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@Arkandel I fail to care if that is on topic, that link is best link.
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Mr. Robot starts up soon and it will be the best show of the summer.
I'm a rodeo clown.
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@tragedyjones I just started watching that and it's pretty intriguing.
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@Arkandel: I find that Vikings is a pretty good fill-in for my fantasy-historical needs. It's available on Amazon Prime, which also offers The Man in the High Castle.
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@Arkandel I started out pretty lukewarm to Preacher, but I'm starting to get into it now that we're getting a bit into the season.
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@Arkandel: I find that Vikings is a pretty good fill-in for my fantasy-historical needs. It's available on Amazon Prime, which also offers The Man in the High Castle.
Vikings is awesome. If you don't mind a modernish plague story, The Last Ship isn't bad either (Gotta love Jane being CO of the ship). Season 1 and 2 are out, though finding them may be problematic I don't know what kind of deal Hulu has with it.
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I'm told Outlander is fun, but I hates the time travel too much to really consider it. I
ESIf you find yourself with a bit of time to spare, I urge you to try anyway. I -also- think the time travel is kind of stupid? The way they do it is certainly stupid, and after the actual traveling the story becomes more like A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court only with a British nurse in Scotland instead. That's only a facet of the story though, the rest is kind of sweeping historical and romance novel and...hmm. I read the first two books and found them a drag, so it may not even be the story alone that hooks me but the actors are SO good and the sets are SO pretty and its just worth watching to remind yourself why HDtv is a thing people wanted.
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Ew. I found the The Last Ship to be a jingoistic 'MURRICA nightmare of epic proportions. No suggesting from the peanut gallery on that one.
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@Arkandel I quite enjoy Turn, season 3 should be wrapping pretty soon.
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@EmmahSue Considering there isn't any 'Murica' of any sort left in the story... I don't follow.
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@Arkandel In response to your comment about Back to the Future... I give you...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpUZWIwdp_E&index=9&list=PL5CC44F2C10A8415C
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-NEZC2uH-Q&index=58&list=PL5CC44F2C10A8415CThe people who can find fault with BttF.
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@ThugHeaven said in Good TV:
@tragedyjones I just started watching that and it's pretty intriguing.
Oh, you sweet summer child...
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@EmmahSue Considering there isn't any 'Murica' of any sort left in the story... I don't follow.
There doesn't need to be an America left for it to be a jingoistic show extoling the 'Murrican virtues, rah rah, etc. And I found it super jingoistic, too, concurring with @EmmahSue.
But I'm a communist, so.
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As seen on Twitter:
who run the world
GIRLS
who sit on thrones
GIRLS
who make the speeches
GIRLS
how bout the library
NO WOMEN NO CHILDRENWhen I first read your comment something was nagging me about it but I couldn't place it...like I had read something else similar recently.
It finally came to me this morning! It was in Ian Mortimer's excellent The Time Traveller's Guide To Elizabethan England where he was discussing the real life historical period.
In one of the book's chapters Mortimer was going over the respective rights of either gender back then and was rather dryly pointing out that although Elizabeth herself was the absolute monarch of the time, feared and respected throughout the realm - there were several rebellions to challenge her reign of course but they didn't end well for those leading them - women had very few other opportunities to rise to any position at all. They couldn't be magistrates or judges or, of course, priests - hell, even physicians other than nurses. They could be scholars (translators, etc) but that was about it.
So even in real life! ABSOLUTE POWER in the hands of a woman with the literal (and often demonstrated!) power to be rid of officials and members of parliament at will, disgracing or chop-chopping their heads if they nagged her? Sure thing! But A WOMAN as small town mayor? lolno.
Human beings, right?
- He who takes offense when not intended is a fool. He who takes offense when intended is a greater fool.
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As seen on Twitter:
who run the world
GIRLS
who sit on thrones
GIRLS
who make the speeches
GIRLS
how bout the library
NO WOMEN NO CHILDRENWhen I first read your comment something was nagging me about it but I couldn't place it...like I had read something else similar recently.
It finally came to me this morning! It was in Ian Mortimer's excellent The Time Traveller's Guide To Elizabethan England where he was discussing the real life historical period.
In one of the book's chapters Mortimer was going over the respective rights of either gender back then and was rather dryly pointing out that although Elizabeth herself was the absolute monarch of the time, feared and respected throughout the realm - there were several rebellions to challenge her reign of course but they didn't end well for those leading them - women had very few other opportunities to rise to any position at all. They couldn't be magistrates or judges or, of course, priests - hell, even physicians other than nurses. They could be scholars (translators, etc) but that was about it.
So even in real life! ABSOLUTE POWER in the hands of a woman with the literal (and often demonstrated!) power to be rid of officials and members of parliament at will, disgracing or chop-chopping their heads if they nagged her? Sure thing! But A WOMAN as small town mayor? lolno.
Human beings, right?
Kind of like how we live in a world where women can now lead their countries as elected presidents, for example, but there is still a large wage gap between genders in most work sectors? I mean, patriarchy, bro. S'a thing.
"Excuse the hell out of you. He's a bag of dicks. I'm a carefully curated box of cocks." -- to @GirlCalledBlu upon being misrepresented.
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Kind of like how we live in a world where women can now lead their countries as elected presidents, for example, but there is still a large wage gap between genders in most work sectors? I mean, patriarchy, bro. S'a thing.
The same applies to black minorities.
“It is better to live doing the things that you like. It is foolish to live within this dream of a world seeing unpleasantness and doing only things that you do not like.” -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo.
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BrainDead is so good.
That's all.
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