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The Library => Broun Hall => Topic started by: The Six on March 25, 2013, 12:21:38 PM
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Any watchers on the board?
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I've read the first four books (will be purchasing number five soon). I've seen season one.
I need to see season two soon. It's a really good show. Unfortunately, they overdo it on the sex scenes, so my wife just sees it as filth. There's a lot of sex in the books, but HBO took it to a whole new level.
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I've read the first four books (will be purchasing number five soon). I've seen season one.
I need to see season two soon. It's a really good show. Unfortunately, they overdo it on the sex scenes, so my wife just sees it as filth. There's a lot of sex in the books, but HBO took it to a whole new level.
I just started watching it and burned through the first two seasons. The sex is overwrought but that's HBO. The action is very good and the acting really carries it.
Never read the books. Worth a peep?
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I just started watching it and burned through the first two seasons. The sex is overwrought but that's HBO. The action is very good and the acting really carries it.
Never read the books. Worth a peep?
The books are ten times better than the show, but they are a chore to read. 1000+ pages each. Lots of minute details. But I've enjoyed them.
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I'll give the first one a shot then.
I'll say this on the nudity side. At least it's more justified and better than the skin on 'Girls.'
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I've read the first four books (will be purchasing number five soon). I've seen season one.
I need to see season two soon. It's a really good show. Unfortunately, they overdo it on the sex scenes, so my wife just sees it as filth. There's a lot of sex in the books, but HBO took it to a whole new level.
I guess you missed Spartacus then.
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Game of Thrones is the best show on Television.
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Game of Thrones is the best show on Television.
Unless it isn't.
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Awesome show. Wish they would show the soft nipples of Calisi more. :tongue:
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Awesome show. Wish they would show the soft nipples of Calisi more. :tongue:
Khal Drogo would have your head for that...but I concur.
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June 1, 2013
O. M. G.
That is all. Speechless.
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June 1, 2013
O. M. G.
That is all. Speechless.
I will never look at a wedding reception the same way again.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnxvUuSzbMI (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnxvUuSzbMI)
:jaw: :jaw: :jaw:
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I'm so glad I didn't read the books before. Reading them from behind with the faces in mind is better.
Knowing what was going to happen would have diminished the complete emotional drain left when the show ended.
Was simply speechless.
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I'm so glad I didn't read the books before. Reading them from behind with the faces in mind is better.
Knowing what was going to happen would have diminished the complete emotional drain left when the show ended.
Was simply speechless.
Compare this to The Sopranos. Which is better in your mind?
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Compare this to The Sopranos. Which is better in your mind?
Long-term quality, Sopranos definitely. Will never be a better series. Every time I watch a random episode I'm amazed at all that is packed into each one. Each episode is almost like an entire season of development.
I was lamenting the slow drag of this Thrones season where nothing happened -- until last night.
It's well done, no doubt. But since The Sopranos was not taking a book and adapting it, but was written specifically for the medium it remains the best television show ever and I don't think anything can come close.
Thrones can definitely leave you speechless, though.
That last night was the equivalent of Ziva David killing McGee, Tony and Abby on NCIS or Otis slaughtering Andy, Barney, Opie and Aunt Bee.
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I'm so glad I didn't read the books before. Reading them from behind with the faces in mind is better.
Knowing what was going to happen would have diminished the complete emotional drain left when the show ended.
Was simply speechless.
That emotional drain was there and better when that book chapter ended. More happens in the book to completely eviscerate your guts.
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That emotional drain was there and better when that book chapter ended. More happens in the book to completely eviscerate your guts.
I'll get there. I just don't want to get ahead.
Having watched first and then read I enjoy the books a lot better. There are too many people to keep them all separate in my mind without the show giving me the mental template for what each looks like.
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I'm so glad I didn't read the books before. Reading them from behind with the faces in mind is better.
Knowing what was going to happen would have diminished the complete emotional drain left when the show ended.
Was simply speechless.
http://youtu.be/78juOpTM3tE
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I didn't like them killing the Wolf.
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http://youtu.be/78juOpTM3tE
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I didn't like them killing the Wolf.
