China bans time travel

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On TV, at least...

Making TV Safer: Chinese Censors Crack Down on Time Travel
By DAVID BARBOZA
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 (available here in Chinese) 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.”

I guess they won't be getting the new series of Doctor Who.

 

[Finn]

Even Family Matters. Generations of Chinese kids would grow up without the privilige of knowing who Urkel is.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Ignorant nonsense. You must do better, China!

 

[Lindley]

This time they've gone too far!

 

[Robert Maxwell]

Chinese TV must be really dull.

 

[Shatnertage]

What's next? Running low on dilithium can't be used as a plot point? No conflict among the crew?

 

[bigdaddy]

No reincarnation I find funny and sad at the same time.

It will be a good day when China's dictatorship falls.

And hopefully the two billion Chinese will have a Doctor Who marathon that day.

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

Why not ban the depiction of time travel into the future while they're at it? It might depict the end of their one-party state.

 

[SPOCKED]

Vote the communist bastards OUT!!!

 

[Servo]

At this point they might as well just go all out and ban imagination.

 

[bigdaddy]

At this point they might as well just go all out and ban imagination.

They can try to do what American republicans always try to do, ban books, keep people stupid.

 

[ManOnTheWave]

Next, they will ban abstract thought as a whole.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

Next, they will ban abstract thought as a whole.

Imagination is dissidence! Abstract thought is dissidence! You will read, think, and speak only what the State wishes.

 

[infinix]

This is the beginning of the Temporal Police.

THE PARTY SHALL RULE THROUGH ALL OF THE MULTIVERSE.

That reminds me. What will they do with shows like Quantum Leap? It ain't time travel, but it explores alternate timelines.

 

[infinix]

They can try to do what American republicans always try to do, ban books, keep people stupid.

Are you serious? When has republicans done this? I live in a blue state, so I probably just haven't experienced it.

 

[Finn]

^ [Jack O'Neill]What?[/Jack O'Neill]

Isn't it time travel. I don't see how it is an exploration of alternate timelines, since the timeline (for the plot characters) wouldn't be changed until the end of the episode....

 

[Robert Maxwell]

This is the beginning of the Temporal Police.

THE PARTY SHALL RULE THROUGH ALL OF THE MULTIVERSE.

That reminds me. What will they do with shows like Quantum Leap? It ain't time travel, but it explores alternate timelines.

QL is definitely a time travel show.

 

[ManOnTheWave]

Next, they will ban abstract thought as a whole.

Imagination is dissidence! Abstract thought is dissidence! You will read, think, and speak only what the State wishes.

Also qualifying as dissidence: rainbows, puppy dogs, and blow jobs.

It's true.

 

[Captain Ice]

^Agreed. Someone hasn't watched any QL in a while. QL would be much, much duller if he didn't have to figure out when he was every week in addition to who and where.

 

[Ethros]

At least they won't ever have to watch Crime Traveller