Re: Cinema Ratings

The Last Doctor wrote on 8/7/24 9:38 pm:

Daniel70 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:

solar penguin wrote on 8/7/24 7:21 pm:

The True loon totally tried not to look out from his own little world:
 

Today's episode of House of the Dragon was a very good episode.
The Turkish Detective was all good. No degenerate workery in
either of them.

 The Turkish Detective? A show where most of the characters are non-British Muslims? If they tried making Doctor Who like that you would be the first to complain about degenerate wokery!
 

And, Solar Penguin, did you notice The Turkish Detective show is, apparently, set in China?? Why else would they have called the series 'House of the Dragon'??
 Is Turkey trying to take over Chinese Culture or something?? Or Vice-Versa?? Something I would have thought Aggy would be all grumpy about .... or is he grumping down about that in another newsgroup??

 That’s two series Daniel.

Ah!! Silly me, accepting the way Aggy had written it ....
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Today's episode of House of the Dragon was a very good episode. The
Turkish Detective was all good.
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I just assumed Aggy was discussing different aspects of the one program. Silly Me!!
(and you know what they say happens when you "assume", don't you??)

House of the Dragon is a Game of Thrones prequel and stars (obWho)
Matt Smith. As for not being woke, they deliberately made one of the
key families black for added diversity (the Velaryons) which is
internally odd as they are close cousins to the (white) Targaryens.
 The Turkish Detective is an easy-watching cosy detective drama. Doubtless Aggie approves of its treatment of women, which is why he thinks it’s not woke - the undercurrent of showing how awfully women are regarded in Türkiye is probably something he’s missed because
its subtext and he barely understands text.
 He doesn’t understand what woke really means - and when woke awareness is pervasive he misses it completely because he thinks the show is approving of attitudes and behaviours that it’s actually highlighting as poor.
 

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Daniel