{"id":6677,"date":"2011-08-31T07:14:58","date_gmt":"2011-08-31T11:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/news\/?p=6677"},"modified":"2011-08-29T17:16:28","modified_gmt":"2011-08-29T21:16:28","slug":"chuck-colson-bbc-attempts-to-mainstream-pedophiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2011\/08\/chuck-colson-bbc-attempts-to-mainstream-pedophiles","title":{"rendered":"Chuck Colson: BBC attempts to mainstream pedophiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four years ago, the BBC decided to capitalize on the immense popularity of the long-running <em>Doctor Who<\/em> series by creating a spin-off called <em>Torchwood.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Whereas <em>Doctor Who<\/em> is, apart from the intensity of its stories, safe for the whole family, producers said that <em>Torchwood<\/em> would be \u201cdark, clever, wild, [and] sexy,\u201d reports Christian author Chuck Colson.\u00a0\u201c<em>Doctor Who<\/em> for adults\u201d is what they called it.<\/p>\n<p>As a colleague wrote at the time, a better word to describe the show is \u201cnihilistic\u201d\u00a0&#8212; it\u2019s a judgment that\u2019s reinforced by the show\u2019s newest character.<\/p>\n<p>While Torchwood is certainly dark, it\u2019s rarely, if ever, been all that \u201cclever,\u201d especially when measured against the standard set by <em>Doctor Who<\/em> and other science fiction classics, observes Colson:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Instead, the show has substituted transgression for originality. Specifically, sexual transgression. The lead character, Captain Jack Harkness, can best be described as an \u201comni-sexual.\u201d While the rest of his team, all but one of whom were killed, may not have successfully emulated his alien-fighting skills, they did manage to learn from his sexual example: extramarital affairs, same-sex experimentation were all in a day\u2019s work for the Torchwood team.<\/p>\n<p>For the fourth season, entitled \u201cMiracle Day,\u201d the writers ratcheted up the transgression: The newest character, Oswald Jones, is a pedophile. Yes, you heard me correctly.<\/p>\n<p>Jones, played by actor Bill Pullman, is a convicted pedophile-murderer who is released on a technicality. While he\u2019s far from the first pedophile to be depicted on television, he is undoubtedly the first depicted in a way that prompts the audience to root for him.<\/p>\n<p>John Barrowman, the openly-gay actor who plays Harkness, said: \u201cThe interesting thing about [having a pedophile man character] that is that the audience is going to be torn, because they\u2019re going to not like him for what he\u2019s done \u2014 but they\u2019re gonna like him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/news\/yesterdays-taboos-torchwood-pedophilia-and-a-dying-culture\" target=\"_blank\">CLICK HERE to read more<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four years ago, the BBC decided to capitalize on the immense popularity of the long-running Doctor Who series by creating a spin-off called Torchwood. 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