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Premium Cable: The Cursing Costs Extra

[NAFDA] A thread for the discussion of all original programming on HBO, Showtime, Starz and other premium channels.

This is NOT a general TV discussion thread.


Frankenbuddha - Jan 26, 2007 11:27:49 am PST #589 of 7329
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

I think the point is that instead of saying "half my friends have died from them," we can say "I know some people who've had them."

True that. If they're small enough, they just let them pass (painful as that may be). If they are threateningly large, they can break them up sonically. Why letting the small ones pass instead of breaking them up is prefered is beyond me, unless it's an insurance cost thing in these hellacious HMO times.


Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 26, 2007 11:38:04 am PST #590 of 7329
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

That's when I'd break out the VISA and engage in a little impulse buying. Having had urinary tract surgery (the first instance of which was unanesthetized), taking a pass on persistent pain of that sort would trump fiscal responsibility or waiting for the insurance company's say-so.


erikaj - Jan 26, 2007 11:40:50 am PST #591 of 7329
Always Anti-fascist!

Matt, it took a minute for me to breathe again after I read that. Damn, bunk, I'm sorry.


Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 26, 2007 11:43:47 am PST #592 of 7329
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

Eh, it was 33 years ago. But Connie's talk about her DH's pain scale conversation with his doctor made me think about how I'd rate various examples from my past. I'm not sure whether the above or getting my first tooth knocked out via an iron rebar to the jaw would be the blue ribbon winner.


erikaj - Jan 26, 2007 11:57:43 am PST #593 of 7329
Always Anti-fascist!

Also very painful. Not as likely to make me cross my legs and clench, though. McShane played the pain very well, I thought. Most actors don't look very real being pained...Hugh Laurie is awesome at it, incidentally.


Frankenbuddha - Jan 26, 2007 12:37:09 pm PST #594 of 7329
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Also very painful. Not as likely to make me cross my legs and clench, though. McShane played the pain very well, I thought. Most actors don't look very real being pained...Hugh Laurie is awesome at it, incidentally.

Of course, the fact that he was realistically made up to look like he'd been in a knock down drag out that took him over the balcony of the Gem helped a lot. His bloody eye has been grossing the everloving fuck out of me the last few episodes (about to watch 2.6 at this point).


erikaj - Jan 26, 2007 1:01:54 pm PST #595 of 7329
Always Anti-fascist!

That's disturbing all right. That's true...most American shows are unwilling to have people be...unpretty, in even the slightest way.


Sean K - Jan 26, 2007 2:17:59 pm PST #596 of 7329
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

This is why I love Deadwood SO MUCH! They seem to be most comfortable in places that are very uncomfortable for the viewer. Not even in a pain sense -- they frequently like to let us in on awkward conversations that make the viewer uncomfortable.

It's something I admire as an artist myself.


Glamcookie - Jan 27, 2007 9:25:35 am PST #597 of 7329
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister

Adding to the Rome love. I like me some dark!Vorenus.


Hayden - Jan 27, 2007 9:26:52 am PST #598 of 7329
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."

ita, once Bullock took the badge from Con and threw it down, Con never got it back (Nuttall said something about "leave it there, you son of a bitch"). Bullock took it up to Al instead.