Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-4877635-20130614170253/@comment-4839682-20131003000722

TNOandXadric wrote:

The "it's just fiction, it isn't that serious" argument doesn't fly with me because fiction does not exist in a vacuum: it's a reflection of us, and there is significant evidence to suggest that we're a lot more influenced by our intake of fictional media than we realize. Fiction is very, very serious, and it makes statements about the world whether we like it or not. Quite apart from the question of problematic fiction, to say that anything is "just" fiction trivializes what fiction is; you would not, for example, respond to someone's argument that Harry Potter is excellent because it values nonromantic love with "it's just fiction, it doesn't matter." Yes? And yet, if I turn the TV off, the show, and whatever values it is/isn't pushing, disappear, along with everything else on TV, which, again, is not as serious as the things going on in real life, which was my entire point. Not trying to upset anyone, but there are worse things going on in the world than a group being underrepesented on TV. Not trying to argue that what happens with/on the show is insignificant, only that maybe some of us get too worked up over it. It's a story to be enjoyed, ideas to be discussed, not something to spend every moment over, or something to scrutinize to the point you crush it. (Not saying that's being done by anyone in this discussion, but that is a thing that happens)