TV Thread - beware, [expletive] can get spoilery

[Vidor]

Did anyone else (who hadn't already read the books) think that Joffrey was gonna make the one hooker shove that thing up the other hookers butt? I was cringing until she just whacked her in the ass with it.

My girlfriend was alarmed to find that I thought that is what was gonna happen. She called me a weird pervert and wouldn't speak to me the rest of the night.

I thought the same thing, but not up the butt...

Whew ok. Glad I wasn't the only pervert watching the other night.

We're all scarred for life by "Requiem for a Dream".

[haltz]

Usually I like porn without a plot, just gets in the way. But they've really made it work with Game of Thrones.

[docellis]

"We shall make our way the only way we know how, though it might be a bit more than the… law… would allow." —Games of Hazzard

"The Hogg seeks two brothers: one dark, one fair! Turn them over and your precious Cooter might live to drink again!" —Games of Hazzard

[robbotis]

Did anyone else (who hadn't already read the books) think that Joffrey was gonna make the one hooker shove that thing up the other hookers butt? I was cringing until she just whacked her in the ass with it.

My girlfriend was alarmed to find that I thought that is what was gonna happen. She called me a weird pervert and wouldn't speak to me the rest of the night.

I thought the same thing, but not up the butt...

Whew ok. Glad I wasn't the only pervert watching the other night.

We're all scarred for life by "Requiem for a Dream".

Freakin' Requiem...
Haunting. Will never watch again.
Somehow, I loved and wasn't nearly as disturbed by Black Swan.

[JL21]

Usually I like porn without a plot, just gets in the way. But they've really made it work with Game of Thrones.

Along those lines...

NSFW, I guess, unless vector art infographic boobs are cool where you work:

[SHOW]

[Maclowery]

Way out of date, but I just started re-watching the first season of Spartacus, in anticipation of pirating the newest one.

I remembered liking it the first time, but the second time through has been great. Only in a different way - I can't stop laughing at it. Now that I know how corny it is, and am expecting each line, it continues to amaze me with its absurd over-the-topiness. What an awesome freakin' show.

[Swirls]

Did anyone else (who hadn't already read the books) think that Joffrey was gonna make the one hooker shove that thing up the other hookers butt? I was cringing until she just whacked her in the ass with it.

My girlfriend was alarmed to find that I thought that is what was gonna happen. She called me a weird pervert and wouldn't speak to me the rest of the night.

I thought the same thing, but not up the butt...

Whew ok. Glad I wasn't the only pervert watching the other night.

Watching that episode made me realize even more how much of a hack Terry Goodkind is as an author. I didn't realize he also stole the whole "stick a rat in a bucket, attach the bucket to their chest, and heat the bucket with fire so the rat will eat through their skin and muscle" method of torture from the ASOIAF book series. Based on how much that [expletive] godawful author loved his weird pervert sex and torture scenes (I only made it through the first 5-6 books, mostly because my friends thought he was the best author ever and kept forcing me to read them), I had (wrongly) assumed he thought of the rat thing by himself. Obviously not. There's no telling how many more weirdo scenes there are in the later books that he also stole from GRR Martin.

[Maclowery]

Goodkind is absolutely the most mocked of any mainstream author of any genre I know of. He's an incomprehensible douche. Insists he's never read other fantasy, and that in fact his books are not fantasy at all. It's depressing that his stunningly terrible books became TV shows at all, but at least they're equally stunningly bad, while everyone and their aunt loves Game of Throens.

[Vidor]

Did anyone else (who hadn't already read the books) think that Joffrey was gonna make the one hooker shove that thing up the other hookers butt?

Now that I've finally watched that episode--isn't that what happened?

Also, doesn't that business with the rats go back to "1984"?

[Vidor]

In other TV news--

1. "Veep", that HBO show with Julia Louis-Dreyfus as VPOTUS, is hilarious.

2. For people who are curious about what shows like "Rome" and "Spartacus" are ripping off, the original "I, Claudius" is running on PBS. Can't say exactly where it's on in your market but on mine it's airing Saturday night. There was a new DVD release recently so this must be tied to that.