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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMr. Robot (TV Show) did not run tonight because somebody dies on the show. Bullshit!
The reason was something like: The shooting is a little like what happened today.
So I suppose the next time a man or woman is shot in this country, we'll have to stop all shows that have a man or woman shot on a make-believe show.
Americans love to wallow in self-sorrow.
yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)I don't watch the show but I know that some probably were disappointed because it was the season finale but it will be on next week.
cyberswede
(26,117 posts)http://www.comingsoon.net/tv/news/476221-mr-robot-season-finale-postponed
It won't hurt anybody to wait a week to see the episode.
BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)...being shot live on a news report or robbed or hungry or homeless or broke or stressed or over-work or sick and dying or hundreds of other ways.
What Americans CAN do is "Oh! Isn't that terrible?? What can we do to fix it? I know!! Not run a TV show tonight! (Sound the trumpets) DA_DA!!
Journeyman
(15,031 posts)joshcryer
(62,271 posts)A great show like Mr. Robot doesn't need to be tainted because it had a similar scene. Andy Greenwald (TV reviewer) made it abundantly clear here: http://grantland.com/hollywood-prospectus/why-usa-was-right-to-delay-the-mr-robot-finale/
BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)Although, it's quite possible I'm a little callous on the subject.
joshcryer
(62,271 posts)I see where you're coming from. I've seen a lot of internet shit. Gore, nastiness, whatever.
But I wish I could take it all back. All of it. Starting from the first gore I ever saw online just over a decade ago. As it stands now I can kind of look at it and it doesn't register (though the POV shooting video really struck with me).
In that vein I can imagine myself being someone who wasn't exposed to that shit. And I can't help but feel for them because, unlike myself, exposed to utter carnage for a decade or more, they're clean. Like I wish I would be.
It's a totally different reality for a lot of people.
Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)but I think this explanation should have been your original post, as it conveys your point with greater impact.
TDale313
(7,820 posts)A touch of empathy and sensitivity is not a bad thing. If they felt it would be insensitive to air it tonight I'll give them the benefit of the doubt.
BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)reformist2
(9,841 posts)BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)Orrex
(63,213 posts)Art imitates life imitates art.
LittleBlue
(10,362 posts)Won't support greater gun control but would freak out over *gasp* the fictional portrayal of a crime!
Lorien
(31,935 posts)n/t
Rex
(65,616 posts)If Hollywood really wanted to make an impact, it would refuse to show gun deaths on TVEE...but that would hurt the bottom line and as we know - money trumps all other issues.
DavidDvorkin
(19,479 posts)We know the difference between a TV show and reality.
gwheezie
(3,580 posts)I'll watch it next week. I'm more upset that real people are being killed.
Lorien
(31,935 posts)next week as well, because there seems to be one just about EVERY week, and still the masses just shrug and say "well, that's just the price of freedumb.."
joshcryer
(62,271 posts)My initial reaction was disappointment but then my reality clicked and yeah, it's just a TV show, and yeah, it'll be on next week. And yeah, first world problems.
olddots
(10,237 posts)"I don't worry bout a thing cuzz I know nothin is gonna work out right " the nature of TV is to pander as if it was a human being ,any disaster is a great way to sell more shit while they interupt normal programming . Its alive. the TV is alive !!!!!!!!!!!!! it is our freind in need. a freind indeed .
shit I miss Howdy Doody he reminds me of Wolf Blitzer only more poised .
LeftyMom
(49,212 posts)and pulled "The City of New York versus Homer Simpson" from syndication for years and years. And made last minute changes to upcoming fashion lines that were going to be middle east inspired. And changed album covers. Probably some other crap I'm forgetting.
Whether or not you're personally bothered by something, entertainment is a business and showing a little sensitivity to traumatized people is probably the best business move, in addition to being the high moral ground.
joshcryer
(62,271 posts)It's just a damn TV show. And yes it's my favorite TV show on right now and I was at first disappointed but it was the right thing to do.
BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)...happens in a make-believe show. Also IF I'm that truly saddened by all the death around me/us, the show being shown September 2 will "dredge up all those horrible memories".
joshcryer
(62,271 posts)If your wife/friend were killed you'd appreciate a show not showing some violence in a similar fashion.
You're not going to fucking tune in to a show which you know has violence in it the same day.
Utterly ridiculous.
BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)My parents died in a plane crash 2 days after the 9/11 thing and my sorrow was so great that seeing the planes crashing and killing all those people were like adding a 2 lb box to a loaded tractor-trailer.
But I respect your thoughts on the subject.
joshcryer
(62,271 posts)BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)Tsiyu
(18,186 posts)but they made the right call.
Delaying gratification to show respect to the grieving is a good thing, a mature thing, but not necessarily an American thing.
Tipperary
(6,930 posts)still do this, but I thought it was ridiculous at the time and still do.
Rex
(65,616 posts)The way Hollywood expresses their 'outrage' at gun deaths is as shallow as anything else I've ever seen.
bullwinkle428
(20,629 posts)The title character's original last name was "Hinckley", but the show producers made the change to something else (shortly before the show's debut) following the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan by John Hinckley.
Orrex
(63,213 posts)It would have ripped the satellites right out of the sky.
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)and describing it as if you had. You say 'a little like' while the makers of the show say there was a 'graphic scene similar in nature' to the events yesterday. The people who made it say their scene is both similar and graphic, and that would be their call as they make the show. You do not know how similar or in what ways, they do.
But obviously someone needs to say I'm sorry your TV show is delayed by a week, the world will resume revolving around your entertainment needs shortly. Americans love to get what they want when they want it, no?
BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)It is sad. That's this universe.
PersonNumber503602
(1,134 posts)but it doesn't make any sense to me. Not to mention the fact that it was a major spoiler.