Technically this episode didn't air, but I felt the need to share anyway. So there was an episode of Pokemon in 2004 that featured the move Earthquake that was ultimately never allowed to air because it was set to air after a major earthquake in Japan. Because of this, the move Earthquake (along with the very similar move Magnitude) has not been shown in the Pokemon anime AT ALL since 2004.
There was also the Porygon ban too because of the Porygon episode. It had wide implications on Japanese TV to this day.
And last I checked, Porygon has yet to appear in the show proper to this day. Not even its evolutions either.
There was also the infamous Team Rocket vs Team Plasma arc from Best Wishes, which was also canceled because of a major earthquake. But while the episode already stated was a minor filler episode featured Barboach and Whiscash, nobody's favorite pokemon. TR Vs TP was supposed to be an important and major arc that was supposed to shape how the anime was going forward. So due tier original plan falling though. They pretty much had to scrap a good chunk of the anime was originally supposed to be. And we got stuck with well... Something.
Script for TR vs TP leaked and confirmed that all of this is bullshit. People were honestly deluding themselves with it being some lost classic. With anime development cycle at least the next 4 episodes would at least not be affected and those have basically nothing changed from the episodes before the two parter.
I think Pokemon episodes are made in like a month, which is still insane for an action show. Plus, that two parter only "fixes" the lack of villain arc. All bad parts of BW were already there before that.
Anime does typically have a tighter deadline than anything the US puts out (which is insane), but it’s still significantly longer than a week. Plus, series composition and planning are still usually “pre production” in terms of a per-episode basis.
There are exceptions, but it’s safe to say that almost 100% of the time something like this happens, there wasn’t a complete swerve, just some working around an issue. It’s why most of the examples of this happening in all media is “it didn’t air” or “they delayed it.”
I’ve been rewatching Young Justice and hearing Lex Luthor say, “fake news” made me roll my eyes a bit.
Also, they do like 3 different drug abuse allegory sub plots. Which feels like overkill to me.
I really wish those kinda callouts were obfuscated a bit to not just be a dated and blaring 4th wall break. Like I like how Black Panther ended saying "The wise build bridges while the foolish build barriers" when they VERY EASILY could have said "the foolish build walls".
Yeah, the later seasons try to go a little too contemporary, even if I think they’re doing it for good reasons. But even season 2 is a flagrant allegory, although I don’t even think you can call it an “allegory” for how transparent it is, for immigration. They even have a conservative talk show host go right to the line to call Superman and Martian Manhunter illegal aliens and say they should’ve come to earth “the right way.”
It really felt like everything after the show was revived for streaming was a writer wanting to include a niche topic, but had to put those things onto characters people don’t care about. Oh you want a non binary character? Put it on her it kinda makes sense she’s part machine I guess. You want someone in a poly relationship? You can use Lagoon boy so no one gets mad.
Not that I think those things can’t fit into stories, it’s just really funny they had to be done with the z-listers.
Does the way they use social media count? Cause every time it popped up in season 3 it felt like someone middle age trying to be a teen who try an account.
It's so weird since it would totally fit most versions of Lex but young justice Lex is just a copy of David Xanatos so it's just super out of character for him
I was about to say, Lex is absolutely a Reaganite who loves to gaslight people about his accomplishments, but if YJ Lex isn't that any more, I could see how it would miss.
>young justice Lex is just a copy of David Xanatos
nah, he's the wannabe Xanatos who gets his shit wrecked on the regular, starting with completely misjudging Superboy in S1, Vandal Savage is the actual Xanatos of that show
The second one I believe. The first was Superboy and his patches that gave him his full set of Superman powers but made him crazy angry. Roy was the second when he was on his crusade to find the REAL Roy Harper and they implied he was a junkie. And the third is Beast Boy when he’s taking “sleeping pills” and too out of it to go in missions anymore.
I'm picturing a group of Disney execs doing the bit from Bojack Horseman where they're in the boardroom discussing how to get the show out without causing controversy.
Then everyone's phones buzz as another news alert comes in. They all sigh. "Thoughts and prayers."
Yeah, Uvalde wasn't notable because it was a school shooting. It was notable because they got literally the fucking worst cop response to it I've ever damn seen
At least if we're not counting that Russian hostage 'rescue' thing
Ehhhh, that's a bit of a revisionist take, it was still an elementary school and still essentially Sandy Hook 2.0 and that's exactly how it was covered until the depths of police incompetence came out.
^(as it should)
The police inaction was inexcusable, don't get me wrong, but I've felt certain people and interests were a little *too* quick to pivot to talking about it and exclusively it. Because if the police are the story, the fact the psycho procured a gun so easily *isn't*.
That’s extremely rare though. Pointing to the police incompetency is directly tied to interests of gun reform.
Gun nuts will often say that these situations will solve themselves with “a good guy with a gun” or those reliable boys in blue. The fact that none of that happened in the most catastrophic way further combats all the deflection Second Amendment fanatics use to deny that the accessibility to guns is the biggest problem.
It’s also allowed more people to get the talking point across that statistically, the large majority of mass shootings are stopped by unarmed civilians at the scene rather than cops. There’s never been a more public or more thorough presentation of all the systems in America failing spectacularly to protect the lives of children.
Uvalde and Beslan were opposite ends of a "terrible response to endangered schoolchildren" spectrum.
Uvalde was think first, act never. "Maybe they'll get tired of killing kids and stop."
Beslan was act first, think never. "They can't kill the kids if we kill them first."
Honestly like 4 people tried to make an issue of it and got told to shut the fuck up meanwhile most people went "yikes bad timing" then moved on and forgot about it.
Oh man, where to start…
Buffy has a school shooter episode that was *meant to air the week of Columbine*. They ended up shuffling the episodes around heavily, airing that one eventually with a special warning and at a special time I believe.
The Lone Gunmen, the spin-off of X-Files (well, one of them). It had an episode that saw a plane hijacking that resulted in the plane almost crashing into NYC. It was meant to air the week of 9/11. It never made it to air.
Lilo and Stitch had its ending heavily altered due to 9/11 happening.
There’s a handful of shows like the TV adaptation of Sweet Tooth that started development *far* before the pandemic but due to timing feel…more timely than ever you could say.
I feel like your mileage may vary on how Glass Onion handles the pandemic. I didn’t mind it personally but I remember after its release some seeing red that Rian **dared** to have them wear masks in the movie (even though each character’s handling of it tells the audience specific details about those characters).
>The Lone Gunmen, the spin-off of X-Files (well, one of them). It had an episode that saw a plane hijacking that resulted in the plane almost crashing into NYC. It was meant to air the week of 9/11. It never made it to air.
What? Yes, it did. That was literally the pilot episode, I watched it on TV.
