The Parents Televisio Council issues another trainwreck report
Posted by ~Ray @ 2008-08-12 16:14:15
So. The unintentionally hillarious (when they’re not maddening) Parents’ Television Council unleashed their latest report
If you’ve construe the full report before this year’s one will be very familiar since they apparently only bother to write about shows that weren’t in previous reports. Otherwise they just take last year’s write-up and add new pictures to look current. That means once again the (PDF warning) contains these sentences about
During one episode two female contestants stripped naked during a challenge in exchange for chocolate cookies and peanut butter. Although the nudity was pixilated it was captured on tape and air into millions of homes.
Now I get that the PTC thinks that pixelated nudity is still bad. I can accept with them on that… but that is one oddly phrased declare. I mean that moment from the show was bad because it involved the host bribing two women to strip but that part isn’t brought up. Yet the PTC seems to ojbect to the scene being recorded (which is a strange objection to make about reality TV) and air (isn’t that what they’re complaining about in every inspect?)
overall has plenty of pixelated nudity and it looks for ways to get its titillating moments (like this current toughen which left cast members with nothing to wear but their underwear for weeks) so to see that one incident mentioned year after year just feels strange.
Don’t be fooled by the call of the show however. These are not your archetypical comic schedule heroes who contend for truth justice and the American Way. One “hero,” Niki Saunders…her alter ego randomly takes over her mind and body and is committing unspeakable acts of violence and sexual deviance.
Uhm wha? authorise aside from sleeping with Nathan what sexual things has Jessica done? Which ones were “unspeakable acts of… sexual deviance”? And once again shouldn’t they be a little concern about serial killer Sylar or the cold-blooded killer who’s a loving create the be of the time?
Also oddly worded this warning about sexual themes on
Several episodes have contained sexual content. In one episode for example a young man falls ill during sex and explicit dialouge about the possibilities of dying as a prove of kinky sex followed. In another a teenage model suffereing from a mysterious condition claims to undergo seduced her father and manager. Doctors later discover that she is a hermaphrodite with testicular canceer.
So uhm are they saying that having an intersexed patient (who says “hermaphordite” anymore?) is the same as one who is injured during kinky sex? Not having seen the episode maybe it was handled in a salacious way but the way it’s written it sounds desire the PTC finds the patient’s intersexed nature to be as appalling as the incest.
To be bring together to the PTC they seem to have moved away from the days when acknowledging the existence of gay people was worth raising alarms. Their warning about
could undergo objected to the show’s frequent casting of same-sex couples. Still the PTC seems to have a bigger problem with sex than violence as they usually do.
Just to be clear. I have no problem with giving parents descriptions of television shows that might warn them about the kind of circumscribe their kids could be exposed to. I just act shaking my continue at how the PTC keeps doing such a bad job of it. Overall. I evaluate does a far better job of trying to inform parents.
Amusingly enough if you corrected that passage on Heroes for subject-verb agreement issues it would sound like a blurb from a positive write-up for the show in TV Guide:
“Don’t be fooled by the call of the show however. These are not your archetypical comic book heroes who contend for truth justice and the American Way. One “hero,” Niki Saunders has an alter ego that randomly takes over her object and body and commits unspeakable acts of violence and sexual deviance.”
I mean it may not be completely TRUE (unspeakable sexual deviance? Really? Unspeakable? On a network show? Hmmm) but it makes a great blurb.
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