Question, and I hope I don't spoil anything for next week although this wouldn't be a big spoiler at all -
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Ok, possible spoiler question below.
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Did they saw off Robb's head and sow the head of his dire wolf onto his torso?
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https://vine.co/v/b3XZMHmxzxh
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https://vine.co/v/b3XZMHmxzxh
How are people receiving that? Because after 6 years of teaching 9th and 10th graders, that just made me cringe.
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How are people receiving that? Because after 6 years of teaching 9th and 10th graders, that just made me cringe.
I assume you're referring to her grammar? Pretty sure that was intentional...
On another note, did anyone realize that this girl is 16? I'm sure they do a lot to make her look younger for the show, but still...I would have guessed younger. I guess it's because she's so damn short my size.
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I assume you're referring to her grammar? Pretty sure that was intentional...
On another note, did anyone realize that this girl is 16? I'm sure they do a lot to make her look younger for the show, but still...I would have guessed younger. I guess it's because she's so damn short my size.
Just her mannerisms and voice.
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Just her mannerisms and voice.
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Suprised no mention of this yet..
(http://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/article9258399.ece/ALTERNATES/w620/joffrey.jpg)
I mean damn. Just look at that clevage.
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Drink up Joff
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Suprised no mention of this yet..
(http://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/article9258399.ece/ALTERNATES/w620/joffrey.jpg)
I mean damn. Just look at that clevage.
No shit! Is it bad that the entire death scene I was looking at her boobies? I think not.
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Drink up Joff
I thought it was the pie/cake? That's why they had the very quick scene with the dead birds inside and he was the only one who ate from it.
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I thought it was the pie/cake? That's why they had the very quick scene with the dead birds inside and he was the only one who ate from it.
Think you are right.
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Suprised no mention of this yet..
(http://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/article9258399.ece/ALTERNATES/w620/joffrey.jpg)
I mean damn. Just look at that clevage.
And based on his mannerism, prolly not the first time he has had something dribble out of his mouth. :facepalm:
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I thought it was the pie/cake? That's why they had the very quick scene with the dead birds inside and he was the only one who ate from it.
I think the birds were dead because Joffrey slashed into the pie with a sword. If you pause the following video at 4:20, you can see that at least one bird's head has been severed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2W2xHM4cWo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2W2xHM4cWo)
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I think the birds were dead because Joffrey slashed into the pie with a sword. If you pause the following video at 4:20, you can see that at least one bird's head has been severed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2W2xHM4cWo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2W2xHM4cWo)
Thought that too. I guess how is going to be left up to each persons imagination as forensics back then were most likely weak at best.
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Thought that too. I guess how is going to be left up to each persons imagination as forensics back then were most likely weak at best.
SPOILER
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3:28-3:33 then 4:31-4:34
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5ScY2o3rpI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5ScY2o3rpI)
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There were many involved.
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SPOILER
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3:28-3:33 then 4:31-4:34
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5ScY2o3rpI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5ScY2o3rpI)
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There were many involved.
True dat, but the little dude is about to get heavily fucked with.
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It. Is Moving. So. Slowly.
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It. Is Moving. So. Slowly.
Yup, last night was meh.
Wanna see some dragons flame a city.
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It. Is Moving. So. Slowly.
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The Mountain vs. The Red Viper.
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The Mountain vs. The Red Viper.
Really? Was sort of meh.
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If the guy would of shut his fucking mouth.
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Really? Was sort of meh.
Not sure how SPOILERS a guy getting cut up, taunted, stabbed with a spear, then the other dude getting skullfucked is meh exactly. I thought it was the usual insert the knife and twist move of this show. I'm convinced SPOILERS e'rrbody gonna die on this show.
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Not sure how...
I had mentioned to Uncle Sani the other day that George R. R. Martin was finishing up the script for Season 5...
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I think this is the last season I will watch.
From about this point on the books start to really suck. The guy fell in love with the sound of his own voice. The next book is really stupid in terms of character development. Things happen for no reason. He spends 500 pages of a 600 page novel describing food and clothing. New people show up who don't matter to anybody or anything.