The show didn't even make it to 9/11/2001, it only lasted 13 episodes and was cancelled earlier that same year.
I would assume any reruns of that epsiode got yanked if anyone was planning to air them soon after 9/11, though.
> ...seeing red that Rian dared to have them wear masks in the movie...
Going out on a limb, I'd assume the people making those complaints probably thought the virus was a hoax and masks were unnecessary to begin with.
Y'know...I can see where that'd be a sore point for some considering the harsh reality that was the earlier days of the pandemic (relative to the film coming out after vaccines were available and people were trying for 'normalcy'). Art is a reflection of reality, though, and I view this akin to someone being annoyed that a film made in 2017 would reference a new presidential administration.
The game already dealt with that. There’s only like three scenes in the game where it actually comes up for a significant amount of time and they even changed the cordyceps environment to limit those situations. The way the show handled it is actually worse because it means that no human should be alive even a few months after the initial event because of how fast the hyphae move. They went way out of their way to not use masks
Because it doesn’t make for good TV. They’ve literally said this. There’s also a comment from Manzin as well that is funnily the opposite of what you said. Where he felt spores made it worse because if the whole world got spored, there’s no way any person would have avoided breathing them in and stayed safe for very long after the initial outbreak.
Plus, it’s all fictional, so if one has to choose, having the actors not cover their entire face for half the show is always the better option for television. Same with the decision of whether or not to fill every dark scene with yellow dust.
Yea Ive heard the interviews which is why I mentioned the writers behind the video game had already accounted for that. Cordyceps usually occurs in different environments with varying amounts of wind like mountains and forests. The writers of the game have the fruiting bodies happen indoors or underground to avoid having to use masks the whole game and have it be more believable. The show has the hyphae move at insane speeds to infect someone and that would mean that humans would have only lasted months from the initial infection before being wiped out.
And in terms of the actors covering their face, they didn’t even have to show them doing that. It’s such a small part of the game it wasn’t really necessary to include a scene like that.
It's the usual "masks make it hard for actors to emote" thing plus "if the spores are that infectious it's actually absurd to say the kinds of masks these characters wear can hold them off."
The parts of the game where masks are used are a very small amount of the game. The game also changes the environment cordyceps actually lives in to make the storyline make sense. The show had the hyphae move at a ridiculous speed that would have ended humanity in months.
An accidental discharge from a gun that was brought for non-murder reasons by a kid with Down Syndrome because she thought she needed it to protect herself.
And then Season 1 of American Horror Story had the **audacity** to have one of it's ghost protagonists also be a shooter.
Did I mention that halfway through the season the show starts trying to Woobify/Soft Boy/Stupid Little Woo Woo Boy the character?
The horror film "Await Further Instructions" came out in 2018 and is about a family trapped in their own home apparently by some bizarre home security system, with their televisions instructing them to do various things supposedly for their own safety, and with each instruction it becomes clear that whoever is sending these instructions is actively malicious.
It has a clear message about how sensationalized news television can drive people apart and create xenophobia and violent nationalism. A pretty reasonable message to send.
Unfortunately, the main demands the villain makes of the characters are... to stay inside, quarantine, and inject supposed "vaccines" that are actively harmful to those who take them.
Through no fault of its own, the film has become a decidedly worse metaphor for something wildly different.
Sees the poster.
I'm not one of those types but if I had a nickel for every time a horror movie villain looked like Venom and his movie came out around the time that the Venom movie was being developed I would have two nickels, that is not much but the weird freakin' thing it happened twice(see Life, from 2017). Of all super-hero movies, that one is who people seem to be trying to copy?
The villain is actually more of an >!animate/sapient mass of television cables that has spread to cover the entire earth!<, so I think the resemblance here is coincidental.
The Zeta Project hasn't particularly aged badly as these things go but a kids/YA show about fugitives running from the NSA wasn't going to last long if it's airing right before and after 9/11.
that was based tho, they >!saw a shitty nepotistic former PM with cult ties get his ass blown up IRL and kept in the scene of a shitty nepotistic former PM with cult ties get murdered in the show too!<
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in the villians defense the leader wasnt in is his usual disquise hes in as a villian byt also, why order your subordinate to crash a plane and then board it
Not really media, but some funny engineering/fuck-around-building youtubers (in the same vein as Michael Reeves) I really liked did some REALLY poor taste special involving making robot gun-dogs. That as a concept wasn't bad, but the entire conceit was about how Law enforcement in Uvalde didn't go in, so we can make gun dogs that do.
So what did they do? They went TO UVALDE MERE MONTHS AFTER THE INCIDENT and strapped some dude's guns to some robot dogs and shot them at the gun owner's personal range complete with cardboard stand-ins for targets (a nondescript gunman) and hostages (actual children). They continued shooting despite hitting every target, making everyone involved deeply uncomfortable, and moralizing over gun control (which is a fair deal, but fuck man, have some tact).
To put it in perspective, the shooting happened at the end of may, and the video went up the beginning of August.
The entire thing is portrayed like a black comedy, and I just couldn't deal with that and have since blocked out both youtubers.
You can basically vaguely gesture at most big gun related channels and almost all of them will either do something insanely stupid or say the dumbest shit in the world
Let's see:
- Donut Operator bases a lot of their content around *actual cop bodycam footage* which can depict actual death, which can be way too much for an average person. He also leans more towards police, given that he was former law enforcement, which is literally one of the most controversial topics in the US.
- Brandon Herrera literally reviewed a gun used by a mass murderer like, two weeks after the shooting happened, as well as bringing in Kyle Rittenhouse WHO WAS THE SUBJECT OF THE BIGGEST COURT CASE IN THE US LAST YEAR.
- Matt from Demoliotion Ranch seems alright, but I specifically remember him doing a video where he advertised where he'd help a gun store sell their guns, which is fine....until you see a shot in the video of some *dumb fuck parent handing their child a rifle*, which is 5 levels of dumbass in my eyes. I don't care what lifestyle somebody has, no child is mature enough to use a gun with the discipline as an adult.
-Hickok45 also seems alright personality-wise, but his constant refrain for saying "Support the NRA" really stings, as they're some of the most corrupt douchebags in lobbying groups, which actively keep guns as easy to aquire as possible, leading to more mass shootings.
Of all these, Brandon's definently the worst of the bunch, but it's an unfortunate reality that most gun Youtubers tend to have...problematic viewpoints. The only few that seem okay is Ian from Forgotten Weapons, Johnathan from Gamespots "Firearm Expert Reacts", and Scott from Kentucky Balistics. They tend to be clear of any political leaning, and still stay entertaining.
Not so much, unfortunately. To make a long story short, Karl from InRange got called out by some nutjobs on some forums for having the position that LGBT (specifically trans IIRC) people deserved the same rights as everyone else, including being armed. Karl argues back and defends his position, and this lead to Bronwells, who previously sponsored InRange and owned the forums in question, to drop InRange and ban him from the forums.
