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andrewducker

Interesting Links for 30-04-2016

Apr 30, 2016 12:00

53 Things That Would Be Different If "Game Of Thrones" Were Set In Glasgow (tags: gameofthrones glasgow scotland funny ) Glow-In-The-Dark Sharks Looks Like Vorlon Spaceships (tags: sharks light viaSwampers ) The Sound Of Crushing Silence: A Death-Metal Band Covers John Cage's '4'33"' (tags: music HeavyMetal video sound silence art ) An ( Read more... )

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octopoid_horror April 30 2016, 11:45:41 UTC

I thought something happened with Westworld that didn't bode well? Didn't it get canned or something then hastily brought back before it had even been piloted?

HBO had better make the Darren Aronofsky adaptation of the Maddaddam trilogy, that's all I'm saying!

andrewducker April 30 2016, 11:54:39 UTC

Yeah, but lots of things don't bode well in advance - the pilot for GoT was apparently terrible, but they rewrote it, swapped out half of the cast, and apparently it now gets quite good reviews.

octopoid_horror April 30 2016, 12:00:54 UTC

I don't really know much about GoT - not my kind of thing.

Personally, I prefer limited series to open ended things these days for the most part, but I understand why networks obviously want a popular series that they can keep going with as long as they get ratings.

andrewducker April 30 2016, 12:05:10 UTC

For drama I thoroughly agree with you. Either the overall length should be timeboxed or each season should be its own story (the way that Buffy did it).

I'd be a lot less interested in GoT if it didn't have a pre-defined end-point (24 episodes to go, apparently)

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gonzo21 April 30 2016, 12:03:19 UTC

The article on anti-semitic thought on the left rather needed to make the point more strongly that the right is even more racist but gets away with it.

octopoid_horror April 30 2016, 12:08:21 UTC

Racism, sexism and classism (is that actually a word) are far more culturally acceptable though.

gonzo21 April 30 2016, 12:21:37 UTC

Yep. I mean. We do now live in a world where Zach Goldsmith and the BREXIT mob were able to discount the opinion of the President of the United States because he's an uppity black man from Africa. And not the slightest whiff of a fuss about it in the papers.

kalimac April 30 2016, 12:49:15 UTC

My personal pole of inaccessibility lies in the Glasgow/Game of Thrones article, since I'm unfamiliar with both.

andrewducker May 1 2016, 14:42:17 UTC

They both have their plus points.

danieldwilliam April 30 2016, 13:46:34 UTC

I've been not far from the Australian Pole of Inaccessibility.

It's not far from Ularu.

danieldwilliam April 30 2016, 13:49:48 UTC

The Captain likes the sharks.

andrewducker May 1 2016, 14:42:34 UTC

I am glad!