"We don't NEED to see it. We can see it ANY time we want to by turning on the G*dd*mn NEWS of the Middle East! Every day brings us new headlines about how many civilians/bystanders/INNOCENTS were slaughtered today by walking/driving bombs. The news is FILLED with men and women wailing over the bodies of their loved ones, their own hearts torn out and their own souls destroyed."
I think there's an interesting argument and debate here about the role of escapist fiction. I'm currently reviewing the SF work of Thomas Disch on my LJ, and it was quite clear from his stuff that he used SF to comment on the world - in his case Vietnam, the Cold War etc - and his feelings about life in general. His work is grim and sad and disturbing and death play a major role. Algis Burdrys and others, who believed that SF should be about hope and the future, hated his work.
Personally, I think good drama, whether it be Torchwood or Doctor Who, should, sometimes, be confronting and hard to watch. But that's me.
"and I hope he brings a rain slicker to Comic-Con, for the rotten tomatoes they'll be throwing at him."
And I hope that doesn't happen. It's one thing to ban someone, but it's another to vilify someone in public over what is, at the end of the day, a TV show. He's not George Bush, and there should be throwing of shoes.
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Date: 2009-07-14 12:15 am (UTC)I think there's an interesting argument and debate here about the role of escapist fiction. I'm currently reviewing the SF work of Thomas Disch on my LJ, and it was quite clear from his stuff that he used SF to comment on the world - in his case Vietnam, the Cold War etc - and his feelings about life in general. His work is grim and sad and disturbing and death play a major role. Algis Burdrys and others, who believed that SF should be about hope and the future, hated his work.
Personally, I think good drama, whether it be Torchwood or Doctor Who, should, sometimes, be confronting and hard to watch. But that's me.
"and I hope he brings a rain slicker to Comic-Con, for the rotten tomatoes they'll be throwing at him."
And I hope that doesn't happen. It's one thing to ban someone, but it's another to vilify someone in public over what is, at the end of the day, a TV show. He's not George Bush, and there should be throwing of shoes.