As a matter of fact, they ate it up and asked for more. "If viewers tell me it's too violent, then I'll tone it down," he said. And I have to hand it to him in the end, he applied the wisest standard. Now, I don't know that the average Walker fan thought the Texas Ranger and his foes were real, but I get the actor's point. We build the bad guy up to a point where the viewers say, 'If Walker isn't going to do something, I'll go kick his butt myself!'" " say we're the most violent show on TV that's not a cartoon, but they don't evaluate the morality behind the violence. "It's not fighting for fighting's sake," he said in 1996. And besides, the good guys do win the fights." He gets the dirty work over with quickly, as if his punches were just a dose of yucky medicine that society must take for its own good. Yet there is also an odd sense of decency about the violence on Walker. And that does bother me it makes violence look so neat and easy. "No matter how intense the action, he never breaks a sweat, grimaces, worries, or so much as says 'ouch.' He just beats up bad guys and leaves. "He does all this with the bored demeanor of a man mowing his yard," Jarvis wrote. TV Guide critic Jeff Jarvis, too, had reservations about the show, which debuted on CBS' Saturday-night schedule in April 1993, noting that every episode contained at least one scene where Norris put a world of hurt on some lowlife. Plenty of people wondered why back then, too, but just as many people watched, so the ratings had the final say.
Nevertheless, you're not alone in wondering why a show that portrayed justice as a boot to the skull (ever think about how much it would hurt to get kicked in the head with a Tony Lama?) was hailed as a family experience. And I'm thinking, he has no idea if that guy's actually done anything or not, and he also has no clue as to what's in those crates, which could be full of pipes for all he knows. I remember watching a Walker episode in which Walker entered a warehouse full of (we were to assume) bad guys and sent one of them flying over a railing into a pile of wooden crates below, all without one word of conversation. It was, at least, one of the most violent network shows at the time. However, from a network-TV point of view, you've still got a point. But I caught a few reruns recently, and it's the most violent show on the planet! What was CBS thinking, promoting that as a family show? Am I nuts on this?Īnswer: The most violent show, Craig? I think if you caught Vic Mackey holding a bad guy's head to a stove burner on FX, or the recent gladiator sequence on HBO's Rome, you'd back off a bit on that statement. Question: I was allowed to watch Walker, Texas Ranger when I was a kid because my folks thought it was a good family show.
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