Television Game of Thrones (TV) • The watch has ended
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I always liked the theory that Jon was Lightbringer. It just seemed to fit quite well.
Even if you don't agree with me on that surely anything would be better than a cardboard cut out of Jon Snow stabbing Evil Dany and fecking off to shag bears up North with Tormund.
Even if you don't agree with me on that surely anything would be better than a cardboard cut out of Jon Snow stabbing Evil Dany and fecking off to shag bears up North with Tormund.
32 Emmy nominations for Final season, including best actor for Jon"You're mcqueen" snow.
Dumb&Dumber nominated for an episode with an IMDB rating of 4.2, less than half of any episode from any of the first seven seasons. Emmys are a complete joke.
And yet here you are talking about them and getting a bit upset over them like they matter.
Just because I think they're shit doesn't make them irrelevant within the tv industry sunshine.
Alfie Allen is the only one who I'd like to see win it. His entire performance has been brilliant, start to end.
Cersei, Brienne, Arya and Sansa get best supporting actress nominations is absurd. Ruth from Ozark deserves that by a country mile.
Cersei, Brienne, Arya and Sansa get best supporting actress nominations is absurd. Ruth from Ozark deserves that by a country mile.
Some of those Emmy noms are absolutely hilarious... namely, pretty much all the acting ones... and the writing ones.
The whole thing just feels like a pisstake, but the Emmy's have always given special preference to iconic shows in their final season's so it's not much of a surprise either.
Who makes the decision on who to nominate? If it's D&D making the decision to put Arya and Sansa forward then it's further proof they are off their fecking heads. I don't know which was worse but they were both awful, not that they had much to work with.
At least they actually had stuff to do (not that the stuff that had to do was good... or that they did it well) Cersei literally spent most of the season staring out of a window.
Yeah, but I've not seen staring out a window done that well since Hayden Christensen in Star Wars Episode 2. It was top drawer stuff.
Arya/Maisie started off as the best Stark child actor then after her dreadful assassin arc she became awful.
One suspects the writing was the problem there rather than her acting ability suddenly deteriorating. The character became ridiculously one dimensional.
I don't think we can judge her acting based on what we saw in GoT, given how all over the place the story telling especially with her character/development was in the last seasons.
She's a bit robotic in season 7 once she gets back to Winterfell - and man that scene on the ramparts in Beyond the Wall (I think?) where she's arguing with Sansa about the Joffrey letter is awful - but I thought she really brought it home in season 8. It was just nice to see her as Arya again, back home with the Starks, defending her own, getting some from Gendry, then eventually killing the Night King and trying to save some common people in King's Landing. That was the Arya she was always supposed to be.
This has been quite funny to read
I don't think @Carolina Red is trolling too much. My gf wasn't invested as much as I was as she basically finished the whole show over 4-5 weeks and wasn't anticipating the final seasons over a long wait.
I gave season 7 leeway thinking they've rushed things there but s8 defo had a lot more stupidity. And captain jerk sparrow was surrounding a lot of it.
Tyrion suggesting they go down into the crypts (which even the actor himself suggested is not too smart) shows it wasn't a good thing for esp what his character has shown
It also didn't help that those who watched weekly were subjected to shit like "dany sorta forgot about the fleet" which binge watchers wouldn't see (the stupidity of that line wiping out at least some sort of imaginative thinking you could have). Not only that but less time to think about and analyze military strategic planning which this thread seemed to have about 50 pages worth
I do find binge watching walking dead made the show much more enjoyable than the weekly viewings and frustrations
First 6 seasons of GoT being watched weekly was an event. I reckon s7 and s8 is less annoying if you binge it (which is kinda a sad defence for such a top level show)
I don't think @Carolina Red is trolling too much. My gf wasn't invested as much as I was as she basically finished the whole show over 4-5 weeks and wasn't anticipating the final seasons over a long wait.
I gave season 7 leeway thinking they've rushed things there but s8 defo had a lot more stupidity. And captain jerk sparrow was surrounding a lot of it.
Tyrion suggesting they go down into the crypts (which even the actor himself suggested is not too smart) shows it wasn't a good thing for esp what his character has shown
It also didn't help that those who watched weekly were subjected to shit like "dany sorta forgot about the fleet" which binge watchers wouldn't see (the stupidity of that line wiping out at least some sort of imaginative thinking you could have). Not only that but less time to think about and analyze military strategic planning which this thread seemed to have about 50 pages worth
I do find binge watching walking dead made the show much more enjoyable than the weekly viewings and frustrations
First 6 seasons of GoT being watched weekly was an event. I reckon s7 and s8 is less annoying if you binge it (which is kinda a sad defence for such a top level show)
Do like this point. I think it has something to do with what California Red is saying, and it has a little bit to do with how the last season's being viewed overall. Back when season 7 ended I remember listening to a podcast who did a review of it in one go, and to do so they all binge-watched it again within a few days instead of doing one per week - every host said it worked better when viewed in one or two sittings as opposed to waiting for a week for the next one to come around. Since season 8's finished I've been thinking about that again, about how the way quite a lot of people watch Game of Thrones has changed significantly since season 6.