If they follow the books from here out, it's not worth watching. Not even Dany's unique hotness can save it.
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Ole Martin has a message to those of you who are worried that he will die before completing the series:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQv90HLUGto& (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQv90HLUGto#ws)
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Ok, so obviously I didn't quit watching. I'm there to the end.
I figure either lots of people are going to die this week or it's going to be the biggest fake-off in history and the real army of the dead will show up in King's Landing and the decision will be whether or not to engage them there and save Cersi's reign.
I do like this series. I like the way it has this almost Vince McMahon-esque quality of taking a good guy and turning him bad or taking a bad guy and turning him good. The heel/face turns keep people engaged. Take Jamie Lannister. Asshole of the universe in season one, but now it's hard not to be on his side. Hate The Hound, love the Hound. Despise entitled bitch Sansa, like queen bitch Sansa.
I used to love Danerys but I've grown sick and tired of her self-righteous posturing. Sam summed her up quite succinctly when he asked John if she'd give up her crown.
The only two characters that have been consistent are Tyrion and Cersei.
It's still not The Sopranos. But it's pretty good.
Meanwhile, Avengers Endgame....
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So I was somewhat underwhelmed by Avengers Endgame.
I was seriously disappointed in the Battle for Winterfell on last night's Game of Thrones.
For eight years they built up the coming threat from the Night King and his army of undead. And then in about 44 minutes of so-blurry-you-couldn't-tell-what-was-going-on action he was dispatched by a simple knife prick. This after absorbing a lengthy blast of dragon fire with no ill effects and waking the dead (and long dead) with a smug wave of his hands.
I realize the series is barreling to its end and I realize that that bloated sack of lazy goo George RR Martin wrote them into a box with an inconvenient white walker mythology that needed at this point to really just get the fuck out of the way so we can reach the end of the journey for Jon, Ceirsi, Dany, Sansa, Arya, Jamie and Tyrion.
But to get the entire threat the fuck out of the way like THAT? With no exposition, no explanation of what they really wanted and how they intended to get it? It felt incomplete. It felt rushed. It, for the first time, really felt formulaic. Last night was not great television. It was not up to the standards of the show that came before it. It was not worthy.
First, what the fuck with Bran? While all that's going on he's got his eyes rolled back into his head, flapping around with crows and offering nothing of substance or help. We didn't even get to find out what he was doing with the damn birds or what he intended to see.
So the Night King walks up to him. What does he want? What's his purpose? And why did Theon's stupid ass run at him like a drunken monkey instead of offering a defensive, fighting posture and at least having a chance. Such a stupid suicide run. The ignorance of that moment took away any emotion I might have felt when Theon died.
What a wasted opportunity in the crypt. How utterly cool would it have been to see a blue eyed Ned Stark crawl out of the crypt and try to murder Sansa? Oh wait, he was beheaded. That might not have worked. I don't know. Wasn't Robb or his mom down there? Let one of them do it then. Just an opportunity squandered you ask me.
That whole episode looked to me like a cross between The Walking Dead and World War Z with a little bit of "kill the head vampire" lore from any of a hundred different movies tossed in. It just wasn't what I'd been led to believe or hoped for.
The decision to bath the battle in dark tones and make the action nearly indistinguishable was a bad one. Very bad.
Also disappointing was the too-convenient decision to only remove a few fringe characters and leave the primary ensemble intact. That was formula television, not Game of Thrones. I didn't want to see any of them die, but I didn't want to see Robb, Ned, Littleweiner, Roz, or many of the others fall either. The fact that in the past that was possible helped elevate the show. Making all the "big stars" untouchable detracts from that.
Only three episodes left. I've got a feeling this series like far too many others is going to limp to the line.
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So I was somewhat underwhelmed by Avengers Endgame.
I was seriously disappointed in the Battle for Winterfell on last night's Game of Thrones.
For eight years they built up the coming threat from the Night King and his army of undead. And then in about 44 minutes of so-blurry-you-couldn't-tell-what-was-going-on action he was dispatched by a simple knife prick. This after absorbing a lengthy blast of dragon fire with no ill effects and waking the dead (and long dead) with a smug wave of his hands.
