Yeah, it's true that Atlantis suffers from moral schizophrenia. To be honest, I think you might be giving the writers too much credit when you suggest that they're aiming for a gritty tone. I think they really do believe that their characters' actions are moral, which makes for a very strange and, at times, almost unbearable viewing experience.
But given SVU's sensationalistic tone and the way it whole-heartedly buys into (and in many ways, propagates) the culture of pedophile hysteria (which is not to say that pedophiles are not something to get hysterical about, but SVU treats them as something inhuman, at times almost supernaturally so) and actively promotes an ends-justify-the-means approach to such individuals, I'm not sure that my analogy doesn't hold.
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Date: 2006-08-19 12:19 am (UTC)But given SVU's sensationalistic tone and the way it whole-heartedly buys into (and in many ways, propagates) the culture of pedophile hysteria (which is not to say that pedophiles are not something to get hysterical about, but SVU treats them as something inhuman, at times almost supernaturally so) and actively promotes an ends-justify-the-means approach to such individuals, I'm not sure that my analogy doesn't hold.