Escape Artists
Escape Pod => About Escape Pod => Topic started by: Mr. Tweedy on May 25, 2007, 06:26:26 PM
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I wanted to make a brief comment about the G rating for "8 Episodes," especially in relation to the R rating of the last story, "The House Beyond Your Sky." IMHO, thinly-veiled references to oral sex and a main character who divorces his wife to spend long evenings with three mistresses are not general-audience material, even if the descritpions are not explicit. I'd actually be a lot more concerned with my daughter hearing this G rated story than the R rated "House."
Hearing "8" would raise fun questions like "Why was the lady wiping her mouth?" and "What's are mistresses?" In contrast, "House" contained nothing worse than the F-word, which she hears anyway every time someone drives by with their gangsta rap blasting.
I think both stories warranted a "PG" rather than the rating they got.
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I think House's domestic violence would rate it an "R", or at least a "PG-13" (if escape pod uses that).
I agree about "8 episodes." It didn't change my enjoyment of it, but a PG might have been more appropriate. I would definately not rate them the same.
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I agree, but Escape Pod doesn't have a PG-13 (at least, I don't think so).
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I don't know. I just think it's cool that they rate them at all.
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When I used to post stories on one of my now-defunct websites, I used a mix of TV and movies and video games:
E - Everyone
PG - Parental Guidance
14 - 14 and over
R - 17 and over
MA - Mature audiences (meaning: explicit sex)
*shrug*
I would have to have given 8E at least a PG.
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I wanted to make a brief comment about the G rating for "8 Episodes," especially in relation to the R rating of the last story, "The House Beyond Your Sky." IMHO, thinly-veiled references to oral sex and a main character who divorces his wife to spend long evenings with three mistresses are not general-audience material, even if the descritpions are not explicit. I'd actually be a lot more concerned with my daughter hearing this G rated story than the R rated "House."
Actually, Mr. Tweedy... Good point. I'd forgotten about that when I was posting the episode and thinking about a rating. Another listener raised a similar point in e-mail yesterday.
I've just changed it to PG and altered the warning in the blog post slightly. Thanks for raising the question.
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I wanted to make a brief comment about the G rating for "8 Episodes," especially in relation to the R rating of the last story, "The House Beyond Your Sky." IMHO, thinly-veiled references to oral sex and a main character who divorces his wife to spend long evenings with three mistresses are not general-audience material, even if the descritpions are not explicit. I'd actually be a lot more concerned with my daughter hearing this G rated story than the R rated "House."
Actually, Mr. Tweedy... Good point. I'd forgotten about that when I was posting the episode and thinking about a rating. Another listener raised a similar point in e-mail yesterday.
I've just changed it to PG and altered the warning in the blog post slightly. Thanks for raising the question.
Forum post has also been changed.