Parents mad at Channel 5 for showing Watership Down on Easter

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I've tried convincing my friends to watch it with me. They won't, and there's no way I'm watching it by myself.


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I just watched a couple of those scenes and I'm pretty fucking traumatised.

Had no idea the film was like that.


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I like the part where a rabbit gets caught in a snare trap and blood starts pouring from his mouth.


 
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Probably because Watership Down isn't a children's movie.


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Shit like this is the reason why kids these days are going to grow up being easily offended.

Thanks a lot parents.


 
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I was watching it while eating dinner.

Made me wish I had rabbit, instead of lamb.


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I've never seen this movie before, but how is a cartoon tramautizing adults?


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Shit like this is the reason why kids these days are going to grow up being easily offended.

Thanks a lot parents.

I can understand their outrage. The film is extremely graphic.

Picture the following scenario:

It's late afternoon on Easter Sunday at a family gathering. Most of the festivities have ended; the parents are winding down and talking amongst themselves, and have called the children inside, seeing as they're too tired to watch them play outside. To keep the children occupied, they tell them to turn on the television and watch something; there's probably a children's Easter special airing at the moment. The children turn on the television, and are greeted by extremely graphic and disturbing scenes portraying rabbits being slaughtered in extremely gruesome ways. These children, who could be of any age, are of course scared by this. That's why parents are angry, it's not a case of people being overly-sensitive, at least not in my opinion.


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Shit like this is the reason why kids these days are going to grow up being easily offended.

Thanks a lot parents.

I can understand their outrage. The film is extremely graphic.

Picture the following scenario:

It's late afternoon on Easter Sunday at a family gathering. Most of the festivities have ended; the parents are winding down and talking amongst themselves, and have called the children inside, seeing as they're too tired to watch them play outside. To keep the children occupied, they tell them to turn on the television and watch something; there's probably a children's Easter special airing at the moment. The children turn on the television, and are greeted by extremely graphic and disturbing scenes portraying rabbits being slaughtered in extremely gruesome ways. These children, who could be of any age, are of course scared by this. That's why parents are angry, it's not a case of people being overly-sensitive, at least not in my opinion.

I say good that this got aired either way. Children need the early introduction to grim reality before its too late.

I've seen Watership Down when I was young, really sad and disturbing yes, but in the long run it pretty much shows the grim side of life, not everything is all happy and colorful.
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"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably."
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Shit like this is the reason why kids these days are going to grow up being easily offended.

Thanks a lot parents.

I can understand their outrage. The film is extremely graphic.

Picture the following scenario:

It's late afternoon on Easter Sunday at a family gathering. Most of the festivities have ended; the parents are winding down and talking amongst themselves, and have called the children inside, seeing as they're too tired to watch them play outside. To keep the children occupied, they tell them to turn on the television and watch something; there's probably a children's Easter special airing at the moment. The children turn on the television, and are greeted by extremely graphic and disturbing scenes portraying rabbits being slaughtered in extremely gruesome ways. These children, who could be of any age, are of course scared by this. That's why parents are angry, it's not a case of people being overly-sensitive, at least not in my opinion.
WATERSHIP DOWN IS NOT FOR KIDS

Jesus Christ, any parent who shows their kid this movie is a bigger retard than parents who let their kids play GTA.


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Shit like this is the reason why kids these days are going to grow up being easily offended.

Thanks a lot parents.

I can understand their outrage. The film is extremely graphic.

Picture the following scenario:

It's late afternoon on Easter Sunday at a family gathering. Most of the festivities have ended; the parents are winding down and talking amongst themselves, and have called the children inside, seeing as they're too tired to watch them play outside. To keep the children occupied, they tell them to turn on the television and watch something; there's probably a children's Easter special airing at the moment. The children turn on the television, and are greeted by extremely graphic and disturbing scenes portraying rabbits being slaughtered in extremely gruesome ways. These children, who could be of any age, are of course scared by this. That's why parents are angry, it's not a case of people being overly-sensitive, at least not in my opinion.
WATERSHIP DOWN IS NOT FOR KIDS

Jesus Christ, any parent who shows their kid this movie is a bigger retard than parents who let their kids play GTA.

I actually watched it at a young age without parents permission. You don't see me scarred for life.


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Shit like this is the reason why kids these days are going to grow up being easily offended.

Thanks a lot parents.

I can understand their outrage. The film is extremely graphic.

