The media regularly criticize it, deploring decadence of morals. In 1770 Oliver Goldsmith wrote "The Deserted Village", deploring rural depopulation. He opposed European colonization of the Americas, deploring the suffering it brought upon the natives. Raudos are musical forms sung at funerals, and also by shepherds deploring their fate. One complaint was submitted to TVB and Hong Kong's Broadcast Authority, deploring the drama's violence. At Gayane's home, people console Gayane who is deploring her husband's misconduct. Murray, however, whilst deploring the Committee's methods, privately thought Hunt would be the better leader. Only the right-wing press took a different view, deploring the play's apparently loose morality.