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posted by [identity profile] stunt-muppet.livejournal.com at 07:46pm on 04/07/2011
Well, hey, if you don't want to devote a whole hour and a half to watching it, there's always the thirty-second version re-enacted by cartoon bunnies (http://angryalien.com/0905/highlanderbuns.asp). Condensed for your convenience!

That's one of the reasons I'm sort of reluctant to watch the stuff on HBO or Starz - not that I particularly dislike sex scenes, but I'm so used to them being elided or implied that when they're actually in the show they just feel sort of...there. Like they're just there so the show can be on HBO and don't actually have any reason to exist.

Though what I find most amusing about the Gratuitous Eighties Nipple is that it's always in silhouette, even when there's some lighting in the scene. It makes it more tasteful or something, I guess.
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posted by [identity profile] kayliemalinza.livejournal.com at 09:39pm on 05/07/2011
Like they're just there so the show can be on HBO and don't actually have any reason to exist.

It depends on the show? Rome, iirc, was pretty good about having the sex scenes be important for character development and storytelling. The Wire had good reasons, too, but then the scenes go on for a few minutes too long. And the Season 2 (3?) finale was four or five trysts intercut. It went on for like twenty minutes. Sooo awkwaaaaard. I don't think it was necessary for character development that I know precisely what Lt. Daniels' preferred rhythm is. And of course I'm watching the series with my brother, so it's super awkward.



The silhouette thing is probably because of ratings regulations? Like, the ~shadow of a nipple is easy R territory, but a full 3D view would be NC-17.
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