Why are TV fight scenes all so similarly dull?

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http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/...been_less.html

"These are a very specific kind of fight scene,” says Willa Paskin. "Monster punches are thrown, but are only ever filmed from behind the person being hit, so the punches never have to land. Furniture is broken and guns are brandished but dropped. The protagonist either wins (if the fight takes place at the end of the episode), or loses in some inconsequential way (if it takes place in the middle). The outcome is never in doubt. You can fast-forward, go the bathroom, text or read the Internet while these fights are taking place and miss nothing. I know because that’s what I do every single time one comes on.”