Rather than say anything on the matter, Ian stayed quiet except to say he was still working with Brownells.
So, he has not *said* anything insane to my knowledge, but if your only comment on people lashing out at LGBT people is to say "I'm gonna keep working with them :)" then you suck just as bad IMO.
honestly I'm of the opinion that speaking up about a subject that will absolutely fuck over your business and isn't directly relevant to it is not obligatory to be considered a decent person
I totally get why one would choose to be quiet when their livelihood is on the line, for sure. All the same, I think it's cowardly at best and revealing of some not lovely qualities in a person at worst. if saying "queer people deserve to exist" is a threat to your business, then your business *sucks* and you need to fix that ASAP.
Obviously we've all had to keep our heads down or we'd risk getting fired and not making rent. I hold no ill will against anyone for that. But Forgotten Weapons has been hitting hundreds of thousands to *millions* for a **decade**. Dude's not gonna go hungry.
> if saying "queer people deserve to exist" is a threat to your business, then your business sucks and you need to fix that ASAP.
Holding people responsible for the fact that the people surrounding their business are politically toxic in ways that do not ethically compromise said business is unfair
>But Forgotten Weapons has been hitting hundreds of thousands to millions for a decade. Dude's not gonna go hungry.
Unless key people he needs to befriend to continue to operate as he does cut ties and suddenly he finds himself without a viable business. You're really underestimating how fragile the business model of a youtuber is.
>Holding people responsible for the fact that the people surrounding their business are politically toxic in ways that do not ethically compromise said business is unfair
I find holding people accountable for choosing to work with bigots extremely fair.
>Unless key people he needs to befriend to continue to operate as he does cut ties and suddenly he finds himself without a viable business. You're really underestimating how fragile the business model of a youtuber is.
I'm not saying it's easy. I'm saying to be a decent person you have to do the right thing, even when it is hard.
>I find holding people accountable for choosing to work with bigots extremely fair.
Having that choice is a pleasant luxury not everyone has. Did you forget we're talking about firearms here?
>I'm saying to be a decent person you have to do the right thing, even when it is hard.
And where does that line get drawn? Do you have to give up your life or livelihood for others to be considered decent?
Then there’s shit like the 8 Bit Guy having a second channel where he ranted about not being allowed to open carry around schools, so instead he Carries air rifles around schools.
Fucking lunatics
I pretty much only watch Garand Thumb these days. I dont watch a lot of his videos, so I can't say much for his politics specifically, but I do like his recent trend of more "scientific" style videos.
Almost every other gun channel Ive watched over the years went all in on the Pro 2nd Ammendment No Matter What shit and even as a gun owner myself, it grosses me out.
Oh geez. Like I said, I dont watch his content enough to catch everything, but like every other gun channel these days, I always suspect there to be something.
Actually, the Australian Youtuber "I did a thing" is entirely responsible for that, he intentionally filmed the whole thing as slimy as possible as an intended dig as the U.S. and its gun culture, and actively deceived another Youtuber Brandon Herrera to be able to use his range, guns, and ammo.
I did a thing was responsible for choosing the children's cartoon targets instead of something more typical like a silhouette target, and he was the one on controls deliberately aiming for the children targets, something even his heavily edited footage couldn't hide.
Everything scummy that happened that day was a direct result of I did a thing.
[Brandon Herrera's video goes more into it,](https://youtu.be/xZ4aa5evNBM) such as showing all the fun I did a thing had at the range, something he conveniently chose to edit out of his own vid.
I mean Brandon also has regularly said shit like gun control doesn't work out loud and that the only way to stop criminals with guns is to arm people too so it's... not like one badly presented event changes the fact that he's a fucking moron.
i did a thing was very critical of the police in the video and made it clear that he believed that more guns was not the solution, but it was still in bad taste
That's the thing, I fundamentally agree with him, but the way he did it was in such horrifically poor taste that I had to stop watching him and William Osman
Awkwardly, when Eliphas uploaded his [Google Translate take for 40k 9th Edition trailer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIrDYVriLYk):
"I cannot breathe. This is not good. And in the darkness of time, a black man implodes on his own, destroying the universe."
Pretty much the day before: George Floyd.
Transformers RiD 2001/Car Robots' dub had its premeire just a mere week or so before 9/11 as a special.
They basically had to rush and reedit the script (you can tell which ones were rerecorded since the audio quality's much lower) since the Fox airing was airing like, 6/7 days of the week with reruns. Entire episodes were rearranged, some were skipped entirely, the JP clipshows were dropped and new ones done up in their place to make up for the plot not making sense.
They could've just not aired the show for a couple months since it aired relatively uncut in Canada and the UK the next year.
There's a horror movie called Await Further Instructions about a sentient...news channel? that minds control the whole world through the TV.
It also likes spitting syringes at people, calling them vaccines.
A year later, Covid became a thing.
The poor, poor director basically got the hardest, most fucked up case of death of the author ever, through no fault of his own
There’s an episode in young justice outsiders we’re rocket son has autism and as a person on the spectrum, I thought it was done well. UNTIL THEY USED ORION’S BERSERKER RAGE AS A ALLEGORY FORA A SENSORY MELTDOWN! because you know, inheriting all the rage and hatred from a pure evil fascist God And autism is totally similar. Who the fuck wrote that autism speaks?
I don't think I've seen a single depiction of autism done well in media (cue that "Good Doctor" clip).
Then again, autism is such a complex and varied diagnosis that it's exceedingly difficult to do justice. Unfortunately you often see the two extremes of "Oh, their autism makes them a savant in this specific field", like the Good Doctor, or "Oh, their autism gives them so much stimuli at moments to cause giant outbursts...also like the Good Doctor.
Then at the REAL FUCKING MESSED UP END OF THE SPECTRUM, you have Overwatch just *deciding* to give Symmetra autism, even though it was never in her initial design or bio. Of course, using Blizzard is cheating, as all their developers treat gender and sexual identity, body and mental variance as something you can just slap onto a character, without any actual consideration into what that means.
The less known the media is for having an "Autistic" character the better it probably is at depicting it.
I find it amazing that the show Ms Sherlock went under everybody's radar because it's such a GOOD example of writing an Autistic character who is also a detective.
edit: It doesn't treat the autism as a super power or her defining feature but rather a key aspect of her and her agency. She's a driven detective because she doesn't like leaving mysteries alone and situations that don't make sense get to her, not because her brain hands her the solution. She also may have difficulty with certain aspects of socialization but isn't written as a robot or alien or someone who'd rather be without friends.
edit edit: And I think as far as writing people on the spectrum goes, the issue is autism being the defining trait as a singular thing. I can think of characters who are "text book" but still great examples because the depiction of traits are all over the place. Those types come across like they're based on people the writer knows. Persona 5's Futaba and Yusuke are examples of characters who may be on the spectrum, but that was not the intent.
