Originally posted by: C3PX
Didn't you read my post at all? I explained all that quite clearly I thought. Dawson's Creek was a big deal back during the time because it had underage high school students in casual sexual relationships. I have never watched it, but I have no reason not to believe what I have heard, nor have I ever heard anybody defend the show and say that it is not true. Buffy did, without a doubt depict casual underage sex. As I explained, my friend was a fan of the show and I stomached through a few episodes with him, and heard him talk about plenty of others.
However, even for somebody who is a die hard fan of either of those two shows, why is it so unbelievable for them to complain about some of their contents? Do you agree with every bit of content found in any given film or TV show you watch ADM? Why do you have to ask if it is just hersay? I refuse to believe somebody who knows enough about TV to know the WB is defunct, honestly doesn't think that teenage sex is glorified (or at least has been within the past 10 years, like I said before, perhaps they purged teen dramas of this, but I find that hard to believe) by the media. Unless all you watch are after school specials, I don't think there are a lot of shows on TV that actually deglorify underaged sex a whole lot, maybe there are, but I bet it is glorified at least as often if not twice as often. But like I said, I never even turn on the TV, so there is a good chance I am wrong. I am judging this over what I have seen of TV nearly ten years ago.
Didn't you read my post at all? I explained all that quite clearly I thought. Dawson's Creek was a big deal back during the time because it had underage high school students in casual sexual relationships. I have never watched it, but I have no reason not to believe what I have heard, nor have I ever heard anybody defend the show and say that it is not true. Buffy did, without a doubt depict casual underage sex. As I explained, my friend was a fan of the show and I stomached through a few episodes with him, and heard him talk about plenty of others.
However, even for somebody who is a die hard fan of either of those two shows, why is it so unbelievable for them to complain about some of their contents? Do you agree with every bit of content found in any given film or TV show you watch ADM? Why do you have to ask if it is just hersay? I refuse to believe somebody who knows enough about TV to know the WB is defunct, honestly doesn't think that teenage sex is glorified (or at least has been within the past 10 years, like I said before, perhaps they purged teen dramas of this, but I find that hard to believe) by the media. Unless all you watch are after school specials, I don't think there are a lot of shows on TV that actually deglorify underaged sex a whole lot, maybe there are, but I bet it is glorified at least as often if not twice as often. But like I said, I never even turn on the TV, so there is a good chance I am wrong. I am judging this over what I have seen of TV nearly ten years ago.
Uh, actually, Buffy didn't really depict casual sex at all. If my memory serves correctly, every character that was in a relationship that ended up with sex being involved was in some kind of committed relationship. Aside from Buffy and Angel getting it on (Angel was a Vampire, so not a lot can happen from that anyway), the only other two underage people were Willow and the wolf guy (can't remember his name now). There was nothing casual about their relationship though. They were in love and, at the time, he wasn't going anywhere. They were in a very committed relationship. The only casual sex between underage people on Buffy was the one episode where Xander and Faith got it on. All the sex that happened between Buffy and Spike wasn't underage. Buffy wasn't about any of that though. Buffy was a teenage drama set in a supernatural world. If you know of any episodes that did depict underage casual sex, feel free to cite them. I have all 7 seasons on DVD
Contrast that with Dawson's Creek. Dawson was trying to get it on with Katie Holme's character (again, I don't know all the character names). Then along came miss whore (sleeps with just about everyone, or so it's portrayed). Dawson starts doing things he wouldn't normally do and the only major consequence at the time was a little humiliation. Then you have another character who has a reputation for sleeping around and she eventually does do just that. Then you've got Pacey sleeping with his high school teacher. The entire show was based around a bunch of high school students dealing with the drama of who they're going to sleep with and when it's going to happen. I watched enough of it to know that it just got really lame.
Dawson's Creek was not an exception. For a while, all WB put on was "teen angst drama" that was nothing more than a bunch of high school students trying to figure out who to sleep with and when to do it. In fact, the only program on the CW that I still watch is Smallville. Everything else on that channel is a bunch of high school drama crap. Everwood, Laguna (or is it The Hills), the OC. It's all really just a bunch of junk.
The CW is a brand new network as of this season. The WB just recently ceased to exist, so it hasn't been gone that long.