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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ovinomancer" data-source="post: 7195088" data-attributes="member: 16814">Wait, which it is you're contending, was SKT based on Lear or Leir?  And, either way, it's still nothing but a shallow coincidence that there's a king with three daughters, the youngest the favorite.  As I point out above, and you so neatly ignored, there are no other similarities in plot.  So, it's patently ridiculous that a shallow comparison lends itself to explaining that the regent is guarded by two morons because, in Lear, the king was only guarded by a knight and a fool after being betrayed by his daughters -- something that doesn't happen at all in SKT.By the way, paraphrasing the top line of the wikipedia entry to look like you pulled it from somewhere else?  Not very canny.</blockquote>