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SubVERt eXPecTaTioNS! Edit: New page reminder that they had TWO YEARS to release this season, in case anyone forgot! Also, how about that Starbucks cup?? And teleportation? Not in MY tits and dragons drama! central dogma fucked around with this message at 12:23 on May 8, 2019 |
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Jon has pet and rode a loving dragon since the last time he's interacted with Ghost at all.TheRat posted:I honestly enjoyed the poo poo out of ep 1-3. I liked the outline of plot points in ep 4, but the way they executed it was absolutely dreadful. Everything was rushed and like checking off a list. They desperately needed a few more episodes to make it work. Same. I have issues with the way they actually wrapped up the long night in episode 3 but still liked it quite a bit, it was exciting and tense and had some great scenes. Episode 2 is just great overall. This season has a long way to go before it's as bad as season 5.
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May 8, 2019 12:24
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Tender Bender posted:Same. I have issues with the way they actually wrapped up the long night in episode 3 but still liked it quite a bit, it was exciting and tense and had some great scenes. Episode 2 is just great overall. This season has a long way to go before it's as bad as season 5. It all depends on the final two episodes really. If they're well done I can forgive ep 4 as a misstep while rushing towards where they needed to be. But they really need to get their acts together or the only thing people will remember is how they missed the landing spectacularly.
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May 8, 2019 12:26
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romanowski posted:this is pretty much what it was for me, it was a show that I had always been meaning to catch up on but didn't actually follow through on until the hype for the second half of season 5 got big and I knew all my friends would be watching it 
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May 8, 2019 12:28
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Honestly even if the next few episodes are horrible, I'll probably still have fond memories of the show because of the costumes/sets and performances alone.
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May 8, 2019 12:52
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Crow Jane posted:Honestly even if the next few episodes are horrible, I'll probably still have fond memories of the show because of the costumes/sets and performances alone. Totally this. Even if Jaime and Brienne shagging cheapened their friendship, it gave us drunk Thormund crying to the Hound. Everyone might be calling Sansa super smart for no reason, but her costume is boss (note how the chain and loop subtly evokes both a Maesters chain and a Hand pin, positioning her as not seeking any power above Lady of Winterfell). The Bronn seem was dumb, but it's always nice to see the Lannister boys being bros.
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May 8, 2019 13:05
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My best friend binged the whole show over the past month to catch up with this and I think that might have been the right approach, instead of what I did which was watch this poo poo in realtime weekly over the near-decade it spent airing 
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May 8, 2019 13:08
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Chris James 2 posted:My best friend binged the whole show over the past month to catch up with this and I think that might have been the right approach, instead of what I did which was watch this poo poo in realtime weekly over the near-decade it spent airing There’s probably someone who got into this last month following tumblr gifs and short plot summaries who enjoys the show now way more than anyone else
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May 8, 2019 13:11
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Strom Cuzewon posted:Totally this. Even if Jaime and Brienne shagging cheapened their friendship, it gave us drunk Thormund crying to the Hound. Everyone might be calling Sansa super smart for no reason, but her costume is boss (note how the chain and loop subtly evokes both a Maesters chain and a Hand pin, positioning her as not seeking any power above Lady of Winterfell). The Bronn seem was dumb, but it's always nice to see the Lannister boys being bros. I want some of those epaulet/shoulder guard things Cersei wears. They'd look stupid as hell over my boring clothes, but whatever.
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May 8, 2019 13:18
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I guess I am in the minority, but I enjoyed the weird/dirty/goofy medieval props more than the high fashion, all black design we have now. Each house had it's own designs - with Ned wearing stained, brown stuff, the lannister having garish red and gold fancy clothes and so on. Knights is S1 used to have goofy, medieval helmets with animals and weird creatures - I had completely forgot the silly hound helmet the...Hound had, or the fabulous close helmet Loras Tyrell wears while jousting in S1. I just wish they had left a bit more colours on the palette, I think Danaerys is the only one not wearing black 24/7 - ironic, considering her house colors are black and red <.< That Italian Guy fucked around with this message at 13:31 on May 8, 2019 |
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May 8, 2019 13:29
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In the show Cersei's relatively stable rule is framed as people uniting against Dragonhitler and her rape horde. It's an underdeveloped plot point but I can believe it. Also I liked The Sopranos' ending.
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May 8, 2019 13:32
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That Italian Guy posted:I guess I am in the minority, but I enjoyed the weird/dirty/goofy medieval props more than the high fashion, all black design we have now. Each house had it's own designs - with Ned wearing stained, brown stuff, the lannister having garish red and gold fancy clothes and so on. Knights is S1 used to have goofy, medieval helmets with animals and weird creatures - I had completely forgot the silly hound helmet the...Hound had, or the fabulous close helmet Loras Tyrell wears while jousting in S1. bring back smug blonde Jaime 
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May 8, 2019 13:34
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I'm also a fan of the loose halter dress things Littlefinger's whores wore in the first few seasons. Those things look like they'd be comfy as hell to wear around the house in the summer.
