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Robbie Keane I am MALDING Joined: 30 Nov 2014 Location: Trumpton Status: Offline Points: 44659 |
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Maybe I just 'get' British shows more, but the Yanks throw out a polished turd and market it and you can't move for some idiot telling ya about his latest 'box-set', it is great marketing. Maybe I am being harsh but a lot of it is bad television that wouldn't have got past a pilot 20 years ago.
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Paulie
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Bang on. Telly back in the day was full of quality shows such as Manimal and Hardcastle and McCormack. |
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Robbie Keane I am MALDING Joined: 30 Nov 2014 Location: Trumpton Status: Offline Points: 44659 |
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Great use of 'shows' I have never even heard of deliberately undermine a point. They were probably all still less embarrassing than Homeland though!
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McG
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What's embarrassing about precious Homeland?
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Robbie Keane I am MALDING Joined: 30 Nov 2014 Location: Trumpton Status: Offline Points: 44659 |
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All of it! The ridiculous premise, the terrible acting, the overuse of cliché and, worst of all, the script! assume the writers are taking the piss but it would seem not. If it is meant as a comedy I would say it was genius, apparently it isn't though! I think it has also been deliberately developed as a piece of cultural imperialism.
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Stretchryan
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Manimal was so bad it was good back in the day.
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I would absolutely love to watch Brookside again, what a show.
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Robbie Keane I am MALDING Joined: 30 Nov 2014 Location: Trumpton Status: Offline Points: 44659 |
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I had to look it up on Google there! At least it wasn't a piece of America (f**k yeah!) propoganda for the 21st century. Just a bit of harmless fun,I doubt I will watch that 'box-set' either though!
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Paulie
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We had Rocky 4 for our american propaganda. And the soundtrack! "Two worlds collide there's no surrender.......is it east versus west or man against man". Chills. That's all i'm saying. |
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Robbie Keane I am MALDING Joined: 30 Nov 2014 Location: Trumpton Status: Offline Points: 44659 |
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There has always been propaganda, same as there as always been sh*te tv, the difference between previous sh*te tv and modern is that the modern 'box-sets' are marketing themselves as brilliant, clever and innovative when they are every bit as bad as what went before. Rocky was sh*te, and I have never watched a full one, but it was honest about being propaganda and didn't take itself seriously. Nobody sat next to you in the pub to tell how great he is because he watched a Rocky film, compare that with 'Homeland'.
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Paulie
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I don't really get your last sentence. That hardly happens? For what it's worth I watch homeland and enjoy it very much. I'm very aware though that it's a fictional tv show and i certainly don't take it too seriously or allow it to shape my views on anything. It's the same amongst my friends. I've certainly never heard any of them trying to big themselves up because they watch whatever tv show. Maybe it's because I'm a little older (40's). |
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Robbie Keane I am MALDING Joined: 30 Nov 2014 Location: Trumpton Status: Offline Points: 44659 |
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It very much does and I am in my 30s, and the reason I chose that pub was to avoid that sh*te, at least they know for future reference. It is certainly very common on other boards I am too. The propaganda aspect has been well discussed online too, both in the US where it is seen as liberal propaganda and by those elsewhere for its ridiculous and dangerous view of how US foreign policy needs to be dealt with and Islamophobia. Your friends might be different as you chose them, I personally gave mine up for acquaintances, but there is certainly a lot of 'box-set bores' out there.
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Paulie
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To be fair, it's very easy to argue that almost any given show is trying to push whatever agenda by picking out moments that suit the argument that's being put forward. I'm not saying that it's not the case with Homeland. It's just more of a general point. I suppose I don't think too deeply about it as I mentally just put this stuff under the heading "entertainment". |
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Robbie Keane I am MALDING Joined: 30 Nov 2014 Location: Trumpton Status: Offline Points: 44659 |
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Which would be exactly the argument against, I am not going into it now and don't want to drag a thread anymore off topic, but all good propaganda, like all good marketing, is subliminal. In this case I don't even think it is that, look where they bought the original from sure!
Anyway, enjoy it if ya want, whatever about it being propaganda it is bloody awful television.
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After years of not watching because it has dragons and fantasy stuff in it I finally gave Game Of Thrones a chance. 10/10 so far a long month of binge watching to come
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Fargo is back. Promising start
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