Completely forgot to mention those in my list as well as house of cards. Shame on me
Star Trek Discovery to drop F-bomb (at least twice)
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If Discovery is as good as The Expanse, preferably better of course, I'd be good with it. The Expanse is excellent, as is Westworld.
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In Canada we need to subscribe to the space channel to see discovery, it's just a cable channel. That also let's me see the expanse as it airs, I saw the first season at a friend's house and loved it. So $6.99 for (hopefully) two great Scifis is definitely worth it for me.
I should have known this would be a waste of time and effort.
I do hope that those who choose to watch Discovery find it enjoyable. See ya round.
I do hope that those who choose to watch Discovery find it enjoyable. See ya round.
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I watched The Gamester of Triskelion for the first time that I can remember, and I was pretty shocked by the whole implied rape or attempted rape of Uhura.
Are those the arguments people are making?
"Outgrew it"? Really? Sorry the idea that nudity, sex or expletives are childish is absurd. Perhaps when as as a child and they were forbidden there's a thrill in seeing a nude body or a hearing a bad word but growing is supposed to change that.
Your values don't allow hearing a word? Did you feel the same abouts Kirk "hell" or Picard's "merde"? Do you skip those episodes?
I think people are trying to understand why more than looking to change your mind
There’s the option of CraveTV as well.
CBS are, in essence, saying nothing of the sort. You're saying that and projecting it onto them. Don't imagine that they sat around contemplating how to make people compromise their values or any such nonsense. They just figured most of their audience wouldn't be bothered by a couple of f-bombs and since they were liberated from the usual constraints of network television since they're streaming, they pushed the envelope a bit.
"Fuck" will be SOP for cable-network shows within five years to the point it will be considered TV-14. Suits has already come so close several times this season that they may have well just gone ahead.
"Shit" isn't that far away from prime time broadcast, either.
"Shit" isn't that far away from prime time broadcast, either.
Which just goes again to prove that modern television is dreck.
No. If anything, it proves the FCC is realizing that most people talk like that in 2017.
Why would one word make a hundred or more TV shows dreck?
No fucks given yet!
No fucks given yet!
I'm still trying to decide on whether to give a fuck. I think two fucks might be a bit much at this point.
The word is considered the most vulgar expression in existence for the vagina. I don't know why anyone would want to be referred to in that way.
On the contrary, from what I've heard, it's not uncommon for males to call good male friends that as an earthy expression of endearment. Considering the etymology, that's kind of puzzling to someone accustomed to American English.
Edit: I missssspelted "etymology."
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I could just as easily ask "Why do people in the UK and Ireland find 'spaz' so offensive?" (I'm assuming people in Ireland also considers it offensive. If not, disregard that). In the US that's generally not considered a big deal (though it's certainly an insult, albeit a mild one), because the word doesn't carry the same history and weight here, and has largely been divorced from its original connection with describing/mocking the disabled. It's more like calling someone a nerd or awkward or hyper here. Though it's rarely used anymore anyway. That's just how the spread of language works, we don't all put the same emphasis on the same things.
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I'm not American. I keep hearing how every other Australian uses as you defined it (and I personally agree) "the most vulgar expression in existence for the vagina". As a woman, just as me, I find it offensive and its apparent common usage doesn't make it any less so. Just so not buying the argument that something is made less offensive if it is repeated enough. That whole mantra is about being desensitised.
Well what exactly were you trying to achieve?
Did you expect everyone to agree with you and boycott discovery?
I welcome a little more natural language in Trek.
A llittle voice is telling me all this is part of the US puritanical hangups. No f words please , but shoot that commie/klingon bastard up all you want!
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