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May 8, 2019 13:37
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Fellatio del Toro posted:bring back smug blonde Jaime Ya know, he coulda been a good Templeton Peck from the A Team 
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May 8, 2019 13:42
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Season 1 Loras Tyrell had so much pizzazz: Ok, maybe some things are best left in the past: 
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May 8, 2019 14:03
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That Italian Guy posted:Ok, maybe some things are best left in the past: Nah that helmed ruled: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQvtycrQykY&t=206s
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May 8, 2019 14:07
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Chris James 2 posted:Lindsay Ellis (creator of a lot of great film criticism vids on youtube including the autopsy on the Hobbit trilogy) did a very good Twitter thread about this final season (no spoilers within) as bad as this last episode was it's not like there was a big drop in quality between last season and this one. it's not been a steady decline post-season 4 - since 5 is probably the worst overall season - but even at its best since then it's been about mediocre. That Italian Guy posted:Ok, maybe some things are best left in the past: that helmet ruled. dark souls 2 has a similar one and it's the one i rocked.
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May 8, 2019 14:12
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Roland Jones posted:I've said this before, but I think she works really well as Dany... When they give her good material to work with. Season 1 Dany, Dany sacking Astapor, some of the scenes this season, etc. But because they kind of had to sideline her for most of the series because her arriving in Westeros starts the endgame, and they can't just not have her around, she wound up doing a lot of nonsense that sounds like it wasn't great in the books and was mostly even worse in D&D's incapable hands. They needed less burning things, more times of her reflecting and ruling things in ways other than "do as I say or else", but they wanted her to be "tough" at pretty much all times. And because D&D are hacks who don't understand or like women as anything other than eye candy or "badasses", "tough" usually meant "threatening people and throwing a fit at any perceived challenge or slight". (Murdering the slavers and the ultra-rich was never wrong though.) Aside from making the Dany parts more interesting, it'd also be a better setup for Missandei and Varys for season 7 and 8. Like, instead of Missandei simply supporting Dany because she saved her, make it obvious that she sees her as the best chance at ending slavery in the part of the world she knows about - Missandei basically having the greatest ambitions of anyone in the show, just not for herself, wanting Dany to conquer basically the known world and completely reform those societies. Of course if you wanted that story to breathe a bit you probably need a few more episodes... TheRat posted:Every episode so far has been 5-10 minutes or so shorter than what they announced in march or whenever it was. I feel like someone went ham in the cutting room last minute, causing us to lose a lot of context/detail.
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May 8, 2019 14:15
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an skeleton posted:Come on y'all. The absolute WORST these last 2 episodes can be, the floor on entertainment here, is stupid visceral high-budget spectacle with 2 handfuls of Cool Looking and/or Badass poo poo and probably at least 1 actually emotionally affective scene. Nah gently caress that. The cgi is always bad and the sets are barren trash now. loving turning King’s Landing into a barren plain because that makes the upcoming horrible looking cgi shot of Jon’s army easier. And goddamn everyone has been dressed like an idiot for at least two seasons.
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May 8, 2019 14:38
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Chris James 2 posted:My best friend binged the whole show over the past month to catch up with this and I think that might have been the right approach, instead of what I did which was watch this poo poo in realtime weekly over the near-decade it spent airing Now imagine being one of the clowns who read the first Song of Ice and Fire book when it came out and has been following the series since then.
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May 8, 2019 14:43
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Dr. Video Games 0112 posted:HBO's biggest prior show, known for having notoriously unsatisfying ending, now with the levels of poo poo these D&D reached so far, I wouldn't be surprised. GRRM also said he loves Lost? RIP these last 2 episodes, may as well not watch. The Sopranos had the greatest series finale ending of all time, and people still debate it. In the moment, the finale was stunning and confusing. If you watched the entire show and paid attention, the ending was faithful to the show’s tone and themes. Will D&D get that?
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May 8, 2019 14:54
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The solution for the Dany plot is to just not introduce her until like season 4/5
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May 8, 2019 14:55
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They could have just given her a smattering of appearances in the early seasons before launching her as a main character through some badassery
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May 8, 2019 14:56
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That Italian Guy posted:Season 1 Loras Tyrell had so much pizzazz: What?? That helmet is awesome. Both helmets are awesome and just so well designed to match their characters.
