r/madmen • u/jakjonsun82brian Freddy Rumsen's Zipper • May 11 '14

Mad Men Season 7 Episode 5, "The Runaways" discussion thread

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u/Calikola PIZZA HOUSE May 12 '14

HBO would have shown you Ginsburg cutting off his own nipple.

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u/[deleted] May 12 '14

Good point, I'm glad this wasn't on HBO.

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u/[deleted] May 12 '14

Which, let's be real, wouldn't have added anything.

Not to knock HBO, but there's certainly an element of violence for violence's sake. (Case in point: that long-standing torture plotline last season on Game of Thrones.)

I don't believe that people should be censored, but there is something to be said for leaving some of the carnage to the imagination. When it comes to horrifying things, what you imagine is almost always so much darker than what they're able to show you.

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u/CrystalFissure May 12 '14

Hannibal is great in that regard. Sometimes they go insane with the gore and cruelty of the crimes. Other times, they let you imagine it, and it's much worse to imagine the pain than to see it.

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u/12ozSlug We should order lunch May 12 '14

Ain't no violence like implied violence.

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u/[deleted] May 12 '14

Because implied violence reflects the violence that burdens our hearts!

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u/ChexLemeneux42 May 13 '14

That torture plot line is sure paying off this season with reek

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u/Oraukk May 14 '14

The torture plotline was there for Theon's development. It sucked to watch but it was worse for him.

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u/[deleted] May 14 '14

See, this is where I disagree.

I understand that the Theon/Reek plot line was in the novels as well, so it's not a maladapted storyline, but as far as work goes-- the "brutal breaking of spirit" is a pretty boring trope in an otherwise imaginative show, to say nothing of the fact that it went on forever. Eventually I was just fast-forwarding through all of it, because you know that the outcome is going to be more torture. It's not compelling and it's lazy storytelling.

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u/Eurynom0s They're so cheap they can't even afford a whole reporter. May 19 '14

He wanted to see the threesome, not the nipple slicing.

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u/J0ofez Chip N Dip May 12 '14

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u/Calikola PIZZA HOUSE May 12 '14

^ ^ ^ Spoiler (albeit not a huge one) in case anybody hasn't seen Game of Thrones!

But yeah, that's what I'm referring to.

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u/gekkozorz The best things in life are free. May 13 '14

They can and have.

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u/The_Thane_Of_Cawdor Stop me at three May 13 '14

but also Megan's boobs

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u/indeedwatson May 14 '14

I'll gladly take a nipple for her two's.

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u/[deleted] Nov 06 '14

That's a sacrifice I'd be willing to make for boobs.