Episode 3, Game of Thrones

By Tom Hickmore

Game of Thrones is impossible to follow –unless you are plugged into to all it’s other media outlets. As such GOT is an excellent model for an L&D campaign,with a high-budget drama at its centre and cheapermedia being employed to discuss it.

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Just in time for Christmas 2022 here’s a video about the classic movie Die Hard. Is it a Christmas movie? I suggest it is, and spend the video in a humorous analysis of the themes of the movie to prove the point.

Episode 6, Breaking Bad

April 21, 2022

In L&D there is a widespread misconception that if you make a character bland, uncharacterised,or even not there, (by dint of putting the camera in the position of the protagonist), this willmaximise empathy. That isjust wrong. In this analysis I show how the Breaking Bad pilot episode creates a drug-dealing killer who isa sympathetic human being.

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