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What was the last TV show you watched?

Worf

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I keep watching "The Purple Wedding", can't get enough of that boy's deatch. One of the coolest things about Game of Thrones is how, and rightly so considering their lack of technology, "information deprived" everyone is. Unlike today... people don't know that family members have died or other momentous events until months after they take place. Theyon Greyjoy doesn't hear of Robb's death until months after it has occured. There seem to be no "Town Criers' in the World of Westeros, no newspapers, although there are books, no internet no nightly news... just Ravens, and those usually go to the capital and other great houses. Instantaneous communication is something we truly take for granted.

We cannot imagine battles taking place AFTER peace treaties have been signed, but this happened back then.. one of the most famous being the British defeat at the hands of Andy Jackson at New Orleans AFTER the War of 1812 had concluded. But in GoT if you're not important enough to rate a raven... you just have no clue what's going on around you till the hoardes appear over the next hill and by then it's too late.

Worf
 
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...We cannot imagine battles taking place AFTER peace treaties have been signed, but this happened back then...
This reminds me of Hiroo Onoda, an Imperial Japanese Army intelligence officer who was sent to Lubang Island in the Philippines in December of 1944 under orders to "hamper enemy attacks" on the island. He refused to surrender until March of 1974 when he was ordered to do so in person by his former commanding officer, because he believed all previous attempts to inform him that the war had ended were not genuine.
 
This reminds me of Hiroo Onoda, an Imperial Japanese Army intelligence officer who was sent to Lubang Island in the Philippines in December of 1944 under orders to "hamper enemy attacks" on the island. He refused to surrender until March of 1974 when he was ordered to do so in person by his former commanding officer, because he believed all previous attempts to inform him that the war had ended were not genuine.
He also spent the later portion of his life doing much charity in that part of the world too.
 

Stearmen

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Sigh... one day... you and I have to have a looooooong talk! How do you watch that stuff!!!????

Worf

I made the mistake of watching a little bit of one episode a while back. It is so 70s, and the acting. Were we really that easy to entertain back then?
 

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