I realize the series is barreling to its end and I realize that that bloated sack of lazy goo George RR Martin wrote them into a box with an inconvenient white walker mythology that needed at this point to really just get the fuck out of the way so we can reach the end of the journey for Jon, Ceirsi, Dany, Sansa, Arya, Jamie and Tyrion.
But to get the entire threat the fuck out of the way like THAT? With no exposition, no explanation of what they really wanted and how they intended to get it? It felt incomplete. It felt rushed. It, for the first time, really felt formulaic. Last night was not great television. It was not up to the standards of the show that came before it. It was not worthy.
First, what the fuck with Bran? While all that's going on he's got his eyes rolled back into his head, flapping around with crows and offering nothing of substance or help. We didn't even get to find out what he was doing with the damn birds or what he intended to see.
So the Night King walks up to him. What does he want? What's his purpose? And why did Theon's stupid ass run at him like a drunken monkey instead of offering a defensive, fighting posture and at least having a chance. Such a stupid suicide run. The ignorance of that moment took away any emotion I might have felt when Theon died.
What a wasted opportunity in the crypt. How utterly cool would it have been to see a blue eyed Ned Stark crawl out of the crypt and try to murder Sansa? Oh wait, he was beheaded. That might not have worked. I don't know. Wasn't Robb or his mom down there? Let one of them do it then. Just an opportunity squandered you ask me.
That whole episode looked to me like a cross between The Walking Dead and World War Z with a little bit of "kill the head vampire" lore from any of a hundred different movies tossed in. It just wasn't what I'd been led to believe or hoped for.
The decision to bath the battle in dark tones and make the action nearly indistinguishable was a bad one. Very bad.
Also disappointing was the too-convenient decision to only remove a few fringe characters and leave the primary ensemble intact. That was formula television, not Game of Thrones. I didn't want to see any of them die, but I didn't want to see Robb, Ned, Littleweiner, Roz, or many of the others fall either. The fact that in the past that was possible helped elevate the show. Making all the "big stars" untouchable detracts from that.
Only three episodes left. I've got a feeling this series like far too many others is going to limp to the line.
I agree with pretty much all of this, so let me hit the highlights for emphasis:
44 minutes of so-blurry-you-couldn't-tell-what-was-going-on action
The decision to bath the battle in dark tones and make the action nearly indistinguishable was a bad one. Very bad.
This can't be overstated. What a clusterfuck of a visual fail. What a goddamned travesty of cinematography. Or maybe it was just a tight-budgeted cop-out. There was an Endgame-level of CGI needed for that episode. Whatever their reason, it fucking failed. What an unwatchable pile.
First, what the fuck with Bran? While all that's going on he's got his eyes rolled back into his head, flapping around with crows and offering nothing of substance or help. We didn't even get to find out what he was doing with the damn birds or what he intended to see.
And why did Theon's stupid ass run at him like a drunken monkey instead of offering a defensive, fighting posture and at least having a chance. Such a stupid suicide run.
These two I think are knee-jerk. I say that with my own knee landing quite the uppercut. Those are too glaringly obvious to be the penultimate scenes of those characters (I hope.) Presumably the writers have a couple of last appearances for the stupid and immobile.
What a wasted opportunity in the crypt.
Totally agree on this point, but for a different reason. The lame, low-energy, decrepit corpses would have been way more exciting as a bunch of speed zombies like their counterparts on the upper levels.
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More convinced now than ever everyone who is a major player is going to sit down at a long table in the last episode and...cut to black.
You can feel it from a mile away. As sure as Auburn after a first down is running a power dive up the middle on hurry up. It's fated.
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More convinced now than ever everyone who is a major player is going to sit down at a long table in the last episode and...cut to black.
You can feel it from a mile away. As sure as Auburn after a first down is running a power dive up the middle on hurry up. It's fated.
If anybody orders onion rings for the table I’m changing the channel.
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If anybody orders onion rings for the table I’m changing the channel.
Don't stop...
