This thread is now an A Dance With Dragons Spoiler thread.

[Suu]

I also don't have a TV, and I'm missing the Borgias, which, IMO, is far superior, because real life is better than fantasy. Plus, you just can't write fiction like the shit that happens in history, it's too weird.

I hope they're building up to something, because right now, it's kind of dull.  Plus, there's no nudity.


LMNO
-Thinks Spartacus should be where the bar is set; for fuck's sake, even Mildred Pierce has Evan Rachel Wood doing a full frontal.

Spartacus is brilliant, but the costumes are...well, Hollywood.

The Tudors made me nauseous.

The Borgias as from what Showtime is going by is written from the account that Machiavelli wrote about them, which is nastily biased in favor of the Medicis. Plus, the Borgias were also not Italian, they were a Catalan family that came in and gained power rapidly, so they were already not liked.

[LMNO]

Yeah, they've gone over the "Not Italian" thing.  It's just not... engaging, or something.  I'd also like to see Jeremy Irons camp it up a bit more. 

[Suu]

It's coming.

The man was known and noted for his very public fornication and illegitimate children.

Oh, and before you all get disappointed, that is NOT the Lucretia with the poison ring. That is a later grandchild of Rodrigo. So when the entire series goes and she doesn't poison anyone, don't bitch.

...However, if she DOES poison someone, I'mma gonna rain sulfur on Hollywood.

[Cinderflame KSC]

Better written than Twilight, darker and grittier than Harry Potter.  But it's still YA material-- I read it at the gym, so I don't have to pay full attention to it like I do to the Overcoming Bias/Less Wrong sequences.

I spilled a box of Alpha-Bits cereal, and the result was better written than Twilight...

[Telarus]

Caught Game of Thrones last night. Pretty damn good, for an opening.

[Laughin Jude]

Let the memes begin.

[Phox]

I also don't have a TV, and I'm missing the Borgias, which, IMO, is far superior, because real life is better than fantasy. Plus, you just can't write fiction like the shit that happens in history, it's too weird.

I hope they're building up to something, because right now, it's kind of dull.  Plus, there's no nudity.


LMNO
-Thinks Spartacus should be where the bar is set; for fuck's sake, even Mildred Pierce has Evan Rachel Wood doing a full frontal.

I see your Spartacus and raise you a Caligula. 

Phox agrees. Hardcore orgy scene or GTFO.

[Laughin Jude]

You know, I've been meaning to watch Caligula for the longest time. It sounds like it might be right up my alley if I fast-forward through all the talky bits.

[LMNO]

To be honest, it's not dramatic enough to be a good art film, not smutty enough to be a good porno, and not archly self-aware enough to be good camp.  It sort of falls somewhere in the middle, and goes entirely flaccid by the end.

[Suu]

Reading a biography of Caligula is smuttier.

[Phox]

To be honest, it's not dramatic enough to be a good art film, not smutty enough to be a good porno, and not archly self-aware enough to be good camp.  It sort of falls somewhere in the middle, and goes entirely flaccid by the end.

Is true. But everything needs an orgy scene.

[LMNO]

Yeah, that's exactly what I thought was missing in Toy Story 3.

[Suu]

[Luna]

Yeah, that's exactly what I thought was missing in Toy Story 3.

You're a bad, bad man, and will come to an evil end.

Knew I liked you.   

[Phox]

Yeah, that's exactly what I thought was missing in Toy Story 3.