Mature content disclaimer on SciFi (WAR STORIES)
POSTED BY: cwnek
UPDATED: Monday, November 28, 2005 18:41
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Call me crazy, but I though Fox didn't air Trash. It was one of those that premeired on the DVD first.
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You are right as was Ryce - my bad. A moment of temporary insanity - all the cleaning chemicals in the air getting ready for the family to arrive for the holiday made me think that Fox had aired Trash - but no - they did not.
I'm feeling much better now...and it was still hilarious to see the "fuzzied but"! So glad I have my shiny DVDs.
FYI - I have made 2 new converts over the weekend!! We have watched 6 of the episodes in the last two days and they want more!!! Sorry - didn't mean to hijack the thread, but it's always thrilling to get people addicted to it.
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"See, this is another sign of your tragic space dementia, all paranoid and crotchety. Breaks the heart."
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Standards have changed since Firefly first aired. The Janet Jackson incident was the trigger, but it's something the Christian Right has long been pushing for.
I dare say that several scenes that Fox originally aired would not make it past the broadcast-network censors today, possibly including the Inara sponge bath sequence.
FWIW, I agree with those who've been pointing out the hypocrisy of allowing graphic violence (and implied violence) while stamping out any reference to sexuality. In Mal's immortal words... "Huh."
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Ain't about you, Jayne. It's about what they need.
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Originally posted by DarkJester:
Anyone else notice during "Ariel" they censored Jayne's line "Smells like crotch!", leaving out the crotch? Too risque for cable?
MAL "You only gotta scare him."
JAYNE "Pain is scary..."
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They censored "smells like crotch". Simpsons is worse for cursing, they actually say things like, example "B*stards".
I would put crotch on the same level as crap, its like saying 'we are going to censor the word penis'
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Q: Why don't we just raise the defensive shields?
A: A superb suggestion with just two major drawbacks. One, we don't have any defensive shields. And two, we don't have any defensive shields. Technically speaking thats only one flaw, but it was such a big one I thought I mention it twice.
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Originally posted by DaisyCutter:
I would put crotch on the same level as crap, its like saying 'we are going to censor the word penis'
Actually, the Sci-Fi Channel did censor the word "putz" in a Sliders episode, simply because it's Yiddish for "penis."
The channel's attitude toward sex is, in the popular sense of the term, schizophrenic. When they bought Lexx, they promoted it with a sexed-up ad campaign and aired all the raunchiest (which were also the weakest) episodes first, destroying anyone's ability to follow the story arc and earning it a reputation as incomprehensible grade-Z would-be porn. And yet at the same time, they heavily censored it, chopping out scenes and dialogue and blurring out even the hint of a nipple under fabric.
It's a wonder they didn't start bleeping out "frell" on Farscape.
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The disclaimer specifically referred to the upcoming segment of the episode. I wondered if HEART OF GOLD would carry a similar warning prior to a scene in which an implied rape occurs (no warning). The disclaimer was there for the depiction of a woman-on-woman encounter. Fox provided no warning when the episode first aired, and received a lot of flack for it, even from fans on the Fox.com FF message board.
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