chumbucket - 2013-06-04
Never watched this show, don't plan to, but this was worth watching. Over and over again.
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simon666 - 2013-06-04
New Yakety Sax?
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violenza - 2013-06-04
dumb
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takewithfood - 2013-06-04
Why is anyone shocked by anything that happens in this show? It's season 3 already. Figure it out.
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Jet Bin Fever - 2013-06-04
Oh man.
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Bort - 2013-06-04
Nearly a shot-for-shot remake of Sam Peckinpah's "Salad Days".
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Bort - 2013-06-05 http://www.poetv.com/video.php?vid=2417
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William Topaz McGonagall - 2013-06-04
Whoever made this was waiting three years to do it, wasn't he?
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cognitivedissonance - 2013-06-04
Interestingly, as the characters on screen were being murdered at the Red Wedding, so was the cultural concept of the Middle Brow, in exactly the same way.
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EvilHomer - 2013-06-04 It's got plenty of intellectual content, middle brow intellectual content. Not too deep, not too shallow, it's a cut above your average popcorn flick - with plenty of flawed, dynamic characters - while not "saying" anything particularly deep or profound (unless you consider "incest can be fun!" to be a profound statement). I'd say that fits middle brow quite well!
As for the gorno, Shakespeare, Homer, and Chrischan were all bloody, vicious, and gory, yet I don't think any of us would argue that the presence of these things in any way diminished their work's cultural credentials.
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That guy - 2013-06-04 I'm not saying that violence, sex, surprise or intrigue rule out or lessen any intellectual content. But in the case of GoT there's so much pulpy, good fun [and British accents] that it's making people confuse "This is good as in enjoyable and well-made" with "This is good as in meritorious, as in smart". Regardless of whether one needs more than enjoyability out of tv, there's nothing that pushes the show past "well-made high-concept plot-boiler with titties and chopping".
The characters are flawed, but not dynamic that I can tell. Who goes through notable changes? Jon Snow, *maybe*, Danerys *maybe*.
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subduralhematoma - 2013-06-04
The Rains of Keyboard Catamere
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Old_Zircon - 2013-06-04
Keyboard Cat may be the first meme to age well.
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Spaceman Africa - 2013-06-06
That was dumb
A good dumb
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