Not realistic

[Furienna]

Originally Posted by Edward216

I agree the show was pretty realistic for the most part, but it did seem to push more liberal ideas and values.

You have to remember that it takes place in this era, when women still had very few rights, ethnical minorities had to face discrimination on a regular basis, and etc. The writers had to be liberal compared to what many people back then were, or they would have had to defend things like sexism and racism.

Originally Posted by Edward216

I remember a friend of mine saying once it was basically 19th century life with a more 20th century attitude.

It was of course written in the 1990s, not the 1870s. So again, what did you expect the writers to do? Defend that women hardly even had the right to vote, or that a black man was almost hung just for buying a house in a "white" neighborhood?

Originally Posted by Edward216

I really enjoyed it, but they started advocating more stuff I just don't agree with. After the episode where they basically promoted evolution and the idea that God could've used evolution to make the Earth and the universe I gave up on it.

Evolution is now considered to be a scientific fact. I know that some people still refuse to accept this, but you can't expect a TV show to share all your beliefs. And besides, that was only one episode out of the six seasons of this show. But if you don't want to give it a second chance, that is your loss.

[pkripper001]

I never liked Cosby Show, but I did like Cosby in his Show before that where he played the coach.The main reason that I think CBS canceled it was because it wasn't
making money on Dr.Quinn.
There were millions of people out there that valued the show as a family show.

[Tankeryanker]

I watch it from time to time. Nothing wrong with conservative values or liberal values.
Pulling yourself up by your bootstraps is great, but you got to get the bootstraps to pull up in the first place.

[Edward216]

And what's your point Furienna? Slavery (the owning of other humans as property) was once accepted as a fact of life too, that didn't make it right. You can say all you want that evolution is a "scientific fact" but that doesn't make it true. But I don't have the time or the energy to waste arguing with you about it.

Ed.

[Furienna]

Yet again, evolution was only discussed in one episode out of 149! One episode out of six seasons! There are some epsiodes on this show, that I don't like either. But that doesn't keep me from enjoying the other 140+ epsiodes. And if that makes you feel better, most of the characters in that episode did not believe in evolution. Just like most people didn't do back in 1870.

[Babalu]

Originally Posted by Tankeryanker

Nothing wrong with conservative values or liberal values.

The problem is not conservative or liberal values.

The problem is that TV has only liberal values. Conservative writers don't exist in Hollywood.

And the ironic part of that is that Hollywood liberals never stop complaining about the 1950's blacklist against communists yet they have done the same thing for the last 50 years against anyone that's not a radical liberal.

[Tankeryanker]

Originally Posted by Babalu

The problem is not conservative or liberal values.

The problem is that TV has only liberal values. Conservative writers don't exist in Hollywood.

And the ironic part of that is that Hollywood liberals never stop complaining about the 1950's blacklist against communists yet they have done the same thing for the last 50 years against anyone that's not a radical liberal.

Gotcha

[Furienna]

Originally Posted by Babalu

The problem is not conservative or liberal values.

The problem is that TV has only liberal values. Conservative writers don't exist in Hollywood.

And the ironic part of that is that Hollywood liberals never stop complaining about the 1950's blacklist against communists yet they have done the same thing for the last 50 years against anyone that's not a radical liberal.

And yet, "Dr Quinn" generally gave us a portrayal of Christian faith.
That is not what you expect from Hollywood radicals.

(And by the way, they are not Liberals and shouldn't be called that.)