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SPOILER ALERT: There's a Starbucks in Winterfell. (I have no clue what Winterfell is....or GOT is....but there's a Starbucks there.)
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Snags, with all the tits and ass they show, I'm shocked you haven't watched it.
Unless you're really gay.
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Snags, with all the tits and ass they show, I'm shocked you haven't watched it.
Unless you're really gay.
Nobody told me.
And I am NOT gay.
Uuunnnless I'm out of town, the guy is really hot and buying me drinks. But, I don't think that makes me gay. Just easy.
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As tired as I am of RR Martin's name, shaggy face and the near-endless prattling about clothes and food that made up 94.311% of his last few books, I really think that the people making this show completely lost their way without the source material.
I still like watching it. I still want to see how it ends, but my hopes for anything approaching greatness have faded significantly. Right up until the end of Martin's books, the series did a really good job of breathing life into the characters, establishing the proper tone and setting up the shocking reveals that elevated GOT from a bad medieval show into something that begged to be watched. They seemed to keep most of that momentum through Tommen's marriage to Margery, Cersei's revenge on the Sparrows and Tommen's response to that act.
But this? Yeeshka. They had years to get this right and if this is what they've come up with I'm staggeringly disappointed.
White walkers are, I suppose, just gone. No explanation of their burning symbols, no exposition on their purpose or any of that.
Last night's episode was one of just three remaining and it was really a waste of time. Maybe it was trying to set something up, but if so, that's the third of six final episodes that was essentially filler. The one that wasn't was so poorly conceived and executed that it should be literally executed.
Maybe the last two episodes can surprise me, but this series is feeling a whole hell of a lot more like Lumberjack Dexter than it is Newhart wakes up from a dream.
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And just like that, it goes down in flames.
Dracarys.
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shark jump a palooza
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shark jump a palooza
Very clumsily handled. Bears no relation to last five seasons.
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Very clumsily handled. Bears no relation to last five seasons.
Something, something about there not being any more books for inspiration...
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And just like that, it goes down in flames.
Dracarys.
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Something, something about there not being any more books for inspiration...
Visually, the episode was stunning. At least it had that over the long, dark (dark, dark, dark) night -- which was the most disappointing episode ever and clear evidence of just how turd-baked this rush to the end was going to be.
Unfortunately every other decision other than the visuals in this episode was poorly made. It's not what long-time fans of this series wanted or deserved. Ignominious, ignoble ends for major characters. Everything was contrived and the motives all suspect.
Quite frankly, who gives a rat's chapped ass about Euron Greyjoy. Couldn't we have just left him alone?
Also? Where is Bran and his vision?
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Visually, the episode was stunning. At least it had that over the long, dark (dark, dark, dark) night -- which was the most disappointing episode ever and clear evidence of just how turd-baked this rush to the end was going to be.
Unfortunately every other decision other than the visuals in this episode was poorly made. It's not what long-time fans of this series wanted or deserved. Ignominious, ignoble ends for major characters. Everything was contrived and the motives all suspect.
Quite frankly, who gives a rat's chapped ass about Euron Greyjoy. Couldn't we have just left him alone?
Also? Where is Bran and his vision?
It's wild to think both episodes were directed by the same person. I contend Michael Bay was brought in during post-production and editing for episode 5.
Euron is the General Grievous of Game of Thrones.
Bran might as well be a haunted painting on the wall at the house from The Ghost & Mr. Chicken.
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I'm loving all the 2016 memes comparing Hillary to Dani.
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Is it me, or is it a huge let down that Cersei just died with her brother under the city. No one got to watch her burn or die or agonize or nothing. What a waste...
Now what happens? Dany and Jon fight for the throne? Who cares...there is nothing left. What about Winterfell?
This last Season has been disappointing to say the least...
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Is it me, or is it a huge let down that Cersei just died with her brother under the city. No one got to watch her burn or die or agonize or nothing. What a waste...
Now what happens? Dany and Jon fight for the throne? Who cares...there is nothing left. What about Winterfell?
This last Season has been disappointing to say the least...
Agreed.