The number of live weekly viewers shot up after season 6, which means that quite a lot of new viewers went from binge-watching the first six seasons to watching the last two on a week by week basis, which meant that they had time to get involved with detailed discussions and theories and such. In the past, if they had a question or an annoyance, they couldn't go online to talk about it because they'd risk getting spoiled, and quite often the show would just answer their questions anyway. Take the (ridiculous) complaints people made about Jon not petting Ghost - if they binge-watch the season, Jon's back petting Ghost within two episodes and the complaints never arise.
Sometimes it means the show doesn't hold up quite so well under scrutiny when people have a week to analyse it, but I think having a week to analyse something can often take the instant joy out of it. I think people stopped trusting the show to just tell its story - they were instead waiting for an ending that met the expectations and theories they'd spent all that time coming up with, so when the show didn't deliver the natural human reaction was to be pissed off. That's not to absolve the show of anything it did wrong - I loved the last season but could see it was flawed in avoidable ways - but I think it partially explains why quite a lot of people who came to the show either after Jon's stabbing (like me) or 'The Winds of Winter' (like a lot of people) were left a little confused and bewildered by the last two seasons.
i've watched it weekly since the day it started and I can categorically say that season 8 is a massive pile of turd.
Oh yeah I'm not saying that it's the only reason - the GOT fanbase is too big for any simplistic analysis - but I think such a radical change in viewing habits can have an effect on how people receive a TV show.
I don't think it's a reason at all. The final season was pure shite regardless of what way you view it.
Actually maybe it would've been better watching it backwards seeing as it got progressively more shite the more it went along.
Okay, not up for a chat, then. That's cool.
I think s8 overall is so poor cos it felt rushed as well as taking too long (if that makes sense). It hit some notes it needed to, but it wasnt natural progression but a rushed attempt to get there.
Where they ended up was fine, how they did it was mostly the issue for me.
The annoying thing is watching youtube videos months after its finished, and it coming back
Where they ended up was fine, how they did it was mostly the issue for me.
The annoying thing is watching youtube videos months after its finished, and it coming back
When you think back to the last moments between Jon and Dany that really SHOULD have been one of TV's finest scenes and the climax of 8 years of storytelling. As it was however, I don't think anyone really reacted to it with any sense of shock or loss. It was all very underwhelming, especially considering that this series is famous for delivering on these type of payoffs. It sounds mean but I think Kit didn't exactly cover himself in glory with his acting in that season although Emilia did well with the script she was given.
I liked his speech after ep3 however his lines when you see them are pretty bad. I think most of the dialogue was bad although Dany I thought was great with her delivery
Could have just cut euron out and Asha/Yara could have just played that part. Could have saved a lot of nonsense.
Euron. Fecking Euron. What were they thinking?
One of the most morally corrupt cnuts reduced to "Tee hee I'm gonna feck the Queen with my big cock!"
One of the most morally corrupt cnuts reduced to "Tee hee I'm gonna feck the Queen with my big cock!"
Lack of dragon binder and the valyrian doom expeditions kind of spoiled his legend. The guy has an Armour of valyrian steel that's probably worth the iron islands itself
Pretty much when they ran out of book material, the word cock was used in every third sentence, which is one the reasons why I really started disliking the show.
That's true but there is still stuff they could've done. Replace Damphair with Yara, for example.
That could've helped Rhaegal's death scene. Dany sees the fleet (instead of "kinda forgetting" about them) flies towards to it but then sees Yara bound to the prow of Euron's ship. Dany then hesitates and Rhaegal gets shot as a result.
That is so much better. I guess it means that theon doesn't save her and get redemption with her however.
But then again euron said they were all mutes however you hear his people shouting fire ... So guess they kinda forgot.
Forgetful season is this winter ...
It did feel that although they knew what was going to happen to the main characters (which GRRM told them) they were kind of making some stuff up as they went along. The Yara storyline was almost instantly abandoned in season 8. Also, It never really gets discussed because everyone hated the Dorne stuff but I get the feeling that initially Bronn and the youngest Sandsnake were gonna get together at some point in the series (they were setting that up) but then the writers probably thought, everybody hates this Dorne stuff we'll ditch this (probably a wise move).
With Euron though they just decided not to use the book material. Which is an absolute travesty because he’s probably the most intriguing character of the latter books.
Around 200m deal
Amazon, Disney and netflix all wanted them ha
Failing upwards.
Best season evvvva wins outstanding drama series