Episodes recut for different markets
It’s an interesting and complex issue. I really understand about the youngsters seeing stuff on TV that we wouldn’t like them to watch, but the sanitised formula can be taken too far.
Some shows go so far as to twist the show so that it has a moral standpoint which fits completely outside the storyline but presumably ‘in’ with the censors.
For instance, I have just watched an episode of Stargate where SG1 go to a planet set in medieval times. They are accused of being demons and that the real baddie is non other than God. Daniel points out that the big baddies isn’t being God, but the Devil and yet it would have been more accurate to have the big baddie depicted as God, since more violence (at least in medieval times) and misery was caused in Gods name than in the Devils.
This fiddling with the storyline and editing of TV shows (I’m sure the show was edited to fit in with the moral standpoint of the censors) is patronising. No boobs and cut violence is also patronising since it means we have to suffer at the hands of the censors scalpel.
On the other hand, if yer gonna show violence and sex then it should be done realistically. As as ex-doorman, I’ve nevver seen a fight depicetd on TV that was a bloody or violent as in real life, and I’ve certainly never made love the way they do on TV (God! I’d have fallen asleep [img]http://www.sadgeezer.com/ubb/smile.gif[/img] ) – Though I am not sure if I’d want to see that sort of thing on my TV screen.
I’m definately in favour of the watershed (violence and nudity late at night), but I’m not in favour or gratuitous cuts in the episode AFTER the watershed. I just don’t like the idea of some geezer deciding what I can and can’t watch on my own TV screen in my own home.
I fully accept that my views are not shared by all, but it’s such an interesting topic, I just had to express my own feelings.
By the way LEXXFan, I know how it feels (sort of) the most embarrassing episode for me was when I watched Wake the Dead while my parents were in the room [img]http://www.sadgeezer.com/ubb/smile.gif[/img] )
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