I think Arya kills Dani though. And Jon goes back north of the wall. Sansa or Bran on the throne (although I think Bran would pass on it).
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Is it me, or is it a huge let down that Cersei just died with her brother under the city. No one got to watch her burn or die or agonize or nothing. What a waste...
Now what happens? Dany and Jon fight for the throne? Who cares...there is nothing left. What about Winterfell?
This last Season has been disappointing to say the least...
The death of the Night King and Cersei are both extremely disappointing.
One could make the case that what happened mirrors reality more so than the dramatic ending we expected. Hitler shot himself in a bunker. Sadaam hid in a hole and looked like a bum. Pol Pot, Stalin, Genghis, Idi Amin, Nero, Gadaffi, Mussolini... none of them died dramatic and deserved deaths. Well, maybe Mussolini did.
There are so many things I hate about these last episodes:
1) The Jamie turn. Eight seasons of character development trashed because he decided banging a big woman wasn't worth the effort. What's the lesson there? A leopard is always a leopard? People can't learn honor?
2) Samwell's arc. All that crap about him being a maester and learning stuff and every single bit of it was apparently so Gilly could figure out who Jon's mother was. His story is over and it seems pointless now.
3) The Dany turn. Okay, this one we should have seen coming. She burned anybody who crossed her, she was full of herself and had this wrong-headed belief that she 'deserved' to be the ruler. She's always been cruel -- remember the crucifixions? This season has been about her finally coming to understand that the ONLY thing she had was her dragons. Without them she's a big zero. Burning King's Landing to prove her might was a far shrewder move than being the merciful savior -- because most people didn't realize they needed saving anyway. But the way it was handled just seemed abrupt.
4) Convenience. It's been a long-time problem with the show. People just pop up across continents out of story necessity. Dany can't see a fleet of boats from her vantage point in the clear sky. The fleet magically transports itself like people do.
5) Dangling threads. I get it. Sometimes you just have them. Nobody knows where the Russian went in Pine Barrens and that doesn't really matter in the long run. But this? So much left hanging. Like... Where is Yara? What did the Night King want? Where does Bran go? Who's running Dorne? Who's running Highgarden? Who's running The Riverlands? What happened to the Iron Bank? What's going on at the Citadel or whatever it was called? What about the Stone People and the scale? Who's running the Dothraki lands now that they jumped on boats to follow Dany? Is that it for Tormund? Do we still need the Wall?
6) WTF with Bran? All that eye rolling and warging and three-eyed ravens and tree people and crying white trees. What does any of that really matter? There was always a 'magical' aspect to the show, something that was under the surface. All that's really been sort of discarded now.
7) A Girl Has No Name. Wasted nearly two seasons on that and apparently the only point of it was for Arya to kill Walder Frey and then kill all his people. That entire storyline has been abandoned. So much potential there for her to take things over by killing and becoming Cersei or Jamie or practially anybody. But let's just forget all that now.
8) Forgotten prophecies. For the show's entire run, it's been good about revealing the prophecies as they come to fruition. All of Cersei's came true until they didn't. And the savior Azor prophecy has now been trashed.
9) Red herrings. Three people have petted dragons on the nose. Dany, who we know is a Targaryen, Jon who we discovered is from that family and.... Tyrion. Is there a point to that?
10) The protected class. This show hooked me when Ned lost his head. I was stunned. It kept me enthralled when the Red Wedding turned red. It tugged at me when Hodor's true nature was revealed. But that's been a long time and as the seasons turned it lost that ability to surprise because like any other series you knew that certain characters were protected to the end. Even the Jon Snow is dead fake out was empty.
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It’s over.
Before it started I told some friends I hoped they didn’t do something so trite as having Arya or Jon kill Dany and then do something so lame as making. Bran king.
FML.
The biggest disappointments to me were 1) in the end the season’s long mystery of Jon’s parentage didn’t matter at all; and 2) the Azor prophecy was completely discarded.
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What a pantload.
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What a pantload.
Be curious as to what specifically loaded your pants.
