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[healingmirth]

I'm still trying to catch up on things, where by catching up I mean at least pass my eyes over the content. I've made it back to June 28? But as a result not seen anything posted this weekend. Watched the tennis this afternoon, sat outside a bunch and read some of the most recent Shousetsu Bang*Bang

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Fireworks continue unabated. Our town's were supposed to be Thursday, but got rain-dated to tomorrow. Definitely woken by an explosion of some sort at around 7am today. It's just gotten dark, and there's definitely yet another fireworks display tonight somewhere to the east. They're all far enough away to be below the tree-top horizon, hooray suburbia, so I get all of the noise and none of the pretty colors. At least the cat has been tolerating it better than in past years.

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I've just discovered that The Musketeers is showing on BBC America, which means it's probably a good time for me to get around to watching it if I ever want to get into the fandom. I will mostly refrain from asking you what I am not going to google right now, which is whether the episodes airing in the US have clearly been edited from their original airing... but if you happen to know whether the episodes been edited, I will gratefully receive that information :)

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If you're the type of person who likes that kind of thing, The Last Ship is not terrible. Bear in mind that I know basically nothing about epidemiology and only slightly more than the average yahoo about biology, and thus I am blissfully unconcerned about the more detailed sciency bits being accurate. There is, in fact, one major sciency bit that I'm pretty sure is BLATANTLY false, but I've chosen to ignore it for now. Featuring Eric Dane being stoic, Adam Baldwin being a lot less fun than Jayne, and a decent-for-Hollywood effort at diverse casting, if still a bit whiter than real life.

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If you like, IDK, Law & Order, but you wish it was just a bit more like Grey's Anatomy Murder in the First is also not terrible. It's probably pretty good if you like Tom Felton and Taye Diggs and that chick who played, I think, a bad girl on 90210. (Kathleen Robertson - I thought at first that she had been the bad girl on Dawson's Creek, but no, that's Busy Phillips, and in realizing that I now realize that Busy's friendship with Michelle Williams isn't completely random.)

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[silverr]

"which is whether the episodes airing in the US have clearly been edited from their original airing... but if you happen to know whether the episodes been edited, I will gratefully receive that information :)"

This is also something I'd be interested in knowing, (I'm captaining it over on tv_talk, but I haven't watched any episodes myself yet.)

[healingmirth]

This isn't definitive, but a quick google wasn't helpful, so:

I just checked my files, and the BBC episodes were right around 55 minutes to the end of the credits, with no commercials. According to my DVR, the episodes airing on BBC America are 75 minutes.

55/20 seems close enough to the typical ratio of content to commercials that I'd guess they're the original episodes. Unless there's some weird/sporadic censoring of content or language (unlikely, I'd think, from BBC One to basic cable, but you never know) it seems like it should all be there. Yay!

[silverr]

*nods* I think that's a reasonable conclusion. Granted, BBCA isn't HBO, but then I'm guessing Musketeers is no GoT in terms of content "unsuitable for younger or more sensitive viewers."

If it's helpful, I'll run a stopwatch when I watch it.

(BTW, what made you think it might have been censored? Has BBCA censored content before?)

[healingmirth]

Oh, I don't think BBC America regularly censors things, or would have any reason to in this instance. I just know better than to assume TV networks make decisions the same way I would :)