Picture the following scenario:

It's late afternoon on Easter Sunday at a family gathering. Most of the festivities have ended; the parents are winding down and talking amongst themselves, and have called the children inside, seeing as they're too tired to watch them play outside. To keep the children occupied, they tell them to turn on the television and watch something; there's probably a children's Easter special airing at the moment. The children turn on the television, and are greeted by extremely graphic and disturbing scenes portraying rabbits being slaughtered in extremely gruesome ways. These children, who could be of any age, are of course scared by this. That's why parents are angry, it's not a case of people being overly-sensitive, at least not in my opinion.
WATERSHIP DOWN IS NOT FOR KIDS

Jesus Christ, any parent who shows their kid this movie is a bigger retard than parents who let their kids play GTA.

Well yeah. That's why I think it's very understandable parents are upset.


 
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This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper.
You don't see me scarred for life.
Trust me, everybody here strongly disagrees with you on that.


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You don't see me scarred for life.
Trust me, everybody here strongly disagrees with you on that.

I'll admit its been years since I've seen Watership Down. I'll need to watch it again.


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Shit like this is the reason why kids these days are going to grow up being easily offended.

Thanks a lot parents.

I can understand their outrage. The film is extremely graphic.

Picture the following scenario:

It's late afternoon on Easter Sunday at a family gathering. Most of the festivities have ended; the parents are winding down and talking amongst themselves, and have called the children inside, seeing as they're too tired to watch them play outside. To keep the children occupied, they tell them to turn on the television and watch something; there's probably a children's Easter special airing at the moment. The children turn on the television, and are greeted by extremely graphic and disturbing scenes portraying rabbits being slaughtered in extremely gruesome ways. These children, who could be of any age, are of course scared by this. That's why parents are angry, it's not a case of people being overly-sensitive, at least not in my opinion.

I say good that this got aired either way. Children need the early introduction to grim reality before its too late.

I've seen Watership Down when I was young, really sad and disturbing yes, but in the long run it pretty much shows the grim side of life, not everything is all happy and colorful.
Slow down there, buster.

Sure kids don't need to be illusioned, but there's no reason to show them graphic materials.

Would you justify showing young girls rape pornography to scare them away from stepping out of their homes at night?


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I saw that when I was like six.


 
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"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably."
—Judge Aaron Satie
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Shit like this is the reason why kids these days are going to grow up being easily offended.

Thanks a lot parents.

I can understand their outrage. The film is extremely graphic.

Picture the following scenario:

It's late afternoon on Easter Sunday at a family gathering. Most of the festivities have ended; the parents are winding down and talking amongst themselves, and have called the children inside, seeing as they're too tired to watch them play outside. To keep the children occupied, they tell them to turn on the television and watch something; there's probably a children's Easter special airing at the moment. The children turn on the television, and are greeted by extremely graphic and disturbing scenes portraying rabbits being slaughtered in extremely gruesome ways. These children, who could be of any age, are of course scared by this. That's why parents are angry, it's not a case of people being overly-sensitive, at least not in my opinion.
WATERSHIP DOWN IS NOT FOR KIDS

Jesus Christ, any parent who shows their kid this movie is a bigger retard than parents who let their kids play GTA.

Well yeah. That's why I think it's very understandable parents are upset.
It's understandable that parents knowingly let their kids watch an adult movie, and then get mad when it has adult content?


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Shit like this is the reason why kids these days are going to grow up being easily offended.

Thanks a lot parents.

I can understand their outrage. The film is extremely graphic.

Picture the following scenario:

It's late afternoon on Easter Sunday at a family gathering. Most of the festivities have ended; the parents are winding down and talking amongst themselves, and have called the children inside, seeing as they're too tired to watch them play outside. To keep the children occupied, they tell them to turn on the television and watch something; there's probably a children's Easter special airing at the moment. The children turn on the television, and are greeted by extremely graphic and disturbing scenes portraying rabbits being slaughtered in extremely gruesome ways. These children, who could be of any age, are of course scared by this. That's why parents are angry, it's not a case of people being overly-sensitive, at least not in my opinion.
WATERSHIP DOWN IS NOT FOR KIDS

Jesus Christ, any parent who shows their kid this movie is a bigger retard than parents who let their kids play GTA.

Well yeah. That's why I think it's very understandable parents are upset.
It's understandable that parents knowingly let their kids watch an adult movie, and then get mad when it has adult content?

It's an animated film, they probably didn't know it was a film for adults They would know when there children started crying or something because of the content.


 
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"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably."
—Judge Aaron Satie
——Carmen
Shit like this is the reason why kids these days are going to grow up being easily offended.

Thanks a lot parents.

I can understand their outrage. The film is extremely graphic.

