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BEIJING — In a bizarre move, China’s television censors have issued new guidelines that all but ban TV dramas featuring time travel.
In a statement[URL="http://www.sarft.gov.cn/articles/2011/03/31/20110331140820680073.html"] [/URL] dated March 31, the State Administration for Radio, Film & Television said that TV dramas that involve characters traveling back in time “lack positive thoughts and meaning.” The guidelines discouraging this type of show said that some “casually make up myths, have monstrous and weird plots, use absurd tactics, and even promote feudalism, superstition, fatalism and reincarnation.”
The guidelines, which fell short of an outright ban of such dramas, seem to have come in response to a series of popular programs about protagonists drifting back to ancient times. For instance, in "Palace," one of China's hottest TV series, a woman falls in love with a Qing dynasty painting, travels back in time and then falls in love with several princes.
“Palace” is broadcast on Hunan Television, a provincial network known for its popular programs, some of which are strong competitors of China’s main state-run broadcaster, China Central Television.
A spokesman for the State Administration declined Tuesday to elaborate on the reason behind the new guidelines. But the Chinese authorities are known for strictly censoring newspapers, film and TV programs that are deemed “unhealthy.”[/quote]
Source: [url]http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/12/making-tv-safer-chinese-censors-crack-down-on-time-travel/[/url]
Found this to be pretty funny, so I guess they won't get to see Back To the Future?
That's heavy
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[quote]“lack positive thoughts and meaning.”[/quote]
Science isn't a positive thought anymore?
I kind of have to agree with China here, I absolutely hate time travel plots.
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Good, now all information of my machine will be suppressed.
Anybody reading this post will have their computers seized tomorrow.
So...
They got rid of all television involving time travel because they don't like a popular show that happens to be based on time travel. It's like Facepunch in there.
So, Doctor Who is out of the question then...
Obviously Doc's comment that "Where we're going we don't need roads" was a veiled criticism of the Chinese transportation system.
For a second, I actually thought they banned actual time travel.
Not as funny knowing they just ban it on TV.
[QUOTE=Mingebox;29157958]I kind of have to agree with China here, I absolutely hate time travel plots.[/QUOTE]
Stupid reason to ban them though.
China, you so wierd.
So the chinese government obviously has time travel technology, they just don't want citizens to learn how it works from TV?
So are they not allowed to look at the stars?
[QUOTE=snake eye;29158155]So the chinese government obviously has time travel technology, they just don't want citizens to learn how it works from TV?[/QUOTE]
[img]http://richardmknight.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/mao-time-travel_thumb.png?w=244&h=233[/img]
But then you miss out on this gem:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WH-8FFOdh5o[/media]
[QUOTE=GunFox;29158210]But then you miss out on this gem:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WH-8FFOdh5o[/media][/QUOTE]
Thats chinese?
Thought it was japanese.....japan is full of wierd shit.
"We now forbid shows having time travel plots. Seriously guys, they're stupid. There's like 50 different time travel methods across fiction and nobody can decide which one to use. It's getting ridiculous. And that stupid 'Palace' show reminds us too much of Twilight. Which is also banned.
We also ban any and all showings or references to Lost. I mean, really, what the fuck."
-The Chinese Government
[QUOTE=Last or First;29158287]"We now forbid shows having time travel plots. Seriously guys, they're stupid. There's like 50 different time travel methods across fiction and nobody can decide which one to use. It's getting ridiculous. And that stupid 'Palace' show reminds us too much of Twilight. Which is also banned.
We also ban any and all showings or references to Lost. I mean, really, what the fuck."
-The Chinese Government[/QUOTE]
Bingo.
[QUOTE=User;29158230]Thats chinese?
Thought it was japanese.....japan is full of wierd shit.[/QUOTE]
Nah, Chinese.
[QUOTE=GunFox;29158316]Nah, Chinese.[/QUOTE]
Am I racist if I can't tell the difference? :c
[QUOTE=madmax678;29158049]So, Doctor Who is out of the question then...[/QUOTE]
Doctor Hu-Yung-Si.
[QUOTE=User;29158344]Am I racist if I can't tell the difference? :c[/QUOTE]
Between two cultures that likely exist on the opposite of side the earth from you? Not really.
The Chinese government is arguably a little too late to stop Time Travel.
[QUOTE=GunFox;29158210]But then you miss out on this gem:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WH-8FFOdh5o[/media][/QUOTE]
That was possibly the awesomest commercial I have ever seen.
You guys are begging the issue, just travel back in time to before they banned it and you can time travel all you want
[QUOTE=Sir Tristan;29158621]You guys are begging the issue, just travel back in time to before they banned it and you can time travel all you want[/QUOTE]
That sounds like something Hitler would say.
They'd have to impose a law which stated that time travel had always been going to have already been put in place and would always exist forever that time travel was banned.
Yeah, I can see why they just banned it.
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