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Nearly Sane

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Carnival Row
« on: September 01, 2019, 04:39:30 PM »
Just started watching this today. Very well done but perhaps the politics is a bit heavy.



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Re: Carnival Row
« Reply #1 on: September 01, 2019, 10:07:01 PM »
The characters' names are even sillier than those of 'Game of Thrones', and the plot sounds pretty daft, as well.
"That bloke over there, out of Ultravox, is really childish."
"Him? Midge Ure?"
"Yes, very."

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Re: Carnival Row
« Reply #2 on: September 01, 2019, 10:22:33 PM »
Take it you hate Dickens then.

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Re: Carnival Row
« Reply #3 on: September 02, 2019, 08:44:45 AM »
Take it you hate Dickens then.
No, I love Dickens, but his names are amusing, whereas GoT names, and these, are just tiresome.
"That bloke over there, out of Ultravox, is really childish."
"Him? Midge Ure?"
"Yes, very."

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Re: Carnival Row
« Reply #4 on: September 02, 2019, 08:54:09 AM »
No, I love Dickens, but his names are amusing, whereas GoT names, and these, are just tiresome.
Surely the point as in any fantasy genre is that the names have to be 'odd' to mark it as fantasy? See Tolkien for example.