I’ve been watching season one of Torchwood on Youtube whenever Lin is watching something on TV I don’t care for, and I noticed something. The episodes shown in the USA are edited to protect America’s prudish sensibilities … and to fit in 18 minutes of commercials. With further investigation, it turns out that Dr. Who is also touched by editing too, in some cases quite broadly. I am finding myself more than a little peeved.
While I have seen things that were cut from both Torchwood and Dr. Who episodes, none of them were anything I would think would get anyone but the most conservative Christian fundamentals into a lather, and in some instances, the deleted bits change the make-up of a character or the way a story flows. I guess my eyes and ears are apparently far less tender than my fellow Americans. It looks like I will have to get my hands on the DVDs or learn how to use file sharing, if I want to see the episodes of both these shows as they were intended to be seen.
Stupid America and its stupid “protect the children” attitudes.
More telling than the editing of TV fiction is the editing of everyday reality.
It’s been a long time since I’ve used file sharing, but even then it involved little more than downloading an anonymous tweak and letting it fly.
The editing of reality I have come to expect. The rule around this house is believe nothing you see on TV until you have verified it. Sad. I didn’t expect silly British scifi to be edited to within an inch of its life though.
Speaking of reality editing: there was nothing on this morning, and the weather was gross, so we were sitting on the couch watching things we normally wouldn’t watch … like Man vs. Wild. A helicopter was dropping this guy off on top of a mountain plateau in some desert. It was being played up all dramatic, like dropping him off was some big hairy event. He jumped and rolled out of the door of the helicopter all breathless and freaked out, but in the background, for just a split second (when we watched it in slow motion), the chopper was sitting firmly on the ground. He could have just stepped out of the thing. But then that wouldn’t have been NEARLY as exciting, now would it? :rolleyes:
I really don’t like TV very much.
How can you cut Torchwood to make it suitable for children? I mean what was the gas alien coming to earth for? Twinkies?
Yeah, Torchwood isn’t an especially kid-friendly show, even minus cussing and buttocks and sex. Loads of adult concepts going on to be sure what with sex hungry gas aliens and affairs and whatever kind of sexuality Jack is having at the moment. :lol:
Which, of course, is why I like it. I get tired of watching stuff designed for kids. Sure, that can be fun, but sometimes I want to be an adult.