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Is it a sign of a more innocent era that one could produce a fiction show without having an army of pundits decrying its "leftist media bias" - even when there
by brazzy 17y ago
Is it a sign of a more innocent era that one could produce a fiction show without having an army of pundits decrying its "leftist media bias" - even when there was one, deliberately?
Or were they just so bad at getting their message across that "nobody really noticed or cared."
- jff 17y agoI wouldn't exactly characterize the 80s as a particularly innocent era. Most likely, nobody cared by that point. Doctor Who was in its final stages by then. Ever notice that in general when a fiction program decides to make a political statement, it turns to utter ham-fisted crap? I'm imagining every show like that, in the kind of ultra-earnest tone of a street-corner communist, and it doesn't surprise me at all that the show was cancelled.