I watch DS - especially the first three years - and marvel at the writing. Even with inconsistencies the dialogue is often wonderful and the acting is usually exceptional.
Yes ... In how many TV shows today do characters recite poetry?
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Ah, love, let us be true
To one another! for the world, which seems
To lie before us like a land of dreams,
So various, so beautiful, so new,
Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,
Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;
And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night.
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Matthew Arnold, "Dover Beach"