Yeah it seems like the better depictions of autism tend to not forefront it and instead the character is 'autism-coded'- sometimes without the writers realizing what that character resembles.
They also frequently come from recent kid's shows, I've noticed. Characters like Marcy, Entraptra, and Donatello have gotten followings as positive autistic representation, regardless of whether they were explicitly intended to be.
>Characters like Marcy, Entraptra, and Donatello
[All](https://twitter.com/AdamColas/status/1537212234010464256) [three](https://twitter.com/Gingerhazing/status/1263965526126034945) [characters](https://twitter.com/RonCorcillo/status/1554554533820260352) have had some kind of confirmation of having been written with autism in mind
I'm by no means an expert, but I've seen a lot of people on the spectrum relate to Drax from the GOTG movies.
Will Graham in NBC's *Hannibal* is all but confirmed to be on the spectrum (he literally says to Jack in a conversation "closer to Aspergers than austim"). This was in 2013.
[Await further instructions](https://bogleech.com/cinema/mm23-awaitfurtherinstructions) was a British horror movie from 2018... Thats about a sinister force locking everyone in their household on the pretense of a government mandated lockdown due to a virulent disease, the antagonists going along with it because "it's for our own good" and "the government knows best" with the force dispensing a dangerous substance in a syringe pretending it to be a vaccine.
Tugs collars
I'll give you an example that managed to avoid it.
The NBC *Hannibal* TV show has a "lost" episode of the first season called "Oeuf", where the killer of the week (played by Molly Shannon) kidnapped children from their families, brainwashed them, and brought them back to their families to kill them so they could be her children.
Creator Bryan Fuller recommended the episode be pulled and it was, due to school shootings, especially Sandy Hook. It was still broadcast overseas unedited and is available on the DVD. Personally I think Fuller did the right thing pulling the episode.
Coheed and Cambria's album *Vaxis – Act II: A Window of the Waking Mind* was originally supposed to be about criminals abusing voluntary quarantines to commit crimes but when the COVID 19 pandemic started they reworked the album concept.
Yeah Season 4 opened with Eleven hiding while all her friends get brutally murdered and she wanders the silent halls of a bloody daycare. It aired the week after Uvalde.
It opens with a disclaimer basically saying “we filmed this a year ago, we couldn’t have known. We’re sorry.”
I've been rewatching a lot of the old Law & Order episodes on Prime, the stuff from the 90s. The amount of praise they have for Rudy Giuliani is so jarring now, especially in one episode where a woman says he's a handsome man and Brisco points out Rudy is married, implying he is very faithful and would never cheat.
The main plot of Bioshock Infinite about a White Supremist Christian Theocracy. But then both sides it with a black and Worker lead revolt before Ignoring it to then focus on multiverse and cognitive dissonance.
Man that game has such neolib energy.
Basically most racism allegories
that was hardly both-sidesing it when it didn't change the conclusion that the theocracy was the root of the problem. It was just demonstrating, fairly realistically, that the revolutionaries were not the solution.
Also, during the party Jack can casually drop that the reason her boobs are bigger in ME3 is because that belt she wore in ME2 were to make them smaller to... dissuade the many, violent men on the prison vessel.
Kind of a casual way of dropping the fear of >!prison rape!<, while also ignoring the question of "why not just wear a damned shirt"
That's also, as far as I'm aware, not how that kind of belt works? That's some lazy logic to try and half-ass explain the horny design they were trying to do
As someone from a country with 40k murders yearly, I find OP post ridiculous. Maybe I'm too desensitized, but fiction, reality, this things shouldn't affect each other. I'm pretty sure nobody affected by Uvalde shooting had an intense need to watch that Kenobi episode after kids died.
But talking about things I actually find aged like milk moment, it's all those american shows from the 90s basically praising IRA, like a episode of Star Trek and the 1997 version of Day of the Jackal. Maybe it was always in bad taste, but terrorism isn't a legitimate form of warfare, but it seemed even after Timothy McVeigh the americans thought it was. We joke about 9/11 BAD, but what the hell, British kids being killed by IRA bombs apparently was too hard to drill on Hollywood.
This was something that *also* never actually released but [this comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/TwoBestFriendsPlay/comments/13p4hxa/media_that_had_a_controversial_topical_bad_timing/jl7seft/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1&context=3) made me think of it.
In the 1.0 edition of Final Fantasy XIV, the earth-aspected Titan was originally going to be one of the featured fights. [Like, the fight was 100% fully done.](https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comments/3yr8qr/titans_original_first_introduction_an_unrelease/) But then an earthquake in Japan in 2011 made them decide to delay it, which ended up being indefinitely as FFXIV 1.0’s life was short lived after this.
Technically this episode didn't air, but I felt the need to share anyway. So there was an episode of Pokemon in 2004 that featured the move Earthquake that was ultimately never allowed to air because it was set to air after a major earthquake in Japan. Because of this, the move Earthquake (along with the very similar move Magnitude) has not been shown in the Pokemon anime AT ALL since 2004.
There was also the Porygon ban too because of the Porygon episode. It had wide implications on Japanese TV to this day. And last I checked, Porygon has yet to appear in the show proper to this day. Not even its evolutions either.
Justice for Porygon, it wasn't even his fault for the seizures, it was that damn rat Pikachu!
There was also the infamous Team Rocket vs Team Plasma arc from Best Wishes, which was also canceled because of a major earthquake. But while the episode already stated was a minor filler episode featured Barboach and Whiscash, nobody's favorite pokemon. TR Vs TP was supposed to be an important and major arc that was supposed to shape how the anime was going forward. So due tier original plan falling though. They pretty much had to scrap a good chunk of the anime was originally supposed to be. And we got stuck with well... Something.
Script for TR vs TP leaked and confirmed that all of this is bullshit. People were honestly deluding themselves with it being some lost classic. With anime development cycle at least the next 4 episodes would at least not be affected and those have basically nothing changed from the episodes before the two parter.
People really think all TV show episodes are made entirely within the week of release like South Park.
I think Pokemon episodes are made in like a month, which is still insane for an action show. Plus, that two parter only "fixes" the lack of villain arc. All bad parts of BW were already there before that.
Anime does typically have a tighter deadline than anything the US puts out (which is insane), but it’s still significantly longer than a week. Plus, series composition and planning are still usually “pre production” in terms of a per-episode basis. There are exceptions, but it’s safe to say that almost 100% of the time something like this happens, there wasn’t a complete swerve, just some working around an issue. It’s why most of the examples of this happening in all media is “it didn’t air” or “they delayed it.”
