Captioning censored on AMC (but shows aren't)

AMC does this with Breaking Bad as well.

Audio is not bleeped, but captions are.

Well, the really bad words are bleeped and caption edited,
but the lesser of the bad 7 aren't bleeped but still edited captions.


phox

 

Been brought up on these boards several times before.

 

Here's the thread I started about Breaking Bad:

http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?t=445748&highlight=closed+caption

 

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Apropos of nothing (and I know I'm threadjacking big time), but my favorite 'huh' moment for censoring was on the "clean" XM comedy station a couple of years ago, and they played the chris rock bit about getting one's salad tossed. Naturally, they did bleep out "*******", etc., whatever other "dirty" terms were used. However, the truly bizzare part was that they bleeped out either "salad" or "toss" (I forget which). How in the world would someone know that that phrase is "dirty" unless they had heard the routine before??!! It always stumped me.

 

That right there ought to tell you something.

 

I saw this same thing on another show that I watched recently - think it was The Glades on USA.

 

I think Trainman is to blame.

 

Go read Cheesesteak's thread.

 

I didn't read the other thread, maybe I commented in there too.. I saw the opposite happening in the past week or so. I *think* it was on an episode of "My Life on the D-List". It was for what I'd call "second tier" bad words. I think it was 'ass', actually (though I think she also said a-hole, and that was bleeped in both audio and captions). They bleeped the sound, but it was in the captions.

I'm fairly certain I've seen the same thing happen on broadcast channels too.

 

Doesn't the CC system allow for multiple captions? Couldn't the first one be the edited version and the second the unedited version? Maybe the additional costs of having two sets of captions is too high for this to be reality?

Seems like this would be a decent solution. Makes those who are offended by bad words not have to see them but, allows the rest of us to chose to see them if we want.

For the record I only use captions (when available) on video games. And on occasion I have used it to figure out what someone said when the voice dialog is too low.

 

Yeah the lack of consistency makes no sense. If I can hear the word you should be able to read the word.

 

I can understand making clean captions available. They just shouldn't be the default closed caption setting. I should have to select CC2 (or something like that) for clean captions.

 

I agree. I've noticed this behavior. It's even stranger when you consider Breaking Bad's first season was fine.

 

I have always wondered why I need protection from language that I hear in normal conversation such as damn etc. The stuff should not be censored at all.

 

Hah. Be careful. The censors might make sure both are censored.

I agree with you, I hate the bleeping in either CC or audio. And making a sound is silly to me, because it draws such attention to the words being bleeped. Of course, then I rewind to figure out what they said.