Topics you would like to see a TV show cover?

Ooh and also a LOTR show about "The Silmarillion" would be awesome.

I don’t believe it’s historically accurate but would hope you’ve watched the x-rated Caligula. While other periods of human history may be interesting, even fascinating, but when you boil it down, can tv audiences relate to the setting? Or would they just be situation comedies with an expensive wardrobe budget?

Caligula is part of what I mean though by "an excuse to shoot a porno."

Well the point isn't to show characters like that who's experiences we can relate to but rather to show a completely different world from our own. I think a lot of people actually don't know how different the past really was. Have characters going through puberty at 18 for example, having other characters randomly die from tuberculosis, portraying feasts and festivals. I like watching historical battles and politics on screen too but I'd really like to watch something that shows all the cultural differences. The characters should be a product of their time and not characters created just to be relatable to a modern viewership.

Or I guess the fascinating thing would be to show why people came to the conclusions they did. Why did people think slavery was okay? Why were sexual norms so restrictive? Why was religion so important to a lot of people?

My dad has mentioned before that he actually dislikes almost all of the characters in game of thrones but still finds it interesting enough to want to watch. This tells me that maybe every show doesn't necessarily need relatable characters to be good.

"reality show like Jersey Shore but with TUSCL members, with each season set in a different city like Tijuana, Vegas, Atlanta etc"

Omg that would be hilarious.

I have not watched TV for four years.

A lot of people have pointed out when I come up with suggestions like the ones I have that TV has to cater to the lowest common denominator in order to get viewers and stuff like that but that's not actually true. What I find with "experimental" shows is that they tend to not really make it anywhere or they end up being one of the greatest successes of all time.

Death Note for example is considered one of the greatest animes created and one reason why its great is because it doesn't cater to the lowest common denominator. It is very intelligently written, explores human psychology, and has lots of plot twists. I think L is pretty likable, and Kira is a fascinating character although I wouldn't really call him "likable." A lot of shows that really obviously only appeal to the lowest common denominator end up being considered trash TV (sorry but Jersey Shore is a perfect example of trash TV).

Another example of a great show that doesn't cater to the lowest common denominator is Black Mirror. Black Mirror is designed to disturb you and to make you think. Its not created for the lowest common denominator at all.

I've watched good video documentaries and good youtube courses about Revolutionary War.

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And you know BBC had I Claudius, basically both of the Robert Graves novels treated together.

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One of these days I'd like to read more letters sent from the founders to each other. Letters that aren't necessarily war correspondents but rather talking of philosophical matters.

Obviously the Revolution and the Revolutionary War has been studied a lot by academics. What I meant though is the lack of screen time that's really been dedicated to it. The Patriot was a good movie but its pretty much the only major film on the Revolutionary War that I can think of.

I'd like to see a sitcom about a 130 lb, Loser Leaf smoking Millenial college-aged beta cuck who consistently gets shot down by beautiful college whores so he resorts to masturbating several times a day between paid dates with escorts.

speaking only for myself... I have not watched any series at all on TV. Shit. I’m still catching up on seinfeld episodes.

Game of Thrones I’ll watch some day to see what I’ve missed.

meanwhile...I’ll be down in Tijuana.

"I'd like to see a sitcom about a 130 lb, Loser Leaf smoking Millenial college-aged beta cuck who consistently gets shot down by beautiful college whores so he resorts to masturbating several times a day between paid dates with escorts."

I also think that would be a great show.

I’m looking forward to the final season of GOT

PBS recently aired an absolutely riveting documentary - Foot Ailments That Altered History: Bunions of the Third Reich!

We need more documentaries like that!

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I would like to see a tv show on strip clubs. A realistic one from the customer POV not the dancer like it always is.

There is one from a dancer POV? (Aside from the upcoming JLo one)

I think the last show I watched that had a SC in it involved the stripper getting murdered. It was from a vampire POV though. trueblood.fandom.com

— I mostly watch whatever with other people, and not that picky with it. I’m not big on TV, though anime is my favorite genre. I’d agree that a lord of the rings type of serious would be pretty great.

There was a series about Ancient Rome on HBO about 10 years ago. It was called Rome. The only strip club series I’ve seen was Topless Prophet, I think it was on showtime or Cinemax. Didn’t watch much of it, thought it was boring and stupid.