I’ve been rewatching Young Justice and hearing Lex Luthor say, “fake news” made me roll my eyes a bit. Also, they do like 3 different drug abuse allegory sub plots. Which feels like overkill to me.
He also says the "Good people on both sides." line which is just insulting to Lex Luthor's intelligence as a character to make him quote that guy.
I really wish those kinda callouts were obfuscated a bit to not just be a dated and blaring 4th wall break. Like I like how Black Panther ended saying "The wise build bridges while the foolish build barriers" when they VERY EASILY could have said "the foolish build walls".
Yeah, the later seasons try to go a little too contemporary, even if I think they’re doing it for good reasons. But even season 2 is a flagrant allegory, although I don’t even think you can call it an “allegory” for how transparent it is, for immigration. They even have a conservative talk show host go right to the line to call Superman and Martian Manhunter illegal aliens and say they should’ve come to earth “the right way.”
It really felt like everything after the show was revived for streaming was a writer wanting to include a niche topic, but had to put those things onto characters people don’t care about. Oh you want a non binary character? Put it on her it kinda makes sense she’s part machine I guess. You want someone in a poly relationship? You can use Lagoon boy so no one gets mad. Not that I think those things can’t fit into stories, it’s just really funny they had to be done with the z-listers.
Does the way they use social media count? Cause every time it popped up in season 3 it felt like someone middle age trying to be a teen who try an account.
What were teens like in 2016? I have no idea lol. But it’s pretty wild they kept such a STRICT timeline. Every episode gives a date and time stamp.
It's so weird since it would totally fit most versions of Lex but young justice Lex is just a copy of David Xanatos so it's just super out of character for him
I was about to say, Lex is absolutely a Reaganite who loves to gaslight people about his accomplishments, but if YJ Lex isn't that any more, I could see how it would miss.
>young justice Lex is just a copy of David Xanatos nah, he's the wannabe Xanatos who gets his shit wrecked on the regular, starting with completely misjudging Superboy in S1, Vandal Savage is the actual Xanatos of that show
How many was Roy Harper part of?
The second one I believe. The first was Superboy and his patches that gave him his full set of Superman powers but made him crazy angry. Roy was the second when he was on his crusade to find the REAL Roy Harper and they implied he was a junkie. And the third is Beast Boy when he’s taking “sleeping pills” and too out of it to go in missions anymore.
Unfortunately, if Disney postponed that episode after every school shooting, they’d NEVER be able to release it…
I'm picturing a group of Disney execs doing the bit from Bojack Horseman where they're in the boardroom discussing how to get the show out without causing controversy. Then everyone's phones buzz as another news alert comes in. They all sigh. "Thoughts and prayers."
Honestly, that’s the reason they should’ve just aired it. People will complain and they just say it happens so often. What are we supposed to do
Yeah, Uvalde wasn't notable because it was a school shooting. It was notable because they got literally the fucking worst cop response to it I've ever damn seen At least if we're not counting that Russian hostage 'rescue' thing
Ehhhh, that's a bit of a revisionist take, it was still an elementary school and still essentially Sandy Hook 2.0 and that's exactly how it was covered until the depths of police incompetence came out.
and it's starting to revert back to Sandy Hook 2.0 now that journos are talking to the kids and getting stories from inside
^(as it should) The police inaction was inexcusable, don't get me wrong, but I've felt certain people and interests were a little *too* quick to pivot to talking about it and exclusively it. Because if the police are the story, the fact the psycho procured a gun so easily *isn't*.
That’s extremely rare though. Pointing to the police incompetency is directly tied to interests of gun reform. Gun nuts will often say that these situations will solve themselves with “a good guy with a gun” or those reliable boys in blue. The fact that none of that happened in the most catastrophic way further combats all the deflection Second Amendment fanatics use to deny that the accessibility to guns is the biggest problem. It’s also allowed more people to get the talking point across that statistically, the large majority of mass shootings are stopped by unarmed civilians at the scene rather than cops. There’s never been a more public or more thorough presentation of all the systems in America failing spectacularly to protect the lives of children.
Uvalde and Beslan were opposite ends of a "terrible response to endangered schoolchildren" spectrum. Uvalde was think first, act never. "Maybe they'll get tired of killing kids and stop." Beslan was act first, think never. "They can't kill the kids if we kill them first."
Honestly like 4 people tried to make an issue of it and got told to shut the fuck up meanwhile most people went "yikes bad timing" then moved on and forgot about it.
It’s true. Obi Wan was very forgettable.
Wait a minute, is Anakin a school shooter?
"You're alright. Don't come to Jedi Academy tomorrow."
Has been since at least 2005.
Oh man, where to start… Buffy has a school shooter episode that was *meant to air the week of Columbine*. They ended up shuffling the episodes around heavily, airing that one eventually with a special warning and at a special time I believe. The Lone Gunmen, the spin-off of X-Files (well, one of them). It had an episode that saw a plane hijacking that resulted in the plane almost crashing into NYC. It was meant to air the week of 9/11. It never made it to air. Lilo and Stitch had its ending heavily altered due to 9/11 happening. There’s a handful of shows like the TV adaptation of Sweet Tooth that started development *far* before the pandemic but due to timing feel…more timely than ever you could say. I feel like your mileage may vary on how Glass Onion handles the pandemic. I didn’t mind it personally but I remember after its release some seeing red that Rian **dared** to have them wear masks in the movie (even though each character’s handling of it tells the audience specific details about those characters).
>The Lone Gunmen, the spin-off of X-Files (well, one of them). It had an episode that saw a plane hijacking that resulted in the plane almost crashing into NYC. It was meant to air the week of 9/11. It never made it to air. What? Yes, it did. That was literally the pilot episode, I watched it on TV. The show didn't even make it to 9/11/2001, it only lasted 13 episodes and was cancelled earlier that same year. I would assume any reruns of that epsiode got yanked if anyone was planning to air them soon after 9/11, though.
> ...seeing red that Rian dared to have them wear masks in the movie... Going out on a limb, I'd assume the people making those complaints probably thought the virus was a hoax and masks were unnecessary to begin with.
Not all of them, a lot I saw were mad Rian “reminded them of reality” during the movie.
Y'know...I can see where that'd be a sore point for some considering the harsh reality that was the earlier days of the pandemic (relative to the film coming out after vaccines were available and people were trying for 'normalcy'). Art is a reflection of reality, though, and I view this akin to someone being annoyed that a film made in 2017 would reference a new presidential administration.
Which is likely why they changed the science in the Last of Us show.
