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Related: About this forumThis is why you don't run the Cosmos series on Fox:
Notice Neil never gets to the word "Evolution"
CBGLuthier
(12,723 posts)Will everyone just STFU about what was most likely just a stupid fucking mistake.
zebonaut
(3,688 posts)AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)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
(8,445 posts)And not just any fiction: Cartoons.
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)cprise
(8,445 posts)AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)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
(8,445 posts)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
(33,982 posts)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
(8,445 posts)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
(31,493 posts)W T F
(1,148 posts)Response to zebonaut (Original post)
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zebonaut
(3,688 posts)but apparently that theory has been falsified
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)as are many other Fox affiliates. It would not surprise me one bit if the same thing happened elsewhere.
LittleGirl
(8,287 posts)but our antennae doesn't get Fox stations. No cable here.
Glaisne
(515 posts)on the National Geographic channels as well.
LittleGirl
(8,287 posts)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
(53,959 posts)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
(53,235 posts)zebonaut
(3,688 posts)blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)Madmiddle
(459 posts)This is quite deliberate.
pam4water
(2,916 posts)valerief
(53,235 posts)Fox News.