Lmao @Icey and NiceSpice and I would be pulling pranks on the house all the time and people would get frustrated with us.

We'd probably all get drunk before riding to HK on bikes so Juice would be falling off of his bike and we'd be struggling to get all of us to HK, but once we get there there would be hot girls ready to make everybody's day.

The VIP Room could be like the upstairs of the house, people try and section it off and then the trolls bust through anyway.

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In the TUSCL reality show we'd also be the ones watching anime until like 3:00 in the morning and annoying everybody else in the house who just wants to sleep.

I watch sports on TV. Shows, not so much. I used to watch the News on TV. But these days, that is like watching the National Inquirer on TV as it's all made up and exaggerated.

^ I noticed the same thing about news. I've found that Fox News is the only network that provides unbiased, objective reporting.

A show called ‘Beta Cuck Begone’ where they turn Soy Boy Beta Cucks into men.

My mom has watched Beauty and the Geek. I doubt that it would stop anybody from being a beta cuck though. Beta cuck is something you're born as, once you've achieved beta cuck status there's no turning back lol.

The first season would probably be everyone at Vegas until we decide its way too fucking expensive and move the house to Tijuana instead. Then at the end of the Tijuana season though Flagooner accidentally drinks the tap water and gets really sick so we decide on Miami for the third season as it has the best mix of latinas, strip club extras, and first world healthcare despite Countryman begging us all to stay in Tijuana.

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that would be interesting . question is what is making a second season... I mean us PL’s are so shallow...

^^^^ That sounds like it would turn into open prostitution.

Documentary material might air on TV, but best if it can also be accessed via recording.

I have seen most everything about 20th Century Warfare.

There are documentaries on the Revolutionary War, non-academic.

Then a feature film:

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Interesting, challenges some widely held assumptions.

Documentaries about things like Revolutionary War, best found in Public Libraries. I sit and do paper sorting work while I watch them over and over and over.

SJG

Tijuana donkies!!!!!!!!

^^^^ Still waiting for some credible first hand accounts, plus time and place info.

SJG

^^^^ Decades ago, friend in college, lived in SD, used to go to TJ all the time. Don't think he did any mongering though. But he said guys invited him to Donkey Shows. So this I see as a first hand account of sidewalk barkers. But of a real donkey show, no. Maybe it was just a set up to rob people. Who knows.

There is that sign hung up on a building in the Nuevo Laredo walled Boys Town. Supposedly the sign was there, at least for a picture. But still not first hand account. I did though post pictures found on line, of what seems to be a real donkey show.

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There are non-academic video documentaries on the Revolutionary War. Just look in public libraries.

SJG

"Plus the task of keeping the donkey's dick clean...."

I pity the poor soul who has that job.

Changing the topic here, as our OP started off mentioning the American Revolution. Right here, "The Cathedral of the World, a Universalist Theology" by Forrest Church.

page 39, What Would Jefferson Do?

" John Adams and Thomas Jefferson together embody the Declaration of Independence, the former as the document's most compelling sponsor, the later its author -- then together through the stirring coincidence of their both dying on July 4, 1826, fifty years to the day it was published. . . . Theologically, the second and third U.S. presidents were unitarians: Adams, a member of the Quincy, Massachusetts, congregation; Jefferson a sect unto himself. . . . As the election of 1800 drew near, Adams faced that looming electoral rematch against Jefferson, his vice president and political enemy. The Federalists derided the politically potent Virginian as an "atheist" (untrue), a "deist" (true), and a "Jacobin" (i.e., "French radical," also true). The Federalists summed up their two greatest nightmares, atheism and popular democracy, by hurling the epithet "Jacobin" at their opponents.

Adams had no sympathy for the French Revolution. Years later, he looked back bitterly on the "hot, rash, blind, headlong, furious efforts to ameliorate the condition of society, to establish liberty, equality, fraternity, and the rights of man." Adams especially scorned Democratic-Republicans like Jefferson who admired the revolutionary French Republic.

