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Boromir's guess the famous game #219 - Annie Edson Taylor - nyctc7 wins
Boromir's guess the famous game #217 - Virginia Woolf - hownos was not afraid of her
Boromir's guess the famous game #214 - Fictional Homecoming Queen, Laura Palmer - hownos is the winner
Boromir's guess the famous game #211 -- Joan of Arc -- Won by LauraGrace
Boromir's guess the famous game #207 -- Bjork -- Won by hownos
Boromir's guess the famous game #203 -- 'Twas Christina Ricci -- Won by LauraGrace
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While certainly not without its faults, I have always preferred Moffat's version of Doctor Who to RTD's.
Last week, I said I was becoming increasingly concerned with Disneyfication, but -- to a large extent -- it's probably just Russell being given full rein. Remembering back to farting aliens, cutesy fat monsters, burping bins, Rose and The Doctor skipping around hand in hand, etc, etc, from his first tenure, I think it's just that Disney and RTD are a good match.
Anyway, yes, comfortably my favourite so far... although in much the same way RTD's episodes are familiarly RTD, with callbacks to previous RTD episodes, this was very Moffat-y with callbacks to Moffat episodes.
I hope we're going to get some new writers in the mix. I like when the show moves forward more than I like self-regarding nostalgia...
But, yeah, not going to be churlish: it was a good episode.
According to Wikipedia, Bridgerton begins in 1813.
Trading in slaves was prohibited throughout the British Empire by Act of Parliament in 1807.
Somerset v Stewart, an important case that found there was no legal basis -- and never had been a legal basis -- for slavery in the British Isles themselves, was heard in 1772. Indeed, the Normans banned the slave trade in England when they arrived in 1066. Slavery was never legal in England itself.
The answer to your question is therefore: slavery was hidden out of the way from the world of Bridgerton, overseas in the colonies and in the process of being phased out -- although it was not until 1833 that owning slaves in the British colonies was legislated against.
The Irishman was a Netflix production. And Killers of the Flower Moon was funded by Apple. No coincidence, that. These streaming companies certainly won't put any pressure on big name directors to reduce runtimes. They'd have probably preferred both these projects to be eight hour miniseries.
This is also the main reason for the rise of 'prestige TV' in the streaming era. The streaming services want our eyeballs for longer, so they pour more resources into television shows.
So -- yeah -- films tend to be longer than they need to be these days because the people involved in making them aren't as concerned as they used to be about trimming them and in some cases actively want them to be longer.
I think there are two reasons:
Reason number 1 -- for theatrically released films, I think producers have decided the 'more bang for your buck' that audiences require to leave the comfort of their homes means <i>more</i> of everything, including minutes. 'Will they show up for a tight 90 to 100 minutes any more? Give them 140.'
Reason number 2 is the main one though -- streaming services want your eyeballs for as long as possible. This is also why things that might once have been films are now expanded into multi-episode limited series that could benefit from losing a couple of instalments
And you imagine this to be relevant in some way because...?
He's just openly declared himself a fascist. Which either means he's a fascist. Or he thinks it's edgy to pretend to be a fascist online. Either way, probably not worth bothering with.
Ah, right, you're one of those cunts.
Good economic brain in her head; I don't think she's wrong.
I've encountered him before. I don't think he even watches the show. I -- and others -- have tried to explain to him that overnights are not that important in 2024, that ratings are not as important to a BBC show as they would be to one on commercial television, and that the show -- being British -- has different cultural values to the ones he favours as a conservative American. It all just bounces off him.
He's just one of those tiresome people who takes any and every opportunity to show off his 'anti-woke' credentials online. Context doesn't concern him. <i>Knowing</i> things doesn't concern him.
When you're king of the world?
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