Robert Thompson Quotes
There's no reason to believe if you had a whole bunch of really grisly stories -- and I'm sure there are grisly stories out there -- people wouldn't watch them. 
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People watch four or five hours of coverage of a very sad story. Humor has always been a way to smooth that over. It's one of the ways you can process things.
- Robert Thompson
The thing that science fiction does is what nobody on TV does - outside the news. It looks at the enormous issues of equality, war, feminism, racism, international relations - big, big stories ignored by mainstream TV for obvious reasons. Science fiction is the easiest way to deal with it.
- Robert Thompson