Originally Posted by Lisnaholic

i) maybe it's an Ozark accent or my diminished hearing, but I regularly fail to catch what is being said and have to wind back. I'm going to blame this on Marlon Brando, with his performance in The Godfather: actors are obliged to adopt muffled pronunciation these days to show just how in the part they are.

Originally Posted by OccultHawk

It makes everything visually boring (to me)

Which may be why GOT never captured my attention enough to follow the plot.

I secretly think almost no one understood it, though

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.