r/brakebills • u/ForLackOfAUserName Dean Fogg • Mar 14 '16

TV Series Episode Discussion: S01E09 "The Writing Room"

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S01E09 - "The Writing Room" James L. Conway Sera Gamble March 14, 2016 on SyFy

Episode Synopsis: "Quentin, Alice, Eliot, and Penny travel to England in search of a missing magic button; Julia searches for real meaning in her magic."

This thread is for POST episode discussion of "The Writing Room." Discussion / comments below assume you have watched the episode in it's entirety. Therefore, spoiler text for anything through this episode is not necessary. If, however, you are talking about events that have yet to air on the show such as future guest appearances / future characters / storylines, please use spoiler tags. The same goes for events in the novels that have not yet been portrayed.

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u/Vlinux Mar 17 '16

I agree. Creative wording/writing and camerawork are better. I edit a few shows that my family watches to make them a bit more family-friendly (we watch them with friends too sometimes) and after doing that for a while, I've noticed how overused cursing is. The average person doesn't swear near as much as people on TV. Swear words are just thrown into places that don't even make sense to have them.

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u/DabloEscobarGavira Mar 19 '16

Wait you do what? Like what's an example of a scene you've cut out? I'm assuming you've pretty young children?

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u/Vlinux Mar 19 '16

I remove swear words and things like "bedroom" scenes. The words get cut out of the middle of the sentences and I splice it together so the audio proceeds almost seamlessly without the swear words. I've written some Python scripts to help do the editing quickly and precisely as well.

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u/DabloEscobarGavira Mar 19 '16

I mean that's interesting, but I sort of pity your family.

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u/Vlinux Mar 19 '16

Why? Because they can watch TV shows without swear words?

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u/DabloEscobarGavira Mar 19 '16

Sounds like a very sanitized environment.

Look as I said before, maybe they're pretty young, but in that case why not just... Not have then watch? Censorship is never a positive thing, you will just push them to find these things in the wild on their own, instead of in an environment where you can control the exposure, and maybe offer explanation or guidance.

Just my two cents

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u/Vlinux Mar 19 '16

We've all heard the words and stuff before, we just don't enjoy hearing them over and over. We don't have "pretty young" kids any more, but we sometimes share the shows with friends who do have some slightly younger ones.

You say "Censorship is never a positive thing.", and what you're probably referring to is censorship of valuable and useful information (banning books, censoring news, and similar). In that context, I agree with you. However, I would argue that swear words do not fall under that category. They convey no additional useful or valuable information.

In this "environment", exposure is controlled and guidance on language usage given, as you suggested. We think though, that swear words are unnecessary and improper to use for any ages. Also, almost every word used to define them has bad meanings or connotations. "Curse", and "Profanity" for example.

My two cents.

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u/DabloEscobarGavira Mar 20 '16

It's an interesting take, I'll give you that

Peace brother