Saturday, April 16, 2011

SORRY MCFLY: CHINA BANS TIME TRAVEL

China slaps ban on time travel, claiming it's 'absurd' and 'promotes reincarnation'.




It's the basis for some of the greatest sci-fi movies of all time - The Terminator, Back to the Future, Black Knight, just to name a few.

But if you ever find yourself in China wanting to check out what Bill and Ted willn't be up to last week, forget it. Time traveling is banned.

In a bogus move by the Cultural Revolution-loving dudes at China's State Administration for Radio, Film and Television, it has been decided that TV shows that deal with changing history "lack positive thoughts and meaning".


"The time-travel drama is becoming a hot theme for TV and films," it says.

"But its content and the exaggerated performance style are questionable."

Some observers claim the real reason behind the ban is that the recent rash of TV time travel dramas focus too much on perceived happier times in the past for its citizens.

No dice, say the administrators.

"Many stories are totally made-up and are made to strain for an effect of novelty," they claim.

Time travel plots are made up? Go on with you.

No, it's true - "they casually make up myths, have monstrous and weird plots, use absurd tactics, and even promote feudalism, superstition, fatalism and reincarnation.”

So no Dr Who? (Or Amy Pond, for that matter.) Not quite.

They're guidelines only that "discourage" such content, rather than outright ban it.

But if you want to test out what the words "guidelines" and "discourage" mean when it comes to Chinese administration officials, be our guest.

Just make sure you've got a deranged inventor ready to fire up the flux capacitor if it all appears to have gone pear-shaped.

Not that they would know...




via news.com.au

31 comments:

  1. Thank god I don't live in China! This could be very problematic for me...

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  2. That sucks, time travel is very inconvenient. Lets focus on something else?

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  3. *inside jail cell*

    "so what are you in for?"

    "time travel.."

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  4. LMFAO!^^^

    Thats retarted tho, that you cant time travel...whats the harm?

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  5. This is just funny and absurd.

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  6. Aren't they a little late banning this?

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  7. If the EU start cracking down on it I could be in right amount of trouble.

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  8. In similar news: China bans imaginations, citing such separation from reality as negatively impacting their society.

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  9. It's nice that the officials there have such important things to protect their citizens from

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  10. Lol when I knew about this I lol'd so hard xD

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  11. First I want to know if time travel can actually prevent something that has happened, from happening.

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  12. Wow, really china? China needs to go die in a fire somewhere.

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  13. Well banning my time travel would really upset my plans for the past..

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  14. Just another reason I'm glad I'm not Chinese.

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  15. Irrelevant. I'm already immortal.

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  16. I wish time travel was possible, i would change so many things is did in the past ...

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  17. The Chinese board of Censoring must be getting really bored with the Great Chinese Firewall in place and all...

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  18. Damn china they censor everything. They even removed a blogpost my friend made against them when he was in china

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  19. That's absurd, China is unbelievable.

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  20. Someone should go back in time and prevent the law from being passed.

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  21. Brilliant, my lifes ambition is not to be arrested for breaking that law

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  22. Wow thats no fun. I don't really see how they could feel threatened by this though. Pretty dumb.

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  23. China is a world super power that tries to act like it is the greatest by taking everything the most serious. Granted, this focus has given them leaps and bounds in technology, but true happiness? eh, I bet majority of the U.S. are happier than Chinese.

    By the way, really love the trippy clock pic at the end

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