gyrofry posted:did yospos exaggerated lust for christina hendricks reflect a positive trend in terms of progress toward cultural acceptance for more realistic curvy goonette body types, or a negative in terms of social acceptance for gluttony and erosion of physical appearance standards
The game of thrones
Skylark posted:As a marxist, I really love the drama on the newest Hbo spectacle or whatever, I love the characters, and the fashion, it keeps me coming back every week. TV, youve done it again.
u mad... man?
discipline posted:emptiness and despair brought on by existing so close to the beating heart of consumer capitalism. The further you are from the core, the happier you have a chance to become. Yet the closer you get, the more it pays, and it pays better precisely because you are expected to forfeit your dignity and humanity on demand
i think its problematic to say the margins of power are happier
but i really hate the usual answer "check your privilege... because its awesome and i want to implicitly compliment power and capitalism" etc
"let us make the effort to imagine a whole new world so we can put our laser-like foccus on scenes of austerity, war, rich machinations and rape alone. lets imagine precisely to not imagine"
Prospero posted:its the greatest thing how fans try to convince people to watch game of thrones by saying "its fantasy, but chill, there's no fantasy, it's dark and realistic". like, no its not and why would i watch it if it was?
"let us make the effort to imagine a whole new world so we can put our laser-like foccus on scenes of austerity, war, rich machinations and rape alone. lets imagine precisely to not imagine"
That's why so many people like it. Fiction has no obligation to conform to your dull notions of what's "politically relevant" or important. Game of Thrones glories in a depoliticized world and if you can't handle it it's a failure of your imagination
Ironicwarcriminal posted:Prospero posted:its the greatest thing how fans try to convince people to watch game of thrones by saying "its fantasy, but chill, there's no fantasy, it's dark and realistic". like, no its not and why would i watch it if it was?
"let us make the effort to imagine a whole new world so we can put our laser-like foccus on scenes of austerity, war, rich machinations and rape alone. lets imagine precisely to not imagine"That's why so many people like it. Fiction has no obligation to conform to your dull notions of what's "politically relevant" or important. Game of Thrones glories in a depoliticized world and if you can't handle it it's a failure of your imagination
In what sense is the Game of Thrones world depoliticized?
Skylark posted:As a marxist, I really love the drama on the newest Hbo spectacle or whatever, I love the characters, and the fashion, it keeps me coming back every week. TV, youve done it again.
Because every true revolutionary knows being a marxist means you should never appreciate anything besides tv shows for gay children and kawaii sadbrains chat or w/e
Ironicwarcriminal posted:Game of Thrones glories in a depoliticized world and if you can't handle it it's a failure of your imagination
huh? its precisely too "political"
my favorite moment is still jon hamm reading frank o'hara at the end of the season 2 finale though
aerdil posted:yeah the last two mad men eps have been the best
my favorite moment is still jon hamm reading frank o'hara at the end of the season 2 finale though
Its hard to decide, with so many moments per episode, and so many episodes total. To say that one mad men moment is the best is like saying that the other mad men moments arent as good.
Prospero posted:Ironicwarcriminal posted:
Game of Thrones glories in a depoliticized world and if you can't handle it it's a failure of your imagination
huh? its precisely too "political"
No it isn’t, it’s bold and the beautiful with swords and robes. There’s no real exposition of the role of the subservient masses or armies, it’s just the 1% being snarky to each other.
EmanuelaOrlandi posted:No, the best show on TV is Justified but everyone is too prejudiced and ignorant of the Southern Man's Struggle to appreciate it
this but NASCAR
tpaine posted:roight. toime to wootch gehls. *iwc throws himself down on his couch, unaware that a puff adder has entered his home and decided to make the warm, dark area its home*
I found a funnelweb just under my mailbox yesterday
Australian funnel-webs are one of the three most dangerous spiders in the world and are regarded by some to be the most dangerous.
Also i read this story and thought of you T
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2154283/Cats-away-Artist-turns-dead-pet-flying-helicopter-killed-car.html