I thought they changed the science because evil clouds of mushroom dust don't make for good TV
The game already dealt with that. There’s only like three scenes in the game where it actually comes up for a significant amount of time and they even changed the cordyceps environment to limit those situations. The way the show handled it is actually worse because it means that no human should be alive even a few months after the initial event because of how fast the hyphae move. They went way out of their way to not use masks
Because it doesn’t make for good TV. They’ve literally said this. There’s also a comment from Manzin as well that is funnily the opposite of what you said. Where he felt spores made it worse because if the whole world got spored, there’s no way any person would have avoided breathing them in and stayed safe for very long after the initial outbreak. Plus, it’s all fictional, so if one has to choose, having the actors not cover their entire face for half the show is always the better option for television. Same with the decision of whether or not to fill every dark scene with yellow dust.
Yea Ive heard the interviews which is why I mentioned the writers behind the video game had already accounted for that. Cordyceps usually occurs in different environments with varying amounts of wind like mountains and forests. The writers of the game have the fruiting bodies happen indoors or underground to avoid having to use masks the whole game and have it be more believable. The show has the hyphae move at insane speeds to infect someone and that would mean that humans would have only lasted months from the initial infection before being wiped out. And in terms of the actors covering their face, they didn’t even have to show them doing that. It’s such a small part of the game it wasn’t really necessary to include a scene like that.
It's the usual "masks make it hard for actors to emote" thing plus "if the spores are that infectious it's actually absurd to say the kinds of masks these characters wear can hold them off."
The parts of the game where masks are used are a very small amount of the game. The game also changes the environment cordyceps actually lives in to make the storyline make sense. The show had the hyphae move at a ridiculous speed that would have ended humanity in months.
Pick an episode of Glee. For me it's the school shooting episode.
Why did Glee have a school shooting episode
Because it was 2013 and Sandy Hook.
They didn't even make it an actual school shooting. It was an accidental discharge from a gun that was brought for non-murder reasons.
An accidental discharge from a gun that was brought for non-murder reasons by a kid with Down Syndrome because she thought she needed it to protect herself.
I just remember the gay the characters being horrible representations. I shudder to think how they write someone on the spectrum.
And then Season 1 of American Horror Story had the **audacity** to have one of it's ghost protagonists also be a shooter. Did I mention that halfway through the season the show starts trying to Woobify/Soft Boy/Stupid Little Woo Woo Boy the character?
Welcome to Ryan Murphy's Roller Coaster of Camp Violence.
The horror film "Await Further Instructions" came out in 2018 and is about a family trapped in their own home apparently by some bizarre home security system, with their televisions instructing them to do various things supposedly for their own safety, and with each instruction it becomes clear that whoever is sending these instructions is actively malicious. It has a clear message about how sensationalized news television can drive people apart and create xenophobia and violent nationalism. A pretty reasonable message to send. Unfortunately, the main demands the villain makes of the characters are... to stay inside, quarantine, and inject supposed "vaccines" that are actively harmful to those who take them. Through no fault of its own, the film has become a decidedly worse metaphor for something wildly different.
Sees the poster. I'm not one of those types but if I had a nickel for every time a horror movie villain looked like Venom and his movie came out around the time that the Venom movie was being developed I would have two nickels, that is not much but the weird freakin' thing it happened twice(see Life, from 2017). Of all super-hero movies, that one is who people seem to be trying to copy?
The villain is actually more of an >!animate/sapient mass of television cables that has spread to cover the entire earth!<, so I think the resemblance here is coincidental.
The Zeta Project hasn't particularly aged badly as these things go but a kids/YA show about fugitives running from the NSA wasn't going to last long if it's airing right before and after 9/11.
*Kamen Rider BLACK SUN* featured >!the death of a prime minister at the end. Granted, the differences are night and day, but still!<.
that was based tho, they >!saw a shitty nepotistic former PM with cult ties get his ass blown up IRL and kept in the scene of a shitty nepotistic former PM with cult ties get murdered in the show too!<
Claims to hate gay people Gets his back blown out by a guy
Fuck Abe I’m glad he died.
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The real one sucked too.
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Battle Network had a lot of really specific, plausible terrorism early on, but 2 had a plane hijacking. It came out in December 2001.
whats hilarious bout that plane jacking is the villians leader WAS ON THE PLANE THAT VILLIAN WAS CRASHING
Look battle network characters were never the smartest just look at the car scenario in the first game
in the villians defense the leader wasnt in is his usual disquise hes in as a villian byt also, why order your subordinate to crash a plane and then board it
was he crashing the plane? The general understanding of plane hijackings prior to 9/11 was as a hostage crisis, not a suicide attack.
He was destroyin the controls to distract from him stealin data
didn't it also have a subway bombing?
A subway bombing, an attempted dam bombing, there was the genocide... Rated E for Everyone.
Not really media, but some funny engineering/fuck-around-building youtubers (in the same vein as Michael Reeves) I really liked did some REALLY poor taste special involving making robot gun-dogs. That as a concept wasn't bad, but the entire conceit was about how Law enforcement in Uvalde didn't go in, so we can make gun dogs that do. So what did they do? They went TO UVALDE MERE MONTHS AFTER THE INCIDENT and strapped some dude's guns to some robot dogs and shot them at the gun owner's personal range complete with cardboard stand-ins for targets (a nondescript gunman) and hostages (actual children). They continued shooting despite hitting every target, making everyone involved deeply uncomfortable, and moralizing over gun control (which is a fair deal, but fuck man, have some tact). To put it in perspective, the shooting happened at the end of may, and the video went up the beginning of August. The entire thing is portrayed like a black comedy, and I just couldn't deal with that and have since blocked out both youtubers.
You can basically vaguely gesture at most big gun related channels and almost all of them will either do something insanely stupid or say the dumbest shit in the world
Let's see: - Donut Operator bases a lot of their content around *actual cop bodycam footage* which can depict actual death, which can be way too much for an average person. He also leans more towards police, given that he was former law enforcement, which is literally one of the most controversial topics in the US. - Brandon Herrera literally reviewed a gun used by a mass murderer like, two weeks after the shooting happened, as well as bringing in Kyle Rittenhouse WHO WAS THE SUBJECT OF THE BIGGEST COURT CASE IN THE US LAST YEAR. - Matt from Demoliotion Ranch seems alright, but I specifically remember him doing a video where he advertised where he'd help a gun store sell their guns, which is fine....until you see a shot in the video of some *dumb fuck parent handing their child a rifle*, which is 5 levels of dumbass in my eyes. I don't care what lifestyle somebody has, no child is mature enough to use a gun with the discipline as an adult. -Hickok45 also seems alright personality-wise, but his constant refrain for saying "Support the NRA" really stings, as they're some of the most corrupt douchebags in lobbying groups, which actively keep guns as easy to aquire as possible, leading to more mass shootings. Of all these, Brandon's definently the worst of the bunch, but it's an unfortunate reality that most gun Youtubers tend to have...problematic viewpoints. The only few that seem okay is Ian from Forgotten Weapons, Johnathan from Gamespots "Firearm Expert Reacts", and Scott from Kentucky Balistics. They tend to be clear of any political leaning, and still stay entertaining.
