Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26373999-20170331110735/@comment-27700324-20170511173655

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Stryzzar wrote: I tried to move the thread back on topic, but one reply later it goes straight back to Savitar.

Btw, stabbing is still relatively mild for TV violence. But onscreen decapitation typically needs to show viewer discretion, unless it's R-rated. When Supernatural does it, it's done very quickly and cleanly, without any blood. Or my example, Highlander. Just like in the movie, the main character has to cut off people's heads to stay immortal. Again, depends on how bloodily it was done. Also, Highlander is far from a family friendly show.

Yes, Flash does contain killing and death, but for the most part, there is nothing in there which is a strict no-no for kids under 15. How about that husk? The more fantastical, scifi deaths usually don't get redflagged. It's the realistically bloody gory ones that get in trouble.

Doctor Who has done that for decades and the only time the censors made a fuss was showing John Barrowman's naked butt. How is that a fantastical sci-fi death? It was a real looking husk that creeped me out when i watched the episode around the time i was 12-13. Well do we get people rapidly turning into husks irl? Otherwise it's just as scifi-y as lasers or disintegration. People turn into husks eventually in real life. Not as quick as in the show, but does it really matter about speed? It is still extremely gory. Hey, I don't make the rules okay. Doctor Who commentary revealed all of the really weird death, including several I was utterly disturbed by, never rang any censor alarm bells. Keep in mind they've had: disintegration, dissolving, vaporization, eaten alive, crumbled to ash, and heaps of other really weird ones. All those made it past the family friendly tick of approval. Maybe it didn't look as gross? Though there have been some disturbing Doctor Who deaths, they often do censor them. A kid got eaten alive in a recent episode, but he was eaten underwater and we only get to see his hand the time it was happening. For someone who's been watching Doctor Who for a long time, I assure you that nothing on the Flash has come close to the really disturbing Doctor Who deaths. Pretty sure they've done husks heaps of times.

By censor I mean they put something into the show and then it either gets removed or banned in some country. The John Barrowman naked shot actually got knocked back, so they had to put in a prop to cover up his butt. They have had a person walking around with rotting flesh on Doctor Who, so yeah nothing Flash did exceeded that. Gotham on the other hand...

Still though, just because it was less disturbing than Doctor Who doesn't mean it wasn't at all.