Yes! Parents TV Council targets CW's "Supernatural"

Good look on the Petrellicest. The damned Heroes' writers seemed determined to keep Nathan and Peter apart. Have they learned nothing from last year? They've got a major boner for Peter and they ignore the far hotter Nathan.

Cracky, Spiff? That's a new one. Sam shot the nice lady in the head after they had sex and the Parents Television Council didn't even notice. No fair.

 

I don't have a problem with the reviews generally. What I do have a problem is they have been guilty of lying about programs, and trying to get them thrown off the air. Give parents all the guidelines you want but don't try and get stuff thrown off the air. Instead I would liketo se tem in how to educate parent in uing blocking tools and such.

 

How does Top Gear or Coupling serve the public interest?

As for the PTC, they have about as much influence as a grain of sand in an ocean of water.

 

Entertainment is in the public interest. Entertainment, that is, for everyone, not just young women which is what the CW is going for.

That said, I acknowledge that our ITV and Channel 4 aren't much better. They pander to young women and ignore everyone else too.

 

Entertainment is not in the public interest! I don't want MY tax dollars being spent "entertaining" anyone. People can spend their own damn money on fun!!! It's not like they have any difficulty doing that, or figuring out what they think is fun enough to be worth their money.

If the gumbint wants to spend my tax dollars on educating or enlightening the unwashed philistines with ballet and fractal geometry documentaries, then I can see the rationale there, even tho it's elitist certain things are more enlightening than others, so I don't want a lot of my money going towards that, mainly due to the very low probability that Wincest and Petrellicest will ever be deemed uplifting enough to merit public subsidies, so what's in it for me?

 

That would mean they might actually have to watch something that they criticize.

 

christians, if you don't want your kids watching it either lock out all stations aside from TBN or just throw away the tv. There are far more detrimental factors affecting society than some fantasy program that happens to be about demons.

 

Demons and dicks. The council should have watched this week. The boys were trying to figure out what three victims of the ghost sickness had in common, and Sam's theory was that they were all dicks. Then his brother, who also got sick, got offended that Sam thought he was a dick. References to male genitalia abounded.

 

We need to get bsg on the watchlist funny..

 

Though I don't watch Supernatural, I have to wonder, why is the Parents TV Council bothering to condemn it? It's not actually aimed at children, and where I live anyway, it's on at a time of night when children should be in bed.

And though I didn't read the whole thing, I did catch the end of their review for the Clone Wars movie, where they say it's not recommended for children 10 and younger. Huh? I'm pretty sure I would have had to be 10 or younger in order to enjoy that movie.

 

While I think Gossip Girl is an insanely stupid show I do have to admit that using the PTVC remarks as advertising is fucking brilliant.

 

Because Fundamentalist Busy-Bodies have been telling people how to live their lives for centuries. The Puritans are a prime example as is the Catholic Government.

 

They're not saying to boycott the TV show and stop watching it. They're simply saying, after reading the article, that if you don't like violence, you should avoid the show.

They are NOT telling people how to live their lives. It's sad how some (not all) people are jumping on this as such a negative thing.

I personally hate slasher films. Hate them hate them hate them. BUT I'm glad they're made, because they make money and I know many people that are really entertained by them. When my friends who enjoy these tell me "Oh, you wouldn't like that particular show or movie because...", they're not telling me what to do. They're just helping me out, especially if they know what I generally like or don't like. And it doesn't mean I won't watch it. But it means I'll take their opinions seriously because I know where they're coming from and they know my interests.

This site seems to be doing the exact same thing. And it doesn't hurt a soul.

 

Yeah, no Battlestar Galactica?

Jeeze these guys would have kittens, especially if they saw Pegasus and the New Caprica arc!!

We had a similar thing here in the UK with Mary Whitehouse, who's organisation complained about shows constantly. They even wrote a letter of complaint with a detailed list of not only the curse-words used, but how often, meaning someone had to watch the show all the way through and count them!

Sorry, but if I'm offended by a show I turn over, even if it peeved me off so much I had to complain I wouldn't sit all the way through it just so I could count how many times they said "crap"!!

 

They might want to boycott it after this week. The show's added a second angel as a semi regular character. (Robert Wisdom from "The Wire") Uriel is an even more sinsiter angel than Castiel. Uriel is pretty anxious to begin smiting people--a town in this case--and refers to humans as "mud monkeys" and "plumbing on two legs." Some would consider any angels that aren't of the Michael Landon/Roma Downey variety rather blasphemous. I think Erick Kripke's dream is to have Bill O'Reilly rant about his show on the air since Bill-O is so concerned with the war on Christmas and Christianity. Killer angels might not be Bill's cup of tea. SPN takes "other books" of the bible as source material for their angels.

Uriel the snotty angel

Then there's the homoerotic tension between Dean Winchester and Castiel. It's a pity this isn't on a real network. Bill-O would be sure to spot it and the PTC would be all over it all the time. Controversy equals ratings.

Castiel the holy tax accountant

 

M'rk,
While I appreciate and respect your view, you need to understand how these groups work. They are grassroots and powerful and their absolute mission and desire is to stop shows, to curb things on TV that offends them, and telling people that changing the channel is NOT enough. In effect, they are telling people how to live their lives. Read below.

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This next statement is one of the more worrisome. It is based out of fear and appeals to their members' fears and phobias. Notice the mention of the Columbine massacre. This immediately brings fearful and sad images and feelings to hearts and minds, just as much as talking about September 11th.
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On the lighter side, I love how they conduct the research they do to find all this offensive stuff.....

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I mean, really, aren't they worried about this team of analysts who watch every single bit of these offensive shows becoming desensitized and going postal and shooting up a mall or going around and fornicating or something?
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I think since it's on a cable network they ignore it.