Posted on 03/07/2015 12:25:07 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
You did not really mean to compare that pile of crap to Shakespeare did you?
“Why read MacBeth?”
Because Shakespeare’s play foretells the ruin of the evil doer - and it happens.
“Black Sails on Starz had to have a homo angle—and this show is about 1700s pirates!”
Well, actually:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0814712363/thebookofzines
Since Christians will not fight this type of behavior is what they get. We need a St. Bernard of Clairvaux and we have the attitude of a St. Francis of Assisi. Sometimes men must fight for what they hold dear.
I think a similar fate awaits Frank and his wife. The most poetic ending would have them turning on each other.
-— You did not really mean to compare that pile of crap to Shakespeare did you? -—
Absolutely. The writing is excellent, and it’s the best portrayal of evil that I can think of since Dostoevsky or Shakespeare.
I watched the first two seasons. I thought it jumped the shark when he murdered someone himself. But at least it’s not another Democrats=good/Republicans=bad show. They’re all corrupt and venal, just like real life, but the main villain is a Democrat.
Why does anyone even watch this drivel anyhow?
Get rid of cable.
“I think a similar fate awaits Frank and his wife. The most poetic ending would have them turning on each other.”
Probably, but I think it is still different. We know Macbeth is doomed. He is not an anti-hero so much as a classically deluded weak man who destroys himself by doing something he knows is wrong. I think many modern works have us instead cheer for the anti-hero and get us to hope or almost hope they get away with it. That’s what I thought with the original. We wanted him to get away with it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Cards_(UK_TV_series)
Ian Richardson insisted his character had to be destroyed in the final series so that evil would not win. (But in a way it does because he is assassinated - as arranged by his wife - to protect his reputation and their retirement fund).
Standards for excellence are not what they once were.
“The writing is excellent, and it’s the best portrayal of evil that I can think of since Dostoevsky or Shakespeare.”
Maybe, but try Chigurh from McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men or even - for sheer brilliance in describing the mind of a hellbent psycho after power - the Broken Empire Trilogy, starting with Prince of Thorns, by Mark Lawrence. It’s just a fantasy novel, but the writing about the main character’s inner mind are fascinating and shocking.
Democrat Senator spitting in the face of God?
So House of Cards is nonfiction?
If you don’t watch the show - SPOILER ALERT - they do indeed turn on each other at the end of season 3. Season 4 will be all about the war between the Underwoods.
Final scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Goqw0fDMbUg
“You can bet that faggot Spacey enjoyed doing that.”
Repeating popular rumors makes it fact, for you?
Understand your point, but it’s not a cable show, it’s a Netflix elusive show.
Waiting for some TV character to spit on a Koran... still waiting.
Underwood was directly responsible for the murders of two individuals and abetted the murder of a third, yet it’s spitting on the Christ on the cross statue that crosses the line?
I’d be surprised if there are ‘any’ shows nowadays not written by gays. Everything has that kind of self-consciously bitchy/sarcastic/detached-irony tone to it, in terms of dialogue and performances. I find it all rather insufferable, in both its immaturity and unmanliness. And it’s one of the reasons I vastly prefer vintage fare.
This is an atheist site trolling for hits.
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