Comments on: HBO’s Generation Kill Can’t Touch John Adams http://tvbythenumbers.com/2008/07/16/hbos-generation-kill-cant-touch-john-adams/4451 Nielsen TV Show Ratings, Data and More Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:43:30 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Lazarus Long http://tvbythenumbers.com/2008/07/16/hbos-generation-kill-cant-touch-john-adams/4451#comment-14715 Lazarus Long Tue, 05 Aug 2008 10:47:14 +0000 http://tvbythenumbers.com/?p=4451#comment-14715 "Iraq doesn't sell." So let me understand this: we are perfectly willing to compel our sons and daughters to murder hundreds of thousands of innocent strangers in our name, ....we just don't want to see what that looks like?<br><br>So you're saying, we Americans today are unwilling to think about the consequences of our inactions EITHER before OR after the fact?<br><br>Back in the Viet Nam era, nobody wanted to see a war about Viet Nam either....UNTIL consensus was reached that we should be ashamed of ourselves for being there, after which point we all urgently WANTED to see COMING HOME and THE DEER HUNTER and APOCALYPSE NOW--to know just what our ignorance had done, how badly we had screwed up.<br><br>Being stupid is bad enough. Being a coward about facing that is ten times worse. We OWE it to all those killed for no reason to watch honest dramas about it like GENERATION KILL....not just the staged hypocrisies shown on Fox that Event Horizon refers to below. “Iraq doesn't sell.” So let me understand this: we are perfectly willing to compel our sons and daughters to murder hundreds of thousands of innocent strangers in our name, ….we just don't want to see what that looks like?

So you're saying, we Americans today are unwilling to think about the consequences of our inactions EITHER before OR after the fact?

Back in the Viet Nam era, nobody wanted to see a war about Viet Nam either….UNTIL consensus was reached that we should be ashamed of ourselves for being there, after which point we all urgently WANTED to see COMING HOME and THE DEER HUNTER and APOCALYPSE NOW–to know just what our ignorance had done, how badly we had screwed up.

Being stupid is bad enough. Being a coward about facing that is ten times worse. We OWE it to all those killed for no reason to watch honest dramas about it like GENERATION KILL….not just the staged hypocrisies shown on Fox that Event Horizon refers to below.

]]> By: Bill Gorman http://tvbythenumbers.com/2008/07/16/hbos-generation-kill-cant-touch-john-adams/4451#comment-13043 Bill Gorman Fri, 18 Jul 2008 04:09:11 +0000 http://tvbythenumbers.com/?p=4451#comment-13043 Diana, I was a huge Rome fan as well. <br><br>From Wikipedia:<br><br>First season<br>According to the Nielsen ratings system, the pilot attracted more than 8.9 million viewers over eleven broadcasts, and achieved a 9.1 household rating for Sunday primetime.<br><br>Second season<br>The second season premiered January 14, 2007, with the first episode attracting 7.5 million viewers.<br><br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rome_%28TV_series%29#Series_history">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rome_(TV_series)#S...</a> Diana, I was a huge Rome fan as well.

From Wikipedia:

First season
According to the Nielsen ratings system, the pilot attracted more than 8.9 million viewers over eleven broadcasts, and achieved a 9.1 household rating for Sunday primetime.

Second season
The second season premiered January 14, 2007, with the first episode attracting 7.5 million viewers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rome_(TV_series)#S...

]]> By: kayarn http://tvbythenumbers.com/2008/07/16/hbos-generation-kill-cant-touch-john-adams/4451#comment-13042 kayarn Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:16:56 +0000 http://tvbythenumbers.com/?p=4451#comment-13042 actually, event, this was really down-the-middle. it was so much about whether war is wrong on right, it was about what the soldiers were going through and what life is like in that kind of situation. <br><br>the numbers dont shock me at all, you have to figure hbo is doing this for the emmy awards next year more than getting people to watch. positive brand reinforcement keeps them getting new customers and keeping ones. but, of course, they need to combine this with shows customers actually watch actually, event, this was really down-the-middle. it was so much about whether war is wrong on right, it was about what the soldiers were going through and what life is like in that kind of situation.

the numbers dont shock me at all, you have to figure hbo is doing this for the emmy awards next year more than getting people to watch. positive brand reinforcement keeps them getting new customers and keeping ones. but, of course, they need to combine this with shows customers actually watch

]]> By: Jack_Shephard http://tvbythenumbers.com/2008/07/16/hbos-generation-kill-cant-touch-john-adams/4451#comment-13041 Jack_Shephard Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:45:09 +0000 http://tvbythenumbers.com/?p=4451#comment-13041 ROFL, HBO has been good only when The Wire was on. :-) ROFL, HBO has been good only when The Wire was on. :-)

]]> By: Steven http://tvbythenumbers.com/2008/07/16/hbos-generation-kill-cant-touch-john-adams/4451#comment-13040 Steven Thu, 17 Jul 2008 03:42:56 +0000 http://tvbythenumbers.com/?p=4451#comment-13040 HBO has been terrrible since Sex and The City ended. HBO has been terrrible since Sex and The City ended.

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