Sportsdude wrote:
[div style="font-style: italic;"]One of my favourite shows: Prison Break, is one of the most violent shows I've seen on public tv. They chopped a toe off in the opener, killed a cat, deal with prison rape, guy had his man hood chopped off, families have been executed for no apparent reason, cop was killed in a prison riot, abruzzi was slashed in the throat. Its more graphic then 24 in my opinon because of how they treat each death.[/div]
Umm....That doesn't sound very entertaining to me.
Can people write a decent story for TV or movies without someone dying? How is murder supposed to be entertaining. Are we that jaded that limbs need to severed to catch our attention.
I don't mean to hash on your favorite show SD but...families executed for no apparent reason?!?!?!? Not so entertaining when you have a family.
I read something about a study once that found that people are more apt to respond to advertising when they are in an extreme emotional state. That's probably why we see so much of this kind of crap. And why local TV news bounces back and forth between fluffy kittens and grisly murders ("could your family be next?")