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Post by amyghost on Oct 2, 2018 11:52:57 GMT
Lord no, not even close. Have you ever read Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village by Ronald Blythe? it gives the real skinny on 'idyllic' rural English life during the Downton period, and it's sobering and at times actually horrifying. If you read this and then try to watch that series, you'll find yourself alternately gagging and bursting into laughter at how untrue to life it is. www.nyrb.com/products/akenfield_portrait_of_an_english_village No. I will look into it. I did see a Manor House. The reality PBS show from a couple of years ago with Derek Jacoby narrating. That's a good show, and although it predates the Akenfield era (pre WWI, Edwardian) being set more at the latter years of the Victorian, it still gives a lot more accurate picture of the life and lot of a member of the servant class in that period than DA did. That show was largely romanticized tripe for the wanna-be upper classes who like to think the lower classes adore and revere them.
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Oct 2, 2018 21:40:35 GMT
Game of Thrones is schlock that tries to pass itself off as 'serious and important' drama, rooted in an historically accurate representation of the medieval world; it ain't--it's an excuse to watch many, many naked boobies joggling about during 'R' sex scenes, and lots of gratuitous bloodletting, and nothing more. You are of course free to think the show is crap but I have seen every episode of Game of Thrones and the amount of nudity and sex is no wear near as much as people claim. And the same goes for violence and gore. People who say that there is a lot of nudity and sex in Game of Thrones have probably not seen much of it.
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Post by amyghost on Oct 2, 2018 22:11:23 GMT
Game of Thrones is schlock that tries to pass itself off as 'serious and important' drama, rooted in an historically accurate representation of the medieval world; it ain't--it's an excuse to watch many, many naked boobies joggling about during 'R' sex scenes, and lots of gratuitous bloodletting, and nothing more. You are of course free to think the show is crap but I have seen every episode of Game of Thrones and the amount of nudity and sex is no wear near as much as people claim. And the same goes for violence and gore. People who say that there is a lot of nudity and sex in Game of Thrones have probably not seen much of it. Not a lot of nudity and sex in it as opposed to what? A porn film?
And the show thrives on gore and violence, it's interlarded into the storyline in such a way as to make it almost the raison d'etre of the plot. Rape. Torture (including sex torture). Massacres. Murder. Burning a child alive (among others). There isn't an episode that doesn't include at least one highly sadistic moment. And it's one potent reason, sad to say, for the show's success.
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