choice of whether or not to watch it.

My bad.

[acmejack]

1. Personally I could care less

The idiot box is only used for c span, pbs and sporting events here. It remains off most of the time ot muted. I rarely watch any of the so called entertainment on tv. So I am uninformed on the controversy over this show except what I have read & heard second hand.

[INdemo]

5. Why was nothing said about

last Sunday's episode of Desperate housewives That was terrible.

[liberalpress]

6. Simple..

People watch "Desperate Housewives", those who complain a show is bad, don't watch.

[INdemo]

17. I dont watch it

But my wife watces it from time to time, The point I was making is that scene was unnessessary because the story line was already on that track. So what does one tell a 5 year old about a scene like that. But thats my personal view and Im surprised ABC of all networks went with that line.Its class B acting at its worse.

[BR_Parkway]

16. Terrible cause someone cheated a spouse? Some older woman had

sex with a high school boy? Someone killed someone else?



Or just terrible cause a couple of boys kissed?

[zbdent]

2. You know what's going to be sadly comical about all this?

In two years, the Religious Reich are going to claim that "Book of Daniel" was a RELIGIOUS TV show which was removed by the LIBERALS!

[liberalpress]

3. Sadder yet...

... I've got five bucks that says almost none of the people who called and complained had even seen the show!

[madeline_con]

8. I want some of that action...

see post #7. :hi:

[rucky]

4. I'm still pissed about them cancelling "Manimal"

then again, I was 8 at the time.

[Cooley Hurd]

10. ...and Supertrain!

:cry:I still mourn its loss.:cry:

:rofl:

[madeline_con]

7. I liked it very much....

and asked a coworker ("Christian" and repug) if she'd seen it. She said she hadn't, and didn't intend to and that a gay priest is just too much.

I said the priest isn't gay, his son is. I said I liked it because it showed actual humans who had God and Jesus in their lives. She said it would just upset her too much, so she would not be watching.

I said that when something causes this much controversy, I like to watch and make my own decision, not base mine on what someone else tells me to think.

She didn't like that comment. Hopefully, some of my comments will make her think, but I doubt it. :(

[liberalpress]

9. A talkshow caller here

..said his church organized a call-in effort to get the show removed. The caller admittied to having called, but also admitted he never saw the show.

[hwmnbn]

11. "...make her think...." ?!?...

:rofl:

That's the last thing fundie repugs want to do. That's hard work!

[Why Syzygy]

12. she probably watched it

'Queer Folk' used to "upset" me because those sex scenes were way out of my sphere of experience.
But, they evidently resonate with many. So. I have a remote. Change channels. Never ocurred to me to restrict someone else's veiwing. I watch very little tv. Sometimes I wouldn't even bother to go watch 'Sex in the City'. There is internet :D

[liberalpress]

13. And that's the one thing that makes the ones in charge so dangerous...

... denial of choice is their primary tool to get and keep power.

[madeline_con]

19. But there is no "queer" sex, just talk about a gay kid. n/t

[Waya]

14. Since all the Christian Right Winger Nuts.....

....went off their rockers complaining about it - I felt I just had to watch it. While I've seen better and more entertaining shows - I couldn't detect blasphemy or any of the crap the so called 'Christians'
were claiming. What I saw was a family, where the Father happened to be a Minister, with every day, common place and human problems - Teenagers who acted like Teenagers instead of some 'Saints in Training'. All I saw was a family in a half-assed real environment who is trying to bring everyday Life into perspective with their Faith. Or maybe bring their Faith into perspective with everyday Life.

[liberalpress]

15. You're thinking..

... stop that immediately, and go to church. I'll tell you which one to go to... and why do you hate America.

[Libby2]

18. I emailed my local affiliate

and told them, thank you, for assuming I have no brain.
I told them I was done with their station.
I'm sure they are crying right now.