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The Official Television Thread
RE: Otter's Official Television Thread
(October 15, 2018 at 12:01 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote:
(October 15, 2018 at 10:39 am)Clueless Morgan Wrote: A different kind of brutal:



For the most part I can watch cancer story lines - they're sufficiently fake that I don't relate too closely with them.

Ah. Imagine that, someone whose favourite film is A Clockwork Orange and is on the autism spectrum greatly overestimates how desensitized other people are to on-screen violence.

If I am remembering that scene correctly (and I may not be) I would rank it as in my top 3 most disturbing/hard to watch things I've seen in TV or film.

Quote:So I take it you thought Walter White's battle with cancer wasn't realistic. Or sufficiently on the sidelines that it wasn't too hard to watch. Or that operations weren't a part of the treatment, if I recall.

Not realistic at all. I'll put it in spoiler tags in case you don't want the conceit of the show ruined Tongue



tl;dr
Watching Breaking Bad after having cancer is probably like working in the medical field and watching medical dramas: soooooooo faaaaaaake!
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Finally Watched Supernatural season 14 episode 1
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Watching The 4400 at the moment.

Meh.

Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:

"You did WHAT?  With WHO?  WHERE???"
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(October 15, 2018 at 9:20 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: Watching The 4400 at the moment.

Meh.

Yeah, I tried but really couldn't get into that one.

Going to start on the newest season of AHS.
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Season eleven of Doctor Who: off to a great start.
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I'm the weirdo in my friend group because I don't watch Doctor Who.

Ironic, eh?

Going to find Whitney and teenage kid's salsa from DWTS last night then might check out DWTS Juniors tonight.
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(October 15, 2018 at 12:38 pm)Clueless Morgan Wrote: If I am remembering that scene correctly (and I may not be) I would rank it as in my top 3 most disturbing/hard to watch things I've seen in TV or film.

I suppose you haven't seen The Girl Next Door (the 2007 horror film, not the Elisha Cuthbert comedy), Salo (aka: Eat Shit and Die: The Motion Picture), A Serbian Film, Men Behind the Sun, Cannibal Holocaust, Human Centipede, Where the Dead go to Die, or Antichrist. After these films, a simple rape scene doesn't even register as a possibility of making the top 10. Top 40 maybe, but not Top 10.
Comparing the Universal Oneness of All Life to Yo Mama since 2010.

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(October 16, 2018 at 11:20 am)Rev. Rye Wrote: I suppose you haven't seen The Girl Next Door[ (the 2007 horror film, not the Elisha Cuthbert comedy), Salo (aka: Eat Shit and Die: The Motion Picture), A Serbian Film, Men Behind the Sun, Cannibal Holocaust, Human Centipede, Where the Dead go to Die, or Antichrist. After these films, a simple rape scene doesn't even register as a possibility of making the top 10. Top 40 maybe, but not Top 10.

Nope.

I will always find rape scenes disturbing because I can very easily picture myself in those situations.
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For what it’s worth, Girl Next Door and Men Behind the Sun were based (rather closely) on actual events.
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Checking out the new Charmed.

Quote:Follows the lives of three sisters who, after the tragic death of their mother, discover they are powerful witches.
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