The Book of Daniel
So, I'm watching 24 and my son is puttng together a puzzle, when he comes up to me and says, "Daddy, I wana watch the Book of Daniel." I tell him we can't because it won't be on anymore. He looks really sad and says, "but why, Daddy?" I have to restrain myself from telling him it's because some fundamentalist pricks who are too stupid to figure out how thier remote controls, vchips, cable boxes, power switches, turning their heads, closing their eyes, or any other of the million different things they could do to avoid watching this show, like to decide what the rest of us can and can't watch on TV, and instead just manage to tell him it got canceled.
I didn't think it was a great show or anything, I just watched in the first place because the religous extremists thought it was bad, but I was still disappointed when it got canceled before even getting a chance to see how good it would be, just because a bunch of assholes think they should be able to control what I watch. Dickheads. Won't anyone please think of the children?
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That's not true, storm. this show was canceled before it was able to generate any following at all and completely unrelated to any ratings. Just because a small minority of uptight idiots put pressure on some advertisers.
But there was no reason for anyone else to speak out because the show hadn't been on long enough to develop a following, so no one was particularly upset about the cancellation. The fanatics started their protests before the show even aired, and it never really had a chance. There is no reason for such an incredibly small minority to have so much control over what other people watch.
I agree that good shows get cancelled, I don't have a problem with that, I have a problem with the very specific reason why this got cancelled. And I don't blame the network, they shouldn't have to lose money to make a point. I blame the uptight morons who apparently can't control their own TV sets and any sponsors who caved into their pressure who otherwise would have advertised on this show.
Yes, the world will get along fine without the show, and I don't even know if I would have kept watching it. The point is, I don't want the extreme religous nuts being able to decide what is on TV.
It definitely didn't start off very well. I only watched it to make Pat Robertson mad, but usually it was recorded and I didn't really pay atention to it.
Maybe it hit too close to home for the morally superior religious types.
maybe it was cancelled because it sucked. religious fanatics or not. there are hundreds of shows over the last few years that only aired once or twice and then disappeared into obscurity. Book of Daniel has joined their ranks.
if it was really about the religious minority having the say so, how do you explain the continuing popularity of Will & Grace???
It didn't have time to suck, it was only on for two weeks. It wasn't cancelled for any other reason than the pressure on advertisers from the religous extremists.
I didn't realize Will and Grace was very popular, but if it is, it's only because it was able t become popular before the lunatics got motivated to protest it. If they had started on that show before it even aired, like they did on this one, it probably wouldn't have gotten going either. I hate Will and Grace, though. Stupid, stupid show.
Queer as Folk is completely different, since it's on cable, and not even basic cable. There's no advertisers for them to go after. I'm sure they were upset about Will and Grace too, I think they just didn't get organized quickly enough to get it off the air before it got popular. And once a show is popular, they're screwed.
Ive never heard of that show, but it irks me how they take good old cartoons like Bugs Bunny and edit the crap out of them, because they are too violent. And then they put on other crap with more violence in it and throw in subliminal messages. Whats up with that?
I agree with you on why Will and Grace is around, storm. What I'm saying is that the objections to this particular show were raised before it even aired, thus putting pressure on advertisers BEFORE it was able to gain any following and become successful. This show did not in any way attack Christian literature. Did you even watch it?
The show never had any time to become a bomb or not. That's my whole point.
Storm, I know it aired, I watched all of them. What I said was that the protests began before it aired, so unless it came right out of the gate with great ratings (which it didn't), it was doomed.
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