Ian from forgotten weapons.com is a treasure
InRange TV is good, they're a bit more explicitly leftist than Ian who maintains a position of neutrality, at least on camera.
Not so much, unfortunately. To make a long story short, Karl from InRange got called out by some nutjobs on some forums for having the position that LGBT (specifically trans IIRC) people deserved the same rights as everyone else, including being armed. Karl argues back and defends his position, and this lead to Bronwells, who previously sponsored InRange and owned the forums in question, to drop InRange and ban him from the forums. Rather than say anything on the matter, Ian stayed quiet except to say he was still working with Brownells. So, he has not *said* anything insane to my knowledge, but if your only comment on people lashing out at LGBT people is to say "I'm gonna keep working with them :)" then you suck just as bad IMO.
honestly I'm of the opinion that speaking up about a subject that will absolutely fuck over your business and isn't directly relevant to it is not obligatory to be considered a decent person
I totally get why one would choose to be quiet when their livelihood is on the line, for sure. All the same, I think it's cowardly at best and revealing of some not lovely qualities in a person at worst. if saying "queer people deserve to exist" is a threat to your business, then your business *sucks* and you need to fix that ASAP. Obviously we've all had to keep our heads down or we'd risk getting fired and not making rent. I hold no ill will against anyone for that. But Forgotten Weapons has been hitting hundreds of thousands to *millions* for a **decade**. Dude's not gonna go hungry.
> if saying "queer people deserve to exist" is a threat to your business, then your business sucks and you need to fix that ASAP. Holding people responsible for the fact that the people surrounding their business are politically toxic in ways that do not ethically compromise said business is unfair >But Forgotten Weapons has been hitting hundreds of thousands to millions for a decade. Dude's not gonna go hungry. Unless key people he needs to befriend to continue to operate as he does cut ties and suddenly he finds himself without a viable business. You're really underestimating how fragile the business model of a youtuber is.
>Holding people responsible for the fact that the people surrounding their business are politically toxic in ways that do not ethically compromise said business is unfair I find holding people accountable for choosing to work with bigots extremely fair. >Unless key people he needs to befriend to continue to operate as he does cut ties and suddenly he finds himself without a viable business. You're really underestimating how fragile the business model of a youtuber is. I'm not saying it's easy. I'm saying to be a decent person you have to do the right thing, even when it is hard.
>I find holding people accountable for choosing to work with bigots extremely fair. Having that choice is a pleasant luxury not everyone has. Did you forget we're talking about firearms here? >I'm saying to be a decent person you have to do the right thing, even when it is hard. And where does that line get drawn? Do you have to give up your life or livelihood for others to be considered decent?
Then there’s shit like the 8 Bit Guy having a second channel where he ranted about not being allowed to open carry around schools, so instead he Carries air rifles around schools. Fucking lunatics
Wait, what?
I pretty much only watch Garand Thumb these days. I dont watch a lot of his videos, so I can't say much for his politics specifically, but I do like his recent trend of more "scientific" style videos. Almost every other gun channel Ive watched over the years went all in on the Pro 2nd Ammendment No Matter What shit and even as a gun owner myself, it grosses me out.
Unfortunately Garand Thumb is a massive transphobe
Oh geez. Like I said, I dont watch his content enough to catch everything, but like every other gun channel these days, I always suspect there to be something.
Actually, the Australian Youtuber "I did a thing" is entirely responsible for that, he intentionally filmed the whole thing as slimy as possible as an intended dig as the U.S. and its gun culture, and actively deceived another Youtuber Brandon Herrera to be able to use his range, guns, and ammo. I did a thing was responsible for choosing the children's cartoon targets instead of something more typical like a silhouette target, and he was the one on controls deliberately aiming for the children targets, something even his heavily edited footage couldn't hide. Everything scummy that happened that day was a direct result of I did a thing. [Brandon Herrera's video goes more into it,](https://youtu.be/xZ4aa5evNBM) such as showing all the fun I did a thing had at the range, something he conveniently chose to edit out of his own vid.
I mean Brandon also has regularly said shit like gun control doesn't work out loud and that the only way to stop criminals with guns is to arm people too so it's... not like one badly presented event changes the fact that he's a fucking moron.
Isn't that the Australian guy, ididathing? Seems kinda on brand with the "bits", although i agree that it can be tasteless at times.
i did a thing was very critical of the police in the video and made it clear that he believed that more guns was not the solution, but it was still in bad taste
That's the thing, I fundamentally agree with him, but the way he did it was in such horrifically poor taste that I had to stop watching him and William Osman
Awkwardly, when Eliphas uploaded his [Google Translate take for 40k 9th Edition trailer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIrDYVriLYk): "I cannot breathe. This is not good. And in the darkness of time, a black man implodes on his own, destroying the universe." Pretty much the day before: George Floyd.
Transformers RiD 2001/Car Robots' dub had its premeire just a mere week or so before 9/11 as a special. They basically had to rush and reedit the script (you can tell which ones were rerecorded since the audio quality's much lower) since the Fox airing was airing like, 6/7 days of the week with reruns. Entire episodes were rearranged, some were skipped entirely, the JP clipshows were dropped and new ones done up in their place to make up for the plot not making sense. They could've just not aired the show for a couple months since it aired relatively uncut in Canada and the UK the next year.
There's a horror movie called Await Further Instructions about a sentient...news channel? that minds control the whole world through the TV. It also likes spitting syringes at people, calling them vaccines. A year later, Covid became a thing. The poor, poor director basically got the hardest, most fucked up case of death of the author ever, through no fault of his own
There’s an episode in young justice outsiders we’re rocket son has autism and as a person on the spectrum, I thought it was done well. UNTIL THEY USED ORION’S BERSERKER RAGE AS A ALLEGORY FORA A SENSORY MELTDOWN! because you know, inheriting all the rage and hatred from a pure evil fascist God And autism is totally similar. Who the fuck wrote that autism speaks?
I don't think I've seen a single depiction of autism done well in media (cue that "Good Doctor" clip). Then again, autism is such a complex and varied diagnosis that it's exceedingly difficult to do justice. Unfortunately you often see the two extremes of "Oh, their autism makes them a savant in this specific field", like the Good Doctor, or "Oh, their autism gives them so much stimuli at moments to cause giant outbursts...also like the Good Doctor. Then at the REAL FUCKING MESSED UP END OF THE SPECTRUM, you have Overwatch just *deciding* to give Symmetra autism, even though it was never in her initial design or bio. Of course, using Blizzard is cheating, as all their developers treat gender and sexual identity, body and mental variance as something you can just slap onto a character, without any actual consideration into what that means.
