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Beheading scene cut from Robot of Sherwood
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Knee jerk reaction or justified?
Knee jerk reaction or justified?
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These kinds of things are very wishy washy. If you have something that could not possibly offend anyone in any way, then you have something that is unchallenging and bland, even if it's a family show, because people can be offended by anything. People here get offended by a slap so out of respect to them should the BBC remove any such scenes?
As long as it gets reinstated long-term I'm not much bothered but I think it's a far from necessary decision.
For those who agree with this: when should they be able to have a beheading in a drama programme again? How much time has to elapse? Not too much I hope because we will be waiting forever otherwise. Executions and murders happen in the world every single day.
Especially if it was a 'comic' beheading. That just wouldn't play right now.
But that person would be an idiot.
I think it's grossly insensitive of you to use the phrase "no brainer" in the circumstances
The etiquette of how soon is too soon after such tragedies is always open to debate. After the Hungerford and Dunblane shootings, tv schedules were scoured for any content relating to guns. Eventually programming returned to 'normal' with gun crime programmes and films aplenty. Should tv bosses have made a stand and said no, we're showing Die Hard anyway? no of course not, it would have added to the public's grief and anger, and those who made the decision would have been hounded out their jobs.
Programmes are pulled when news items get into the public's conscious, usually helped by intense news coverage. It is done out of respect for those involved, for the public and for a bit of self-preservation. If a friend or work colleague has a family bereavement, you don't tell them a dark humoured joke about death, even if the previous week they would have found it hilarious, and in time they will again.
As for the specific event sparking the change to Saturday's show, the callous brutal nature of the killings were clearly stage managed to get maximum global attention, they succeeded. In my opinion the decision to re-edit the show is the right one. Not to do so would have brought a lot of criticism heaped on the BBC, when the real focus of condemnation should be the sub human scum responsible for the barbarism.
Agreed.
However, I'd rather they risk offending some people than butcher the episode and make it have a gaping hole in the story.
The scene should also be included in the DVD release.
This is the programme that brought you the Headless Monks and (going further back) The Brain of Morbius and The Five Doctors. It's not that surprising.