NorgLyle posted:

Hot Take incoming:

The worst parts of the show, the least interesting thing on the television story, is and has always been the White Walkers and the Ice Zombie Army. Game of Thrones season one was spectacularly well received and drew in a ton of fans from outside the Fantasy & Sci Fi Convention circuits and it barely featured any Ice Zombies at all. I would go so far as to say that basically the quality of each year of Game of Thrones is almost directly inversely proportional to the amount of Ice Zombie featured in the episodes.

The problems with the White Walkers are numerous. We don't know anything about them because they're the mysterious other coming from outside the realms of men and threatening to... well technically we don't know what they're threatening to do; it's probably bad though whatever it is given that they seem to kill all the humans they run across on their march. We also don't know anything about them because all of the characters in a position to learn anything about them or do an expository dump to the audience about what they've discovered don't do that because they are bound up to the books where there is even less attention paid to them than on the television show.

The parts of a television show that people enjoy, especially Game of Thrones, involve characters interacting with each other and having conversations, arguments, rivalries, attractions, whatever. Social stuff. And you can't really do that with the Ice Zombies because as far as we know they don't talk. The show is called 'Game of Thrones' not 'A Song of Ice and Fire' and I think that's important in understanding what people actually enjoy about the show -- people like the politics and plotting much more than the Three Eyed Raven.

Poor Bran Stark. He gets saddled with a lot of the expository duties relating to the Ice Zombies both through his visions and magical training plots and by virtue of being the only main character left up north of the wall or out in the wilderness for long stretches of time without anything else to do. Isaac Hempstead Wright, the young actor cast as Bran, does the best he can with the material but he's not that wonderful of an actor and it's a hard load to carry (and, unlike Maisie Williams, he doesn't get a lot of help from his supporting cast; comparing Charles Dance and Rory McCann to Ellie Kendrick and Thomas Brodie-Sangster is brutal).

As we move into the final stretch, it seems more and more likely that the battle against the Ice Zombies is supposed to be our big final payoff to the series and I just don't care. I think the increased focus and screen time spent doing stuff with the White Walkers has a lot to do with my discontent with the show lately and probably more people than just me.

EDIT:

Corky Romanovsky posted:

Ma'am, I'm sorry I didn't get that. Could you repeat your order?

NorgLyle posted:

proof of concept posted:

I hope a giant steps on some more people.

Glenn Quebec posted:

Someone with plat report my previous post I cannot live with a post so poo poo that has laid this got thread low

The Protagonist posted:

I hope a giant steps on s'more people

OregonDonor posted:

It is hilarious how bad the writing has gotten

NorgLyle posted:

Hot Take incoming:

The worst parts of the show, the least interesting thing on the television story, is and has always been the White Walkers and the Ice Zombie Army.

Waltzing Along posted:

This is the worst page of the thread. Page whatever # it is. Post quickly if you want to be part of it. It started off bad. Really bad. It's not getting any better. Unless....

Waltzing Along posted:

http://i.imgur.com/6MPlfm0.jpg

page redeemeed

drowned in pussy juice posted:

NorgLyle posted:

Without question the worst tits in the show. There are a number of reasons for this...

Waltzing Along posted:

http://i.imgur.com/6MPlfm0.jpg

page redeemeed

NorgLyle posted:

Hot Take incoming:

The worst parts of the show, the least interesting thing on the television story, is and has always been the White Walkers and the Ice Zombie Army. Game of Thrones season one was spectacularly well received and drew in a ton of fans from outside the Fantasy & Sci Fi Convention circuits and it barely featured any Ice Zombies at all. I would go so far as to say that basically the quality of each year of Game of Thrones is almost directly inversely proportional to the amount of Ice Zombie featured in the episodes.

The problems with the White Walkers are numerous. We don't know anything about them because they're the mysterious other coming from outside the realms of men and threatening to... well technically we don't know what they're threatening to do; it's probably bad though whatever it is given that they seem to kill all the humans they run across on their march. We also don't know anything about them because all of the characters in a position to learn anything about them or do an expository dump to the audience about what they've discovered don't do that because they are bound up to the books where there is even less attention paid to them than on the television show.

The parts of a television show that people enjoy, especially Game of Thrones, involve characters interacting with each other and having conversations, arguments, rivalries, attractions, whatever. Social stuff. And you can't really do that with the Ice Zombies because as far as we know they don't talk. The show is called 'Game of Thrones' not 'A Song of Ice and Fire' and I think that's important in understanding what people actually enjoy about the show -- people like the politics and plotting much more than the Three Eyed Raven.

Poor Bran Stark. He gets saddled with a lot of the expository duties relating to the Ice Zombies both through his visions and magical training plots and by virtue of being the only main character left up north of the wall or out in the wilderness for long stretches of time without anything else to do. Isaac Hempstead Wright, the young actor cast as Bran, does the best he can with the material but he's not that wonderful of an actor and it's a hard load to carry (and, unlike Maisie Williams, he doesn't get a lot of help from his supporting cast; comparing Charles Dance and Rory McCann to Ellie Kendrick and Thomas Brodie-Sangster is brutal).

As we move into the final stretch, it seems more and more likely that the battle against the Ice Zombies is supposed to be our big final payoff to the series and I just don't care. I think the increased focus and screen time spent doing stuff with the White Walkers has a lot to do with my discontent with the show lately and probably more people than just me.

EDIT:

Tinfoil Papercut posted:

Fake Sansa, Sand Snek, and Missandei are all incredible, but I really really like Carice van Houten's boobs.

NorgLyle posted:

Without question the worst tits in the show. There are a number of reasons for this...

etalian posted:

Milky Moor posted:

the night king has got to be one of the least intimidating guys in the history of anything

outfit look like a dishrag

drowned in pussy juice posted:

It kind of looks like it was made out of those rubber bar mats swanky places use instead of a metal tray

Solice Kirsk posted:

Emptying the spill mat into a shot glass and serving it is called a Matt Dillon. Well, at least according to my roommate.

Milky Moor posted:

the night king has got to be one of the least intimidating guys in the history of anything

outfit look like a dishrag

MeatwadIsGod posted:

Wasn't his design totally different earlier on? Like I remember him just looking like an old dude with long grungy hair.

Cowslips Warren posted:

You know, none of this poo poo would be happening if Varys had grown some balls and had Prince Inbred killed. Don't tell me he couldn't have done it. Fucker was just lazy.

MeatwadIsGod posted:

Wasn't his design totally different earlier on? Like I remember him just looking like an old dude with long grungy hair.

Also best T&A was Rob's side piece who got murdered.

Waltzing Along posted:

That's just a random white walker. A few have been killed already.

And she was okay.