Picture the following scenario:

It's late afternoon on Easter Sunday at a family gathering. Most of the festivities have ended; the parents are winding down and talking amongst themselves, and have called the children inside, seeing as they're too tired to watch them play outside. To keep the children occupied, they tell them to turn on the television and watch something; there's probably a children's Easter special airing at the moment. The children turn on the television, and are greeted by extremely graphic and disturbing scenes portraying rabbits being slaughtered in extremely gruesome ways. These children, who could be of any age, are of course scared by this. That's why parents are angry, it's not a case of people being overly-sensitive, at least not in my opinion.
WATERSHIP DOWN IS NOT FOR KIDS

Jesus Christ, any parent who shows their kid this movie is a bigger retard than parents who let their kids play GTA.

Well yeah. That's why I think it's very understandable parents are upset.
It's understandable that parents knowingly let their kids watch an adult movie, and then get mad when it has adult content?

It's an animated film, they probably didn't know it was a film for adults They would know when there children started crying or something because of the content.
That's on the parents 100%. You don't show your kid something unless you know what it is, anything else is pure laziness. This is no different then letting your kid watch Family Guy because "all cartoons are for kids lol"


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Shit like this is the reason why kids these days are going to grow up being easily offended.

Thanks a lot parents.

I can understand their outrage. The film is extremely graphic.

Picture the following scenario:

It's late afternoon on Easter Sunday at a family gathering. Most of the festivities have ended; the parents are winding down and talking amongst themselves, and have called the children inside, seeing as they're too tired to watch them play outside. To keep the children occupied, they tell them to turn on the television and watch something; there's probably a children's Easter special airing at the moment. The children turn on the television, and are greeted by extremely graphic and disturbing scenes portraying rabbits being slaughtered in extremely gruesome ways. These children, who could be of any age, are of course scared by this. That's why parents are angry, it's not a case of people being overly-sensitive, at least not in my opinion.
WATERSHIP DOWN IS NOT FOR KIDS

Jesus Christ, any parent who shows their kid this movie is a bigger retard than parents who let their kids play GTA.

Well yeah. That's why I think it's very understandable parents are upset.
It's understandable that parents knowingly let their kids watch an adult movie, and then get mad when it has adult content?

It's an animated film, they probably didn't know it was a film for adults They would know when there children started crying or something because of the content.
That's on the parents 100%. You don't show your kid something unless you know what it is, anything else is pure laziness. This is no different then letting your kid watch Family Guy because "all cartoons are for kids lol"

Yeah but it's easy to distinguish between programs like Family Guy and Scooby Doo or something. At first glance, Watership Down doesn't look like an adult film. It has a similar art style and general look to The Secret of Nim. Only when the program gets to gory sections would you know it's an adult film, otherwise it's rather innocuous.


 
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"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably."
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Shit like this is the reason why kids these days are going to grow up being easily offended.

Thanks a lot parents.

I can understand their outrage. The film is extremely graphic.

Picture the following scenario:

It's late afternoon on Easter Sunday at a family gathering. Most of the festivities have ended; the parents are winding down and talking amongst themselves, and have called the children inside, seeing as they're too tired to watch them play outside. To keep the children occupied, they tell them to turn on the television and watch something; there's probably a children's Easter special airing at the moment. The children turn on the television, and are greeted by extremely graphic and disturbing scenes portraying rabbits being slaughtered in extremely gruesome ways. These children, who could be of any age, are of course scared by this. That's why parents are angry, it's not a case of people being overly-sensitive, at least not in my opinion.
WATERSHIP DOWN IS NOT FOR KIDS

Jesus Christ, any parent who shows their kid this movie is a bigger retard than parents who let their kids play GTA.

Well yeah. That's why I think it's very understandable parents are upset.
It's understandable that parents knowingly let their kids watch an adult movie, and then get mad when it has adult content?

It's an animated film, they probably didn't know it was a film for adults They would know when there children started crying or something because of the content.
That's on the parents 100%. You don't show your kid something unless you know what it is, anything else is pure laziness. This is no different then letting your kid watch Family Guy because "all cartoons are for kids lol"

Yeah but it's easy to distinguish between programs like Family Guy and Scooby Doo or something. At first glance, Watership Down doesn't look like an adult film. It has a similar art style and general look to The Secret of Nim. Only when the program gets to gory sections would you know it's an adult film, otherwise it's rather innocuous.
Again, that doesn't matter. When you let your child watch TV, you research what she's watching. If you don't, you have no right to bitch when your negligence makes her watch an adult movie.