Writers.....

I don't think the characters of a story or a TV show nessacarily represent what the writers believe. At times, yes, maybe they do. But I think writers aim towards pleasing the audience and the audience is going to be made up of a variety of people. There are aspects of many beliefs and values in TV shows. Writers pull from all types of sources to create something new and original. I believe they will occationally include their own beliefs but we have no way of determining which beliefs those are out of the vast amount represented in TV shows. To be a writer you have to depict situations and elements of life that maybe you do not agree with but you think should be included in the script your writing. Writers know not everyone gunna like it and not everyones gunna dislike it, there will always be controversy. They can only hope that somewhere it spoke to someone, made someone laugh, made someone cry, made someone think, etc.