Blackwater Babe
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I watched the entire first two seasons of the British original. It was... fantastic... I can't remember when or if I have ever been so moved by a TV show, where the characters were realistic, not cardboard cutout caricatures and you could get emotionally involved in their lives and stories. Yes, it deals with drugs, and sex, and, if one actually watches it, rather than hysterically leaping for the complaints department number the instant a bit of skin is revealed, you'd see that it most certainly does NOT portray them in a positive light. When Chris died, I wept like a child, and I don't care who knows it.
But I guess network executives are right when they assume the bulk of the American audience can't follow a storyline that involves more than a single episode, and lacks the insight to appreciate anything but the most direct and obvious spelled out messages. Getting worked up about Skins as showing teenage sex and drugs in a positive light is pretty much as nonsensical as making similar claims about Romeo and Juliet. Yes... in the first 10 minutes, teenage sex and drugs might seem to be presented as glamourous... but if you actually... you know... watch and think about the whole thing, you will relaise it is anything but! *sigh* but we are Americans. If anything requires more thought than a bumpersticker length soundbite or involves any sort of introspection or nuance, we can't cope.
Very, very sad *sigh*
But I guess network executives are right when they assume the bulk of the American audience can't follow a storyline that involves more than a single episode, and lacks the insight to appreciate anything but the most direct and obvious spelled out messages. Getting worked up about Skins as showing teenage sex and drugs in a positive light is pretty much as nonsensical as making similar claims about Romeo and Juliet. Yes... in the first 10 minutes, teenage sex and drugs might seem to be presented as glamourous... but if you actually... you know... watch and think about the whole thing, you will relaise it is anything but! *sigh* but we are Americans. If anything requires more thought than a bumpersticker length soundbite or involves any sort of introspection or nuance, we can't cope.
Very, very sad *sigh*
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