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@thegerrardeight Big belief in the 90s and 2000s (when I was at school and learning about WWII) that we'd reached the end of history and there wasn't going to be another war, no campaigns of genocide, no racial prejudice, etc. So it was pinned down as "old German beliefs" and that was that.

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@thegerrardeight Fwiw I was also taught about the rise of Nazi Germany t school, but it was constantly served up with a side of "This only happened because they were German. This has never happened anywhere else and will never happen again because the Nazis were unique and also German".

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@LegoKingo Everything Adam McKay has done since 2014 except the Succession pilot.

[Emmy Potter @emmylanepotter]

To me, one of the best lessons we could learn from David Lynch is to stop demanding explanations of every piece of art from the artist who made it and instead let the art talk and decide what it means individually to you. What a richer way to experience the world.

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@thonlything FWWM will stay with me forever. That ending scene... Crushed and elated me all at once.

[Variety @Variety]

Director-writer David Lynch, who radicalized American film with with a dark, surrealistic artistic vision in films like “Blue Velvet” and “Mulholland Drive” and network television with “Twin Peaks,” has died. He was 78. https://t.co/T2GOao28ux

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@AdequateEmily Control?

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BoJack Horseman and Orange is the New Black spring to mind immediately.

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@FireAndBarks What has gone on with your TL lately

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@thonlything So watching people from abroad discover him for basically the first time is like watching our 90s and 2000s play out over the space of about a week. A very troubled guy but a great popstar who's finally healing.

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@thonlything As a Brit, it's been so much fun watching international folks get introduced to Robbie. The guy is so deeply woven into our national fabric that we've kinda lost the ability to look at him properly. He's just always there - we lost sight of the nuance years ago.

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@AmosMurphy_ 'I'll give you a bottle of Drambuie for a tenner if you pay and are out the shop in FIVE seconds.'

'Done... my good man. I shall invite you to the party.'

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@StevenMcinerney Wait, wasn't there a rumour about a month ago that Pep and his wife had split up? Was literally thinking about it today because nothing had come out. Apparently until now.

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@Macavit25431185 Really wouldn't surprise me if she has her hands round his throat at some point, as a nod to S1's finale. And it also wouldn't surprise me if God's Eye is reframed - not as Daemon riding valiantly to fight for Rhaenyra, but him being sent there by a queen who has LOST IT.

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@Macavit25431185 I'm hoping they use Daemon's visions to deepen this dynamic. Daemon has seen the future but has never been less certain of himself, while Rhaenyra only has half the picture while descending further into blind zealotry. I'm hoping for a total role reversal from S1.

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They interacted a whole bunch!

https://t.co/tHWL418ZuD

[MsLee🌷 (miyazaki’s LEGIT chosen prophet) @All_Lee24]

Not only is all the dialogue in the thread fake but like I’m losing it cause I don’t think these two ever actually interacted once. One interaction with Cersei and Jon would witness levels of bastardphobia that would make Catelyn seem like a loving mother

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might not be right*

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I've been saying this for years about the GOT/HOTD fandom. Absolutely zero curiosity. So consumed by their own headcanons that they refuse to even engage with the possibility that it might not be write. Wrote the words below in July 2020 and nothing has changed.

[largest rodent @capybaroness]

the hotd fandom, more than a lot of fandoms on here imo, has this thing where they’ll notice a detail like this and instead of thinking of it as a creative choice that might say something about these characters, they act like it’s a mistake or willful breaking of the rules of tv

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We *know* Rhaenyra is going to be queen for a time. We *know* her reign isn't going to go well. We *know* it's all going to end in tragedy and disgrace. We've read the book. But you will STILL get Rhae stans who will scream bloody murder when the show just... follows the book.

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And what makes it even worse with regards to HOTD is that the entire plot outline *already exists*, but when the show takes certain characters down paths *already determined* by a text that *already exists* you will STILL get the same tantrums and crying and dismissal.