China Bans Time Travel (Movies)
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Well, all my favorite Trek episodes are illegal in china now...
Gee, China, there's this new thing called 'Fiction', maybe you've heard of it? Its where you make up cool stuff that never happened. It's kinda been big in the rest of the world for, oh, 500 years maybe?
Arguably you could say even longer since ancient Greece. (Mythology is after all fiction right?)aashell13 said:
It's disgusting that this is happening, just the CCP tightening their grip on the people. One of these days, its going to come back and bite them in the ass.
Well, this also be about the government feeling uncomfortable with an explosion of media that is about escaping to a pre-Communist past.
Whenever people escape *to* somewhere, they are also escaping *from* somewhere. In these cases Chinese nationals are escaping from a present that is run by a government...that would ban stories about Time Travel.
Whenever people escape *to* somewhere, they are also escaping *from* somewhere. In these cases Chinese nationals are escaping from a present that is run by a government...that would ban stories about Time Travel.
Not entirely true, no one knows for sure how many people were killed or arrested during the Tiananmen Square Massacre. Though when you take a crowd that big and start shooting into it with machine guns, and rolling out tanks to run them over the number cant be a small one.Colinmac93 said:
To this day no one knows how many people are STILL in prison from that day. It's sad, we argue that we need to go to war in Libya, Iraq and Afghanistan because of their crimes against humanity, and then we ignore the biggest perpetrator of that crime. If I were to become president I would start a new campaign, I'd call it:
DEATH TO DICTATORS
ACCEPT DEMOCRACY- OR GET THE FUCK OUT
So the Chinese can't watch Back to the Future? I feel sorry for them. Well I already feel sorry for them for living in China in the first place, but anyway...
Now that you mention it, yeah I can't think of a TV show that hasn't at least MENTIONED time travel at some point or other.Raregolddragon said:
Yes, they've heard of it. It is the basis for most of their government, after all.aashell13 said:
Aren't you a dictator for saying that?Rex Fallout said:
More OT: Would Dr. Who and Star Trek even be allowed in China anyway? Don't they both sort of explore ideas of personal freedom and morality that an oppressive regime might find slightly dangerous? I'm betting this ban has more to do with the idea that some Chinese filmmakers were mocking important historical figures in a way the government thought was damaging to its image. Kind of like a lesser version of Islam's no Mohammad picture thing.
How so? People are allowed to believe whatever they want, but when they come into power, censor the masses, and kill innocent people, how can we tolerate them?drakythe said:
Not true, the Soviet Union had awesome television and movies.Raregolddragon said:
Some really, really good stuff.
Here's a thought. In the future, time-travelling stories would have been part of chinese history, but by banning them, the chinese government has frivolously changed the future history of china. The very existence of this ban is in direct violation of the reasons this ban was brought into effect. They might as well go and divide by zero while they're at it...
As if Asia wasn't bad enough.
So, you're ruining Back to the Future fanboys' hopes and dreams, and you're under-going an intense, murderous, and dangerous earthquake that has killed Hundreds.
Not a very good Reputation, if I do say so myself.
So, you're ruining Back to the Future fanboys' hopes and dreams, and you're under-going an intense, murderous, and dangerous earthquake that has killed Hundreds.
Not a very good Reputation, if I do say so myself.
It's actually fairly simple. The entire concept of changing history can be (and almost certainly has been) used to undermine the existing government. I'm betting someone came up with a movie where someone went back in time, somehow stopped the Cultural Revolution, and everything became sunshine and flowers.pandasaw said:
Governments like the Chinese can't allow works like that to exist, or they will cease to be a government. I'm thinking a relatively recent movie/work that crosses the party line combined with the recent unrest/outright rebellion in Egypt and Libya that is motivating this ban.