Re: hell on wheels -AMC
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Greg Langelius *</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I watched the first few episodes, and I also paused awhile in front of the Season I DVD yesterday. After reflection, I left it on the shelf.
I can't fault the writing, the acting, or the production quality; but shows like it, <span style="font-style: italic">Boardwalk Empire, Breaking Bad</span>, etc., are just a smidge on the far side fo the moral and ethical bondary I'm willing to keep in my home.
<span style="color: #CC0000">Maybe I'm just an old fogey </span>
but seeing outright evil and villainy being portrayed without any hint of societal yardstick or reference seems irresponsible.
I am as much a fan of Robin Hood, the good villain, as the next fellow.
This stuff is something quite different, and I just can't manage to suspend my judgement even part of the way it takes to swallow it whole, and without at least a modest response from my normal gag reflex.
I just have to ask myself <span style="color: #CC0000"> whether Hollywood is so bereft of moral value
</span> , or of sustainable story line material, that it is forced to employ such subject matter.
A pity if <span style="color: #CC0000">this is so
</span> .
The kids will see this, no matter what the 'guidelines' permit. Such portrayals, without some form of moral and/or ethical yardstick or reference, is not what I feel comfortable seeing paraded upon their center stage.
<span style="color: #CC0000"> If we ever wonder where the whackos get their imbalances from, I'd have to be pretty 'off' myself not to cite works such as these.</span>
Greg </div></div>
From one old fogey to another,Well said.