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Life on Mars, Quantum Leap, Doctor Who and Star Treks 4, 8 and 11 now banned in China

RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
edited April 2011 in Social Entropy++
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New guidelines issued on March 31 discourages plot lines that contain elements of "fantasy, time-travel, random compilations of mythical stories, bizarre plots, absurd techniques, even propagating feudal superstitions, fatalism and reincarnation, ambiguous moral lessons, and a lack of positive thinking."

“The government says … TV dramas shouldn’t have characters that travel back in time and rewrite history. They say this goes against Chinese heritage,” reports CNN’s Eunice Yoon. “They also say that myth, superstitions and reincarnation are all questionable.”

As Scott Bakula would say, "Oh Boy..."

Also, Time Travel thread. Null and Void in China, of course.

Anybody else catch the big game next month?

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  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited April 2011
    Let's do the Time Warp Again in the Gulag.

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  • EdcrabEdcrab Actually a hack Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    Dammit, China. When I said I was tired of time travel being used as a crutch by bad writers I didn't mean for you to do this

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  • Vargas PrimeVargas Prime King of Nothing Just a ShowRegistered User regular
    edited April 2011
    Hey you know what time travel show was really fucking good and got cancelled way to goddamn early?

    Journeyman

    Still fucking pissed about that show.

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  • WietWiet Mao Mao Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    Great Scott!

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  • RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    I am a time traveller. I lay within my time machine, put the chronotonically coated shielding (blanket) over my body, fluff the temporal synchronization drives (pillows), and usually between seven and nine hours pass!

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  • SenorTacosSenorTacos Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    Obviously this means that China have been working on or have a real time machine!

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  • MysstMysst King Monkey of Hedonism IslandRegistered User regular
    edited April 2011
    wait, they didn't rewrite history in the voyage home!

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  • Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    SenorTacos wrote: »
    Obviously this means that China have been working on or have a real time machine!

    No, they don't want anyone there to be inspired to build one.

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  • RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    Mysst wrote: »
    wait, they didn't rewrite history in the voyage home!

    They changed the year 2286 from "The year everyone on Earth got boiled by a giant aerosol can" to "The year Spock said he feels fine".

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  • NaphtaliNaphtali Hazy + Flow SeaRegistered User regular
    edited April 2011
    God dammit!

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  • Viscount IslandsViscount Islands [INSERT SoKo HERE] ...it was the summer of my lifeRegistered User regular
    edited April 2011
    Contact Ziggy

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  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    edited April 2011
    but I'm currently travelling forward in time at a rate of one second per second!

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  • KlykaKlyka DO you have any SPARE BATTERIES?Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    China.
    "We don't need no fantasy."

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  • EdcrabEdcrab Actually a hack Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    Maybe next week Sam will talk to Al and someone will think he's crazy, because they can't see Al!

    Ha ha. Golden.

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  • LiiyaLiiya Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    Life On Mars was fantastic.

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  • HunterHunter Chemist with a heart of Au Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    Wow, Bill and Ted must be inconsolable upon reading this news.

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  • FerrusFerrus Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    China: Where time travel fiction is superstition but eating a tigers balls is respectable traditional medicine.

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    And Disney World is nowhere in sight.
  • HunterHunter Chemist with a heart of Au Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    Ferrus wrote: »
    China: Where time travel fiction is superstition but eating a tigers balls is respectable traditional medicine.

    Chase down some tiger balls with a shot of bear gall bladder juice and your liver and other humors will be happier for it. Also, your dick will have raging boners for days.

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  • takyristakyris Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    That's good. I was worried about them picking up American military secrets from watching the Terminator movies, anyway.


    Wait wait wait. Doesn't that mean that this Jet Li/Jackie Chan movie is illegal as well? Or The One? I mean, I wouldn't call those great movies by any stretch, but if you cut off Jet Li, you're cutting off Fist of Legend, and I don't see China going there.

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  • FerrusFerrus Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    Hunter wrote: »
    Ferrus wrote: »
    China: Where time travel fiction is superstition but eating a tigers balls is respectable traditional medicine.

    Chase down some tiger balls with a shot of bear gall bladder juice and your liver and other humors will be happier for it. Also, your dick will have raging boners for days.

    Good thing we have...

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    I would like to pause for a moment, to talk about my penis.
    My penis is like a toddler. A toddler—who is a perfectly normal size for his age—on a long road trip to what he thinks is Disney World. My penis is excited because he hasn’t been to Disney World in a long, long time, but remembers a time when he used to go every day. So now the penis toddler is constantly fidgeting, whining “Are we there yet? Are we there yet? How about now? Now? How about... now?”
    And Disney World is nowhere in sight.
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