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Mike McMahan adds the bleeps to the show, not CBS.
Mike McMahan adds the bleeps to the show, not CBS.
News Lower Decks is self-censored
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People were thinking this was a mandate by CBS?
Yeah, what the (bleep)? This doesn't make any (bleep)ing sense.
Although I am curious if they record those unbleeped and censor later, or if they use placeholder words and censor those. An "unbleeped" version would be impossible (barring an expensive re-record of select lines) with the latter.
Dropping F-bombs doesn't fit the tone of Lower Decks and bleeping them out is funnier.
Lower Decks also wants to call back to the tone of TNG, DS9, and VOY. Discovery and Picard don't. Picard, especially, wants to fight it. Each of these shows are different by design. They want to be tonally different from each other.
Lower Decks also wants to call back to the tone of TNG, DS9, and VOY. Discovery and Picard don't. Picard, especially, wants to fight it. Each of these shows are different by design. They want to be tonally different from each other.
I was wondering. I'd love it if they had the option of the listening to the unbleeped tracks (or more precisely, episodes sans the bleeps) on Blu-ray. But there is an element of humor in the bleeping, one that is probably dependent upon having watched TV with dialog bleeped out, so I do get why it ads to the level of humor to bleep it.
Bleeps are kind of funny sometimes.
I think there is a whole YouTube channel dedicated to adding unnecessary bleeps to perfectly in innocent scenes of movies and tv shows to make them sound dirty and funny.
Taylor Swift did it in a music video too.
And, yeah, I think it's part of the humor of it and didn't think CBS mandated anything. Just part of the tone.
And finally, honestly, who cares?
Have you seen the topics that get discussed on TrekBBS? We discuss how Star Trek episodes are made, and what sorts of decisions that creators, writers, directors, producers make during that process. The origin of the bleeps accordingly is something that the people who post here care about.
Sounds like Harry Potter, with the word "wand" replaced with "penis".
Not exactly a novel concept, Jimmy Kimmel Live has been doing "This Week in Unnecessary Censorship" for like 15 years now.
I never doubted it. The bleeps are what make it funny.
I'm more amused some thought CBS mandated it.
*sensible chuckle*
Well, yeah; there are different types of caring: there's not minding that it was done, and there's also having no interest in it whatsoever.
When I worked in local TV, I used to be in charge of making a video for the station's Christmas party; usual on air bloopers and cheesy crap like that. Some of the biggest laughs I got where I "bleeped," the innocent stuff making the viewer's mind go to a dirty place.
So yeah, what others ahead of me have already said, for a show like this; bleeping makes it funnier.
So yeah, what others ahead of me have already said, for a show like this; bleeping makes it funnier.
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