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Rome
Aug 30, 2005 12:17:43 GMT -5
Post by RepairmanJack on Aug 30, 2005 12:17:43 GMT -5
So, has anyone else watched the new HBO series Rome? SG and I watched it this past Sunday night. I enjoyed it, but SG thought the ABC series Empire was a little better. I think it is too soon to judge the comparisons yet. The first episode was a little slow while all the characters and basic plot was introduced. I think it will really start picking up in the next episode. This is the most expensive series ever made so it better At the very least it has the advantage of being on cable so there is more blood and nudity
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Rome
Sept 6, 2005 11:04:33 GMT -5
Post by Shutter Girl on Sept 6, 2005 11:04:33 GMT -5
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Rome
Sept 6, 2005 22:37:10 GMT -5
Post by RepairmanJack on Sept 6, 2005 22:37:10 GMT -5
Tonight's episode on the history channel was about Roman vices. It was interesting to say the least. There was one very disturbing thing about it though. At the beginning and at the end of each round of commercial breaks there was a warning about disturbing and/or explict images of sexuality. The images in question were frescos from Pompei. The narrator kept commenting on how shocking these images were when they were discovered. Not that anyone watching the special would have been able to see though. The history channel decided that they were too shocking apparently and blurred the images to the point that they were unrecognizable! What is the point of giving the warnings to the potential audience and bothering to show the images if it is impossible to see them Why is our country so hung up over sex? Showing violence is ok, but to show a sexual image from almost 2000 years ago is so wrong that we have to blur the image? I cannot understand where this idea of sex is so bad that we cannot talk about it or heaven forbid see it, but to kill and maim is perfectly exceptable for the masses to view. How did we get to be so screwed up
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Rome
Sept 7, 2005 9:03:43 GMT -5
Post by Shutter Girl on Sept 7, 2005 9:03:43 GMT -5
What's most disturbing about it is that those frescos are art and were originally designed to be art. IOW, blurring out the images is censorship in action! You could sort of tell what was going on in the frescos and basically it was various sexual positions and sometimes homoeroticism. To be honest, I've seen far more graphic images in Japanese and Hindu art, pieces which have been shown in their full view on the History Channel in their History of Sex series. Really, if they're going to blot them out then why show them at all? I think I'll write them an email, their actions from the point of view of an historian and art afficianado are appalling. Yeah, what is it with America's hang ups about sex and nudity in general? It's our bodies for Pete's sake, we all have them!
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Rome
Sept 8, 2005 18:33:32 GMT -5
Post by poodledoo on Sept 8, 2005 18:33:32 GMT -5
Our society is devolving. I don't know who sponsers the so called History Channel (maybe it should be the Altered History Channel) but emails to the sponsers might wake them up.
I've boycotted TV almost totally in the past 3 months. Yes, in the US, violence is fine, sex is evil, corruption is the rule and the masses happily graze along. I don't want to be too negative but our country is decaying on many, many levels. I would move (really) but I have no real friends outside the US. Maybe I should try to marry a Canadian?
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Rome
Sept 8, 2005 18:37:41 GMT -5
Post by poodledoo on Sept 8, 2005 18:37:41 GMT -5
PS: It's so funny that the banner adds are trying to sell us Roman coins! I hope their aren't any nudes on them! We could sue!
I'm going to add some words to see if the adbot will bite: swollen gonads, aching anus, throbbing mammaries, crusty eyeballs, organic jockstrap, natural penis, shantilly lace, impotent giant, sleep deprived nymphomaniac, lonely octogenarian seeks hot septogenarian.
Now lets see what kind of ads we get! Feel free to help... ;-)
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Sept 9, 2005 9:46:59 GMT -5
Post by Shutter Girl on Sept 9, 2005 9:46:59 GMT -5
LOL!! I took the censor button off a long time ago, aren't you glad? ;D BTW Poodle, I happen to know a Canadian lassie who would be happy to marry you. She's a little high maintenance, though --- spends all her dough traveling around the world to see an old fart sporting a doo rag. Octogenarians intermarrying, what do they do when the lights go out?
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Jzero
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Rome
Sept 17, 2005 10:09:06 GMT -5
Post by Jzero on Sept 17, 2005 10:09:06 GMT -5
Kram (Poodleeye) wrote: "I've boycotted TV almost totally in the past 3 months. Yes, in the US, violence is fine, sex is evil, corruption is the rule and the masses happily graze along. I don't want to be too negative but our country is decaying on many, many levels. I would move (really) but I have no real friends outside the US. Maybe I should try to marry a Canadian?" <unquote>
I am your friend Kram, and you are welcome to join me here in Mauritania any time you please...
Jzero
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