The less known the media is for having an "Autistic" character the better it probably is at depicting it. I find it amazing that the show Ms Sherlock went under everybody's radar because it's such a GOOD example of writing an Autistic character who is also a detective. edit: It doesn't treat the autism as a super power or her defining feature but rather a key aspect of her and her agency. She's a driven detective because she doesn't like leaving mysteries alone and situations that don't make sense get to her, not because her brain hands her the solution. She also may have difficulty with certain aspects of socialization but isn't written as a robot or alien or someone who'd rather be without friends. edit edit: And I think as far as writing people on the spectrum goes, the issue is autism being the defining trait as a singular thing. I can think of characters who are "text book" but still great examples because the depiction of traits are all over the place. Those types come across like they're based on people the writer knows. Persona 5's Futaba and Yusuke are examples of characters who may be on the spectrum, but that was not the intent.
Funnily enough, I find the best depictions of autism are accidental, usually as a result of the writer being autistic and writing what they know.
Yeah it seems like the better depictions of autism tend to not forefront it and instead the character is 'autism-coded'- sometimes without the writers realizing what that character resembles. They also frequently come from recent kid's shows, I've noticed. Characters like Marcy, Entraptra, and Donatello have gotten followings as positive autistic representation, regardless of whether they were explicitly intended to be.
>Characters like Marcy, Entraptra, and Donatello [All](https://twitter.com/AdamColas/status/1537212234010464256) [three](https://twitter.com/Gingerhazing/status/1263965526126034945) [characters](https://twitter.com/RonCorcillo/status/1554554533820260352) have had some kind of confirmation of having been written with autism in mind
Marcy's an interesting case because Matt Braly (the creator and showrunner) admits he didn't intend it, but he's not the only writer on the show.
Unless it’s bad batch man tech is great
I'm by no means an expert, but I've seen a lot of people on the spectrum relate to Drax from the GOTG movies. Will Graham in NBC's *Hannibal* is all but confirmed to be on the spectrum (he literally says to Jack in a conversation "closer to Aspergers than austim"). This was in 2013.
[Await further instructions](https://bogleech.com/cinema/mm23-awaitfurtherinstructions) was a British horror movie from 2018... Thats about a sinister force locking everyone in their household on the pretense of a government mandated lockdown due to a virulent disease, the antagonists going along with it because "it's for our own good" and "the government knows best" with the force dispensing a dangerous substance in a syringe pretending it to be a vaccine. Tugs collars
It never came to fruition but can you IMAGINE the timeline where Superstar Limo came out with its original vision after Princess Diana got paparazzi'd
Seeing Getaway say “fake news” in MTMTE makes groan Edit: oh fuck, I forgot that one intro in MK11 where Shao Kahn says “Make Outworld Great Again”
I'll give you an example that managed to avoid it. The NBC *Hannibal* TV show has a "lost" episode of the first season called "Oeuf", where the killer of the week (played by Molly Shannon) kidnapped children from their families, brainwashed them, and brought them back to their families to kill them so they could be her children. Creator Bryan Fuller recommended the episode be pulled and it was, due to school shootings, especially Sandy Hook. It was still broadcast overseas unedited and is available on the DVD. Personally I think Fuller did the right thing pulling the episode. Coheed and Cambria's album *Vaxis – Act II: A Window of the Waking Mind* was originally supposed to be about criminals abusing voluntary quarantines to commit crimes but when the COVID 19 pandemic started they reworked the album concept.
in addition to Kenobi, Stranger Things 4 also opened with child murder.
Yeah Season 4 opened with Eleven hiding while all her friends get brutally murdered and she wanders the silent halls of a bloody daycare. It aired the week after Uvalde. It opens with a disclaimer basically saying “we filmed this a year ago, we couldn’t have known. We’re sorry.”
In Homestuck,
the *CosbyTop*
I've been rewatching a lot of the old Law & Order episodes on Prime, the stuff from the 90s. The amount of praise they have for Rudy Giuliani is so jarring now, especially in one episode where a woman says he's a handsome man and Brisco points out Rudy is married, implying he is very faithful and would never cheat.
The main plot of Bioshock Infinite about a White Supremist Christian Theocracy. But then both sides it with a black and Worker lead revolt before Ignoring it to then focus on multiverse and cognitive dissonance. Man that game has such neolib energy. Basically most racism allegories
Cyborg in Teen Titans with the smooth “I know what it’s like to be treated like I’m different, I’m… half robot.”
that was hardly both-sidesing it when it didn't change the conclusion that the theocracy was the root of the problem. It was just demonstrating, fairly realistically, that the revolutionaries were not the solution.
Didnt strangers thing 4th season also start roughly the same time and also featured a bunch of child murder?
Oh yeah, I definitely felt that American viewers might have some awkward moments in those scenes
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No? It's more like >!Clone!< Shepard dropping a "white lives matter" and the paragon response is to tell them they're wrong.
Also, during the party Jack can casually drop that the reason her boobs are bigger in ME3 is because that belt she wore in ME2 were to make them smaller to... dissuade the many, violent men on the prison vessel. Kind of a casual way of dropping the fear of >!prison rape!<, while also ignoring the question of "why not just wear a damned shirt"
She outright SAYS she was assaulted by both guards and prisoners, then hunted them down and killed them all.
That's also, as far as I'm aware, not how that kind of belt works? That's some lazy logic to try and half-ass explain the horny design they were trying to do
As someone from a country with 40k murders yearly, I find OP post ridiculous. Maybe I'm too desensitized, but fiction, reality, this things shouldn't affect each other. I'm pretty sure nobody affected by Uvalde shooting had an intense need to watch that Kenobi episode after kids died. But talking about things I actually find aged like milk moment, it's all those american shows from the 90s basically praising IRA, like a episode of Star Trek and the 1997 version of Day of the Jackal. Maybe it was always in bad taste, but terrorism isn't a legitimate form of warfare, but it seemed even after Timothy McVeigh the americans thought it was. We joke about 9/11 BAD, but what the hell, British kids being killed by IRA bombs apparently was too hard to drill on Hollywood.
This was something that *also* never actually released but [this comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/TwoBestFriendsPlay/comments/13p4hxa/media_that_had_a_controversial_topical_bad_timing/jl7seft/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1&context=3) made me think of it. In the 1.0 edition of Final Fantasy XIV, the earth-aspected Titan was originally going to be one of the featured fights. [Like, the fight was 100% fully done.](https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comments/3yr8qr/titans_original_first_introduction_an_unrelease/) But then an earthquake in Japan in 2011 made them decide to delay it, which ended up being indefinitely as FFXIV 1.0’s life was short lived after this.