(speaking of Independence Day celebrations) The Democratic-Republicans wore French colors (cocked hats with a knot of red, white, and blue ribbons pinned to the side), in saucy contrast to the less frivolous black cockades Federalist stalwarts wore, harking back to the Revolutionary days. To Federalist eyes, Democratic-Republicans with their tricolor cockades had taken the Fourth of July hostage by drawing undue attention to the Preamble of the Declaration of Independence. In writing the Declaration, Jefferson had introduced three lofty principles (the right to liberty, God-given equality, and popular sovereignty) and one incendiary one (the people's authority to overthrow their government). The Federalists' problem, as they themselves soon recognized, lay in the Declaration of Independence itself.

Early in Adam's presidency, proper Philadelphians boycotted Independence Day, which might as well have been Bastille Day as far as the local Federalists were concerned. Nary a black cockade was to be seen on the anniversary of the nation's birth. Many church bells remained silent. And every reveler crowding Independence Square was indecently festooned in heretical red, white, and blue. In New England, separate tricolor and black cockade Fourth of July celebrations became the rule. In their orations, Federalist preachers and politicians dedicated their energies on the nation's birthday to critique the un-American, anti-Christian dogma that Jefferson so impudently inserted into the nation's founding document. In his Boston Independence Day oration in 1799, John Lowell warned his listeners to beware "the seductive doctrines of 'Liberty' and 'Equality.'"

The year before, Alexander Hamilton had no difficulty convincing Adams that for the government to proclaim a national fast day, a federal request honored by all the churches that chose to participate, would galvanize his more conservative Federalist political base. Indeed it did. Raising a host of traditional black cockades, hundreds of New England preachers seized this governmentally sanctioned opportunity to pronounce French and Jeffersonian infidelity a demonic double threat to the future of America's Christian republic.

Later in life, Adams looked back ruefully on his decision to promote a religious event for political gain. He went so far as to claim that it cost him the presidency. for one thing, it left the plausible impression that he had buckled under pressure from Presbyterian church leaders, who urgently were calling for the president to proclaim a day of national worship.

Declaring a national fast was like poking a stick into a nest of hornets. In alarm, dissenting Christians (Baptists, Methodists, and the like) howled that Adams was compromising church-state separation. For sound religious reasons, not only did they boycott the fast, but they also came out in droves to support Jefferson, the more secular candidate. . . . The Declaration of Independence elevated people's sights by placing human law on a higher moral pediment. The result was a civil ethic in which the ideals of liberty and equality received unprecedented priority. . . . In its ringing, redemptive moral urgency, Jefferson's Preamble is rightly remembered as the American Creed.

I tell you, this F. Forrest Church, son of Idaho Senator Frank Church, he really knows his stuff, and he writes well too. If his kind of thinking and reasoning were typical in America, this country, then it would be an entirely different sort of country, and the entire world would be different too.

SJG

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Jefferson was in Paris, even before the Constitution. As communicated in his letters, he always whole heartedly approved of the Revolution, including the Reign of Terror.

And of course his own Preamble had much influenced France.

What the above excerpt shows was that Federalists saw the Democratic-Republican Party as part of the French Revolution.

I know that Madison had taken to calling the Federalists "The British Party".

As I know, President 6 , John Quincy Adams, Had originally been a Federalist, but he was elected as a Democratic-Republican. So the Federalist party then died with John Adams and Alexander Hamilton. But then after that, with the election of Andrew Jackson, the opposition Whig Party came to be.

SJG

I don't understand why you guys care if somebody makes a long post about something you're not interested in. Its quite easy to just not read something and scroll right past.

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how about a series of programming dealing with World War II in Europe... primarily Germany and Hitler?

^^^^^^^^^^ MisterWonderful, there are lots and lots of hours of such programming. I know because I have watched every minute of it, and over and over and over.

SJG

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One topic could be conditions to have strip clubs on Mars and other planets or satellite systems occupied by humans in the future. I would think you need a certain size population and relaxed business rules allowing such fringe elements of society to operate freely and enough of the population able to enjoy such clubs.

I would imagine this might be 50 to 100 years in the future since If a population of 100,000 or larger is required to have relaxed business rules and allow business to operate more freely independent of Earth governments, then it will be a long time. I imagine explorations and settlements could take 20 to 30 years and that things could accelerate after that if businesses and Earth laws allow settlements on Mars.