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HH notes Thomas' recent team-up with Ant Man

Subj: I have to applaud the "Thomas" answer. Spot-on.
Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2016 at 01:06:25 pm EST (Viewed 555 times)
Reply Subj: The world of Thomas the Tank Engine? Or the Little Train Who Can? The Cannonball Express?
Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2016 at 06:12:57 pm EST (Viewed 3 times)



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    Considering that the HBO show is full of sex, violence and nudity, it's likely considered inappropriate for their age. They have to wait for their caphan histories to get their fill of that.


    With Griff's ability to tear through the internet ignoring all firewalls?


Leave a parent his comfortable charade.


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    I was put off by the pre-publicity stories about casting calls for actors who wouldn't mind playing sex furniture and performing various simulated erotic acts, and by some of the "we'll be even raunchier than Game of Thrones"-type marketing that led me to conclude it was all going to be rather juvenile and exploitative.


I'm not aware of those stories myself, but the end product doesn't match that impression, at least for me. Most of the nudity was of the non-sexual variety... quite likely still there for some titillation and a general "Hey, look what we can do on cable!" kind of thing, but still. Much of it reminded me of life-drawing classes, as the robots were completely unclothed when being examined or worked on by technicians, simply sitting in chairs or standing like mannequins... The in-story justification being that clothing them out of a respect for modesty played into dangerous anthropomorphic thoughts in the people that worked on them.

That said, there are still some sex scenes scattered about as well... but I wouldn't say they reached a "raunchier than Game of Thrones" bar... even if the marketing people might have liked them to attempt it.


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    I've heard enough positive things now that I'll probably give it a try if it ever comes to some platform I can legally access.


I think that it's well worth the watch, but again... it's focused on themes I tend to like.




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