The Professionals rewatch s1
Jan. 8th, 2022 11:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Watching the eps on Britbox, two of the s1 episodes carry a warning that says something like how the content met the broadcasting standards and mores of the time but viewers might find it offensive.
Watching s1.4, Killer With a Long Arm tonight, have realised that they are actually censoring content as well. The closing scene has Bodie and Doyle in Cowley's office looking through the scope of a high powered rifle and debating whether something is '36-24-34', Cowley comes in and looks through the scope and the viewer sees that they are perving on a woman in her underwear. He then jokingly reprimands them for an incomplete report and says 'she's 5'7", 130 pounds, and a blonde.' What he really said, was 'a natural blonde'. Apparently that crude joke was one step too far?
That episode was always of my faves, lots of Bodie and Doyle content, including them talking about how a ghetto is people taking care of each other, which made the two of them a mobile ghetto (at 10:10 mark), and the plot is still engaging. It's just now I have to ignore all the sexism towards all the women all the time, not just in the way the men talk to them, but in the way the writers write them. Lol, the one female conspirator in the gang sucked up to the imported assassin, tried to seduce him, was sent out to do the food shopping then panicked when she saw a friendly policeman and ran away flailing only to be dramatically run over.
Oh well, I'm just hear for the Bodie/Doyle content :)
Watching s1.4, Killer With a Long Arm tonight, have realised that they are actually censoring content as well. The closing scene has Bodie and Doyle in Cowley's office looking through the scope of a high powered rifle and debating whether something is '36-24-34', Cowley comes in and looks through the scope and the viewer sees that they are perving on a woman in her underwear. He then jokingly reprimands them for an incomplete report and says 'she's 5'7", 130 pounds, and a blonde.' What he really said, was 'a natural blonde'. Apparently that crude joke was one step too far?
That episode was always of my faves, lots of Bodie and Doyle content, including them talking about how a ghetto is people taking care of each other, which made the two of them a mobile ghetto (at 10:10 mark), and the plot is still engaging. It's just now I have to ignore all the sexism towards all the women all the time, not just in the way the men talk to them, but in the way the writers write them. Lol, the one female conspirator in the gang sucked up to the imported assassin, tried to seduce him, was sent out to do the food shopping then panicked when she saw a friendly policeman and ran away flailing only to be dramatically run over.
Oh well, I'm just hear for the Bodie/Doyle content :)