IMO, we should give COVID-19 it's own page like 9/11 has. It's starting to become more obvious that several forms of media are being affected by this and we will likely see several more episodes or scenes cut out for their resemblance of the pandemic in the near future
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COVID-19 is an interesting example because a lot of media is affected by it not just because of political correctness but just because of public safety issues. Would, for example, the postponement of No Time to Die and many other films be considered an example, since we did decide it's too soon to go to the movies right now, but not because it reminds us of recent events as much as that recent events make going to the movie theater hazardous?
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I think postponing films not because of events in film but just because it's unsafe to go to the movies would fall under Release Date Change, in my opinion. Too Soon is best fitted for examples in which illnesses or the like are removed in the media to avoid reminding people of COVID, like actions films with explosions were in the aftermath of 9/11.
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I don't quite agree on that one, as I think that sort of thing could easily be covered on the Useful information page about COVID itself, no need to create a separate page of fictional media examples. Besides we aren't seeing too many examples of media delayed because of it's plots resembling the event in question, all the delays of films are purely out of safety reasons.
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decided to rename Too Soon to Distanced from Current Events.
Annnnd I don't like the new name. It's too descriptive and stale compared to the original Too Soon name.
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Yeah I really don't get the reason behind this name change, every other trope name-change on TV Tropes has made perfect sense, but this one really makes me scratch my head. As the whole thing with voice-actors for black characters voice-actors changing isn't technically "distanced from current events" at all really, its more a general response. Besides "Too Soon" is a phrase you often hear characters in TV shows like Family Guy say as a joke, so making into a trope is perfect sense, this is just overly complicated and confusing as hell as a trope name.
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When a celebrity becomes controversial and the shows involving them are pulled from the network, is that considered this trope? The Live Action page lists Jimmy Savile's work being pulled as an example, but would it be the same for, say, cancelling the reboot and pulling reruns of the original Roseanne after Roseanne Barr's racist tweet?
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"This has Unfortunate Implications, in that it allows the terrorists to destroy the World Trade Center retroactively."
I know it's a little off topic, but all things considered those terrorists were successful in most if not all their goals in destroying the World Trade Center.
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I assume that entry means "retroactively as well as actuality" or something.
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The Watch is listed under Advertising and Films... should it only be in Advertising, since it's just the marketing for it that was changed?
What's going on with history? Whenever I click on it says 0 of 0 for whatever reason.
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A number of pages got their histories wiped by mistake, meaning that until someone edits them again (thus making a new event to record in the history) it shows the last 0 changes of 0.
That was the amazing part. Things just keep going.
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I'm confused about this entry:
"Apparently, it is still too soon to joke about the crucifixion of Christ. Stephen Lynch Live at the El Ray includes a song called "Craig Christ" which has a single line about Jesus' brother Craig's feelings about the crucifixion: "Jesus was our mother's fave, all our love to him she gave//but there's no sibling rivalry, when he's nailed to that tree..." The audience, which has laughed through all the rest of the song, makes shocked gasps."
OK, I've not seen this, so I don't have the full context, but how is that Too Soon? That just sounds like not finding it funny.
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Wouldn't Gottleib's 911 jokes at the celebrity roast which then led to his infamous Aristocrats joke be considered a potential 'Too Soon?'?
That one.
"The Japanese version of Advance Wars, Game Boy Wars Advance, was slated for an October 2001 release in Japan. It was pulled and wasn't properly released until 2004, when it was included in a 2-in-1 bundle with its sequel."
This misses quite a bit of context to be under this trope, no? Having played the game, I can only guess that the Yellow Comet faction was too... too... no, how is this Too Soon?
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A couple of the Simpsons references under "9/11, Western animation" are in the wrong place - a Princess Diana reference, and this: "And in 2011, when Japan went through a nuclear crisis due to a plant that got damaged in the Tohoku earthquake, a German channel either censored or banned all [Simpsons] episodes featuring the nuclear plant (which means a lot of early episodes in which Homer was steadily employed there [...] will never be seen again — save for DVD and home video release)."
I don't think this is accurate - it's only described as temporary in the reports I've read (Berliner Zeitung and Bild-Zeitung from March 2011). The Swiss and German channels said they would replace any nuclear-themed episodes for a while, which I'm sure most broadcasters did. The German Pro 7 spokesperson is quoted as saying it hadn't even been necessary yet - and there's no mention of individual scenes being censored.
Fukushima was a big issue in Germany, with the chancellor announcing plant closures by 2022 as a result of it, but this entry seems quite exaggerated. (And in the wrong section)
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It's surprising that nobody gets offended by how 'time passing makes it okay' it's not as if the people come back to life.
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Yeah, but that's not remotely the point of it. Time heals wounds, including emotional ones, plain and simple. The longer it's been since something happened, the more a person is detached from it emotionally.
How long would it typically be before something is no longer considered "too soon"?
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"Too soon"...what gutless, cowardly, lily-livered pandering. Nobody ever has the right to not be offended. There is no reason why these outdated taboos should be allowed to exist.
"How long would it typically be before something is no longer considered "too soon"?"
For some things it seems like never.
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I really can't say. There are events, such as Hurricane Katrina and the more recent Tohoku disaster, that are obviously "too soon" right now. Some events, however, such as 9-11 and the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, are still considered "too soon" despite being a decade and over half a century over, respectively.
And sometimes I wish our universe and the Tokimeki Memorial universe shall one day converge.
Main Man J: For the Spider-Man 2 video game entry, is it really necessary to have a spoiler tag for Electro's name? The game's subtitle is "Enter Electro" and he's very clearly the main villain throughout the entire game. Assuming he's the final boss isn't much of a stretch.
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Was the strip removed/self-censored? If not, it doesn't fit the current definition.