What are you watching?
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One of the greatest cinematic accomplishments of all time. I highly encourage everyone to watch. It is proof that God exists because men could not come up with such a thing without a lot of help. Oh wait, this is Danish.
Never mind.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nc...outube.com/watch?v=-ncwCETyQlk&has_verified=1
Never mind.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nc...outube.com/watch?v=-ncwCETyQlk&has_verified=1
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I think I'm going to try to start watching that..I think it's free on Amazon Prime.
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There are parts that stretch the limits of plausibility, and I almost lost interest between seasons 2 and 3, but it is overall a good show. It is interesting, they are very suspicious of American culture but have to play along to keep their cover, even going so far as to raise Americanized kids who have no idea what their parents really are.
This is the true story it is loosely based on:
http://theweek.com/articles/493105/illegals-russian-spies-living-america
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Timid character if that got him in such a state.
Me? I'd have probably driven around town with her stuck to the glass, a mild smile indicating the level of amusement smeared across my kisser.
I've never purported myself as being "normal".
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Question for Occam's Banana or other GoT book readers-
Is Arya going blind a legit punishment, or is this part of the initiation process? I am curious if taking the face, going out and killing on her own is something they are looking for in new recruits, because that's how she got involved with them in the first place. Her list of names.
Is Arya going blind a legit punishment, or is this part of the initiation process? I am curious if taking the face, going out and killing on her own is something they are looking for in new recruits, because that's how she got involved with them in the first place. Her list of names.
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It's both. On the one hand, they're looking for people who are willing and able to kill - and being able to attack and defend while blinded can be very useful in that regard. So that part of it is "initiation" or training. But on the other hand, they aren't interested in those who have personal or emotional motivations for killing - and since Arya stole the face in order to kill Meryn Trant for the sake of revenge (rather than as an act of devotion to the Faceless God), this was a serious breach. So that part of it is "punishment."
I'm curious as to whether they'll ever really make Arya "forget" herself (and thus become truly "faceless"). We're at the point now where the show has caught up with the books, so I don't have any "inside knowledge" about Arya's future. I don't recall how much the show has gone into the origin and history of the religion of the Faceless One (or even if it's gone into it at all), but there's a bit about it in the books (it started as a mercy cult in the slave mines of ancient Valyria).
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Banshee is over for good after tonight. This is what will likely be in it's place:
It is based on another Kirkman comic series:
Hopefully better than FTWD.
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It is like Rectify, but with demon possession and gore. The opening scene is even more whacked out than the opening scene in The Walking Dead.
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I'll have to check it out. I liked Rectify except for it's excrutiatingly slow pace.
