Coming home from training today Tom and myself were talking about how bad most TV shows are. We were going around and around on reasons, but nothing really caught my attention as a sure thing.
I then remembered what impressed me about the two last anime series I watched. Trigun and Nadesico. Great shows, a lot more complicated than any US cartoon would ever be. And I realized the point that I had remembered from both. They had the characters make bad decisions. Not bad in the good vs. bad decision way. But bad in the bad vs. worse way. The sort of real world decision that arises all too often in life. Both shows had the main characters do something which immediately caused the death of many people. On the hope that it will save many more in the future. But there were no guarantees, no immediate cause and effect.
Contrast with US television. Rachel decides to keep the baby even though she’s a single mother. A single mother with a spacious apartment in NY, big group of Friends, good job, etc.
Howzabout a decision to abort the baby because she knows she’s a flake and can’t handle it, since it would interfere with her life. The father, the brother of her best friend, freaks out and takes her to court to save the child. The best friend caught in the middle. Court sides with Rachel and she aborts. Ross commits suicide.
Show American viewers the Hollywood way of dealing with that situation. Please.

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