Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elf Witch" data-source="post: 5828620" data-attributes="member: 9037">I watch a lot of medical shows and I don't know of any where the seriously injured always live. Not since the days of Medical Center and Marcus Welby.Even on House they have been known to kill of patients and characters. Most of the time they don't because the focus of the medical part is diagnosing the illness.As for adventure series again it really depends on the tone of the show. Take 24 they killed people right an left. But since each episode is set in one day they don't really do a lot of character development or give a lot of character background. What makes 24 exciting is the adrenaline pumping action.But say a show like Burn Notice the action part of the show is only part of the appeal. There is also the relationships between Fi and Michael, Michael and his mother, Sam and Fi. There has the background development of all the characters. Start killing of those characters and the show changes. If you look through the history of TV you will find that more often then not changing a show often leads to lower ratings. On most crime solving shows they solve the crime that is very unrealistic yet I doubt they would be popular if more than half of their cases go unsolved. I find it amusing when people complain over the heroes getting out of dangerous situations but they willing accept other non realistic stuff. Like the two part episode on Castle yeah sure the CIA are going to bring a writer and a local cop into an investigation like that. Or the fact that NYPD homicide detectives have the luxury of working on one case at a time.</blockquote>

Verification