It’s apparently incredibly difficult to end a great series. So many failures. Seinfeld. Dexter. How I raped your mother. Sopranos possibly (although that has aged well for me). So few successes. Breaking Bad. Newhart.
This wasnt Lumberjack Dexter bad. But it was riding Fonzies motorcycle toward the shark cage at full speed. The guys who adapted it proved adept at bringing Martins vision to life. But when presented the opportunity to expand beyond that construct they proved to be TV executives, not creators.
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Be curious as to what specifically loaded your pants.
Plenty to harp on, but here are the high points from last night:
1) Jon can't pull rank on Greyworm and stop the prisoner killing? At the very least, ask the prisoners, "Is anyone here loyal to Cersei?" and take the wind out of G's sails a bit and force a little more deliberation.
2) Arya lost her name for two seasons and the ultimate payoff is....? It would have been truer to everyone's characters if she had recognized that Jon's a huge pussy who wouldn't kill Dany and she stole his face to do the deed.
3) The dragon has a bit more philosophical bent than most of the characters in the show and decides that the myopic pursuit of power was the killer of his mother and not the dumbshit standing there with the sword.
4) Do-nothing, sit on the sidelines Bran wins? Jon's geneaology ultimately means fuck-all? Arya is now Chris Columbus?
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Plenty to harp on, but here are the high points from last night:
1) Jon can't pull rank on Greyworm and stop the prisoner killing? At the very least, ask the prisoners, "Is anyone here loyal to Cersei?" and take the wind out of G's sails a bit and force a little more deliberation.
2) Arya lost her name for two seasons and the ultimate payoff is....? It would have been truer to everyone's characters if she had recognized that Jon's a huge pussy who wouldn't kill Dany and she stole his face to do the deed.
3) The dragon has a bit more philosophical bent than most of the characters in the show and decides that the myopic pursuit of power was the killer of his mother and not the dumbshit standing there with the sword.
4) Do-nothing, sit on the sidelines Bran wins? Jon's geneaology ultimately means fuck-all? Arya is now Chris Columbus?
Agree all.
Except Arya. Can’t steal a live persons face I didn’t think.
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Agree all.
Except Arya. Can’t steal a live persons face I didn’t think.
Brings up an excellent question of whether or not JS is technically alive or just undead? Meh, it was a cluster all around. Sorry I watched it after the books ended. Not interested in reading any allegedly forthcoming books either because GRRM will probably punk out as well.
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Agree all.
Except Arya. Can’t steal a live persons face I didn’t think.
In my scenario, Stone Cold Killa Arya offs Jon for the greater good.
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Agree all.
Except Arya. Can’t steal a live persons face I didn’t think.
Yes. Yes you can.
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Haven't seen a single episode. It sounds like Auburn football. Start seeing something good. Then........ Wtf Gus!
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So my issues with the final season...
1) John's parents... served no purposed in the grand scheme of things. He could have just stayed as a bastard, and it wouldn't have changed anything. Why even make him Dani's nephew? Last week, Varys sends the crows out with Jon's true legacy. And no one gives a shit?
2) Giving the land to the unsullied. Aren't they incapable of having kids, and thus, passing along their lands from generation to generation? So, Greyworm's cool with that? Bran's sitting there thinking, yeah, I just need to wait you out 30 years, and we get the land back, no biggie.
3) Sansa declaring the north to be free, and the rest of the kingdoms are ok with that? Even the ones who sided with Cersi?
4) I saw Chad say this on Twitter, but if Cersi and Jamie stood about 15 feet to their left or right, they are alive.
5) So John goes back to the nightwatch... what exactly are they nightwatching? The wildlings that the north thought were savages that ended up allying with them?
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So my issues with the final season...
5) So John goes back to the nightwatch... what exactly are they nightwatching? The wildlings that the north thought were savages that ended up allying with them?
Tyrion does say there will always be a place for broken men and bastards to go to. It's a ceremonial "punishment" if anything. He leaves with Tormund and the other Free Folk to live north of the Wall because there's nothing left to watch for. Especially knowing what they know now. Should the White Walkers ever come back, they know exactly how to handle that. No need to get into a fuss.