Gutsy move for TV?

[ApologiaPhoenix]

I recently posted in the Amphitheater that the Smallville show is going to have sex between Clark and Lana. I disagree with this, but think there are still several redeeming properties to the series such as the defeat of good over evil and the family of the Kents as a whole, particularly the parents and their attitude toward their super son.

However, I remember checking for info on this story elsewhere and found a forum on a Smallville site and had someone talking about it happening and what a gutsy move it was and kudos for rejecting an outdated morality.

Now I'm just wondering how in our day and age this is considered a gutsy move.

A former president can have oral sex in the White House and still have America's approval.

Ellen who came out of the closet on national TV can host the Emmy's.

Sex shows up regularly in almost every TV show and in many movies you can expect to see a sex scene.

I'm sure we can go on and on.

If, however, someone wants to really say something gutsy on TV, I have a suggestion.

Why not say something like, "You know, I'd really like to sleep with you right now, but I believe in the Judeo-Christian principles this nation was founded on and I just can't do it."

Or have a hero saying,

"I personally believe in Jesus Christ and that he's the only way to salvation."

Now usually in most series, such a person who says that is the one that's seen to be the villain or the idiot. Instead, let's have a hero say something like that. It doesn't take guts to go with what is popular in the mainstream today. It takes guts to go against it.

[Conductor42]

What a president does in his private life is none of our buisness, no more than it is my buisness who you are sleeping around with.

Many of our presidents in the past had affairs - not that it was right (god forbid), but it's none of our buisness. Why the conservatives chose to attack Bill Clinton this time on that issue was most likely a matter of desperation, as there was nothing else they could find to impeach him on.

[Piebald]

How is it a "gutsy" move to break down and show a scene that just about every other television show for adults has shown (i.e. a sex scene)?

If anything it shows lack of drawing power for the series; that you have to use a sex scene to draw in more viewers.

Not that I've ever watched the show ;;)

It certainly sucks that we've lost Superman as a moral exemplar.

Oh well, there's always Jesus and Spider-Man.

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[Conductor42]

Don't forget batman :)

[Ruth]

Replace the batteries in your carbon monoxide detectors.

[Zeluvia]

As an aethist liberal, I actually agree with the OP.

It is not "gutsy" nor do they deserve "kudo's".

It is a desperate bid for more market share and ratings, because sex sells.

I have only seen parts of it a few times, it was too family for me = )

[Piebald]

We all love Batman ^_^

However, I hear in the latest comic book there is a new version of Batman that kills a bunch of police officers with his batmobile and then laughs about it.

[Losvedir]

"You know, I'd really like to sleep with you right now, but I believe in the Judeo-Christian principles this nation was founded on and I just can't do it."

Uh huh, because that just rolls off the tongue.

Seriously, needless politicizing aside, I do agree that that would be more "daring" and I do in fact wish that is what Superman would do.

[Furor]

We all love Batman ^_^

However, I hear in the latest comic book there is a new version of Batman that kills a bunch of police officers with his batmobile and then laughs about it.

Dude, that ain't the half of it. Courtesy of a recent AICN article:

1989: “Who are you?!” “I’m Batman.”

1992: “I am vengeance. I am the night. I am BATMAN.”

2005: “Are you RETARDED or something? Who the hell do you THINK I am? I’m the • Edited by a Moderator • BATMAN.”

Actual quotes. I only wish I were joking. Frank Miller seems to have lost his mind.

[Piebald]

That is precisely the article I was thinking of when I wrote that, Furor.

_{psst.. you might want to bleep out the second to last word in that 2005 quote, Furor}

[Furor]

Yes, you're right. Alas, I was too late!

Seriously, however, that series is starting to worry me. I hope All-Star Superman isn't similarly problematic.

[Conductor42]

Of course, if you're looking for good superhero role-models, you could just go to the comics.

[Cowthulu]

As a regular Smallville watcher, I see it as a bad idea. I didn't know the show had gone down enough to resort to gimmicks for viewership. Oh well. The Lana/Clark storyline has continued to be the relationship that just can't be. Wish they would have kept it that way. Chloe is cuter anyway.

[Em7add11]

Don't forget batman :)

If I recall correctly, there's implied bat-nookie in Mask of the Phantasm.

[Piebald]

Batman's strong suit is not his abstinence from romance and sexual activity, but his strong sense of justice and hatred of killing.