Except, being nasty is against the rules of this forum. You can say nasty things all you like, in the privacy of your own home. When you start targeting people and saying nasty things to them on a public forum where ANYONE can see what you're saying, you become subject to the forum's rules. If you have a problem with restriction of what you say, then start your own forum, and invite people to say whatever they want on it, without restriction.

Roy Roger never lip-locked Dale Evans, but when the sun went down.........you knew the spurs came off (well, at least some of the time). :shocked:

Nope, definitely the TV industry (Hollyweird).

Roy Rogers was cancelled 4 years before I was born. It hasn't been relevant since 1957. Most homes now have indoor plumbing, even in rural areas. Oh and communicating with your loved ones can now be done instantly even if the loved one isn't home to answer the landline phone.

The world has evolved. White people are depicted as being friends with black people on TV now. Chinese people aren't only cast as the laundry shop owners anymore. Baseball players come in all shapes, sizes, colors, nationalities, origins, and sexual preferences. And yes - consenting adults of all varieties on TV kiss. The TV studios want to make sure that ALL the advertisers' potential customers are represented.

That is commerce. When people evolve, the media has to evolve with it. The Puritans are the vast minority, and the vast minority doesn't have as much buying power as the vast majority. This is capitalism at work. The opposite would be communism. I'm okay with capitalism.

Sarcasm Sheldon, sarcasm.

Yes and No. The major networks such as ABC which airs the drama show The Good Doctor, which harkens back to the original post from a week ago, that apparently upset the OP (Boomer). A poster said that the shows display of gay characters was too much in his face and he quit watching. So Boomer felt the need to basically chastise that poster and anyone else who thinks that way.

What Boomer and apparently Orange Blossom Baby neglected to consider is ABC is a broadcast network which falls under the FCC laws about obscene, indecent and profane content, and obscene content does not have protection by the First Amendment. The poster of the previous thread was simply stating his objection to the 'in your face' portrayal of gay characters on it's most recent show.

The Common Sense website states the Good Doctor is a show for 14+ age group and warns about flashbacks to scenes of bullying. Doesn't really sound too risque. However, there are letters posted to Common Sense warning viewers.

Great show. Not for kids
This is a great show, but in the most recent episodes there is so much sex and discussion about sex that it should not be for anyone younger than 16.

The Good Doctor TV Review

I have never watched the Good Doctor, but apparently from comments, it's beginning to crossing the line in areas that are not their norm. I've not watched any recurring network TV shows since the 80's when I watched Moonlighting. I'm only going by the remarks of posters on the subject.

I have watched one episodic TV show, but it was on HBO, the show Six Feet Under. I never watched when it was new, but have since watched all 63 episodes about five times each. It's probably my favorite show if I had to pick one. However, the big difference is it was not on a public broadcast network. It was on a paid premium channel that was HBO, and most everyone who subscribes to HBO knows what they'll be getting.

Anyone that has watched Six Feet Under will know the show was based on the Fisher Family who operated a funeral home in Los Angeles. First off, it's a show about death, it's located in Hollywood, and two of the main characters, Michael C. Hall (who many will know as Dexter, which came later) and Mathew St. Patrick are gay lovers. What's even more off-kilter is St. Patrick portrays an LA Cop, but while on duty looks and plays the part of a cop perfectly. The show's scenes are sometimes the two of them kissing, but knowing the show was on HBO and warned of graphic with nudity, sex, gay, and very raw, it was not a surprise such as ABC and the Good Doctor.

The Good Doctor is about a young surgeon with autism who uses his medical gifts to save lives. Rated as a 14+ TV audience

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Six Feet Under chronicles the lives of a dysfunctional family who run an independent funeral home in Los Angeles. Rated as 18+ for mature viewers only.

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Yep. Too bad. Suggests that The Villages may not be “Florida’s Friendliest Hometown”.

But as a moderator, couldn't you have fixed some of that? Just curious, because I did not know that posters could be moderators as well.

Great hubris.

Anybody can post an opinion, but it’s much more Cerebral To do it with style. Happy weekend to everyone.

I appreciate your post but just like in Facebook or any other media, I just keep rolling. There is a lot of negativity, I share & forward happy & fun posts. We have lots of time on our hands we should look for happiness and share it.

Sorry but, that "Pepsi vs Coke" thing is a MERE small personal choice about a TRIVIAL preference. Pretend that you are a COVID virus riding on a droplet expelled from some human being's nose or mouth. You (the virus) do NOT care if you infect a Pepsi drinker or a Coke drinker. You are equally effective against either one. That is why that "Pepsi vs Coke" analogy had ZERO transference to the issue of the current CV Plague that affects each individual in TV Land or any human (and some animals apparently) in the world! I am also sorry that my rhetoric is about how serious the EVOLVING Virus actually is. I am sorry that I do NOT understand why so many people on this forum want to downplay that seriousness. I do this because I believe that if more people recognized the magnitude of the problem, then they could react BETTER as a society to fix the problem. It probably could (?) have been fixed months ago if EVERYBODY from a local level upward had been of ONE MIND and determined to put it behind us. I see other countries like Australia taking CV seriously and here in the US it is treated as a non-event, practically a joke. Some will next call me paranoid but, I feel that I am only realistic and I am trying to warn about what I see here locally as treating CV as a non-event. I do NOT think that is a smart attitude! We are older and more experienced, we should be the thought leaders on this subject, not the thought deniers!

only two things that set me off on here..

1. LIES.....you cannot..it is impossible.....to have an adult conversation when a participant is lying. I am speaking of out and out fabrication, no opinions. There, in my mind is no excuse for that, and in the course of discussion enabling other liars with support is in the same ball park.

EVERY adult knows the difference between lying and difference of opinion, and those that try to pass off enabling a lie, or lying themselves have no respect for this forum, or the other posters.

2. ATTACKS on other posters is my second main critique. My wife was attacked on here about one year ago, because of ME....because I, with owner and moderator okay, allowed her to have her own separate user name. This was considered to be terrible, and on a trip to check PMs, she was boldly and nastily verbally attacked. THAT was her last trip on here. I have had PMs attacking me, and of course the political forum where that was standard action we will discount.

When political forum and outside conversations (things other than dog poop, etc) were encouraged, even a difference of opinion was civil, honest and adult. I used that forum, at that time, to learn from posters ideas and links they provided from their reading (YES, everyone mainly provided links to support their argument)

Yes moderators can fix.......IF they want to.
There is personal judgement.

That's why there is variation of acceptable content.


Yes posters & moderators can be one & the same.
I have suspended myself twice.

Offensive thoughtless ignorant untruthful posts
 

Seems to me part of the cause of this (see subject line) is allowing in cognito and pseudo name posting. I once had a fellow Villager caution me against using my real name for fear that "people will go after you."

If I have something to say, I'm happy to use my name and if someone has a problem with my thoughts, let's have a discussion.

Otherwise, settle for name calling and outrageous remarks.

The "almighty " PROFIT motive! Which motivates humans to constantly turn GREEN spaces into GREEN currency and non-green, non-oxygen-producing PARKING LOTS. When will that all stop - when the human species is extinct ? The buffalo herd was natural history and beauty all rolled into one. How unique are buffalo ? How un-unique and common is a concrete building with a PARKING LOT ? Which has more beauty and has more of a calming influence on viewers? Which would more artists like to paint? Someday in the barren future, people will wish that they made ALL decisions based on "QUALITY OF LIFE". It will definitely NOT be PROFITS.