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May 8, 2019 14:57
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the original mountain helmet was also way cooler than what they gave the giant teddy bear. they should've given euron victarion's squid helmet.
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Red posted:The Sopranos had the greatest series finale ending of all time, and people still debate it. In the moment, the finale was stunning and confusing. If you watched the entire show and paid attention, the ending was faithful to the show’s tone and themes. Obviously not, they already hosed it up by killing the main threat in episode 3 without even explaining their motives or goals.
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May 8, 2019 15:04
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remember the motorcycle guy in the sopranos finale?
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kater posted:Nah gently caress that. The cgi is always bad and the sets are barren trash now. loving turning King’s Landing into a barren plain because that makes the upcoming horrible looking cgi shot of Jon’s army easier. And goddamn everyone has been dressed like an idiot for at least two seasons. Yeah uh, what the hell is going on with King's Landing? It was always lush and surrounded by greenery. Last episode it looked like when Dany and the horde was outside of Qarth (?) after she trudged through the Red Waste, begging to be let in.
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May 8, 2019 15:12
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It's a metaphor for cersi also having short hair now.
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May 8, 2019 15:13
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Yeah, that Kings landing set last episode was garbage.
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No Wave posted:remember the motorcycle guy in the sopranos finale? And all the strippers and customers watching.
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May 8, 2019 15:14
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I loved the Sopranos but couldn’t get through the B part of season 5 on either watch through and have thus never seen the finale. I kind of like the vague version I’ve put together from references more than anything it could really be, at this point. People should try that with GOT
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May 8, 2019 15:17
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Everyone making GBS threads on this show now is wonderful https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahoHDU0T44I Oh man this video is  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqYeIk1uZGs Happy Noodle Boy fucked around with this message at 15:22 on May 8, 2019 |
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May 8, 2019 15:18
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When was the last time the show remembered people existed outside of the immediate sphere of the relevant characters? There hasn’t even been any reference to the general population, five of the seven kingdoms and all their lords or anything else for ages. Like Cersei just snuffed out all politics when she blew up the sept Kings Landing in the last couple episodes, besides having suffered from severe desertification, hasn’t felt like a city anymore, just a place for the red keep. I think the last regular people moment was the kid watching the Dothraki in the first episode
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Frog Act posted:I loved the Sopranos but couldn’t get through the B part of season 5 on either watch through and have thus never seen the finale. I kind of like the vague version I’ve put together from references more than anything it could really be, at this point. People should try that with GOT You gotta soldier through; the symbolism and Tony’s choices lay the groundwork for the final season. The whole Tony B situation is well done, and is very much in rhythm with Richie, Ralphie, Feech, and Phil.
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Frog Act posted:When was the last time the show remembered people existed outside of the immediate sphere of the relevant characters? There hasn’t even been any reference to the general population, five of the seven kingdoms and all their lords or anything else for ages. Varys literally spent a good amount of time talking about which ruler would be better for common people and that they deserved food for their children etc in the last episode.
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TheRat posted:Varys literally spent a good amount of time talking about which ruler would be better for common people and that they deserved food for their children etc in the last episode. Varys freaking out because "tens of thousands" will die was hilariously lame. King's Landing has 1 million people. That's like 1% casualties. What the hell did he think was going to happen in a war?
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Red posted:You gotta soldier through; the symbolism and Tony’s choices lay the groundwork for the final season. The whole Tony B situation is well done, and is very much in rhythm with Richie, Ralphie, Feech, and Phil. Agreed, to this day my top 3 TV shows are pretty much 1. Sopranos, 2. Twin Peaks, 3. The Wire, 4. True Detective.. That's more than 3 but I wanted to list true detective. Smart writing makes me happy and I don't think there's a tighter show than the sopranos. The variety in characters, all of the arcs, how it all comes together, it's a beautiful slice of life. And fun - too - it actually being a fun script makes it better, that's why (I'm sorry) The Wire isn't higher on that list, and barely edges out True Detective (just because TD is one season, season 2 didn't happen), I didn't find it as fun, especially not Season 2, it took a lot of effort to get through - it was a rollercoaster of "oh my god this is amazing" and "gah politics!", it made me feel stupid for not being more grown up  But I love Mad Men and Star Trek TNG which have a lot of politics too.. Maybe I'm just broken? Game of Thrones has had those OH poo poo moments over and over again, but the last time was when Cersei blew up the sept, it was amazing, I didn't expect it at all and it kicked rear end. Wasn't as subtle as it probably will be in the books but nothing is.
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SimonChris posted:Varys freaking out because "tens of thousands" will die was hilariously lame. King's Landing has 1 million people. That's like 1% casualties. What the hell did he think was going to happen in a war? Maybe he realized "Hey won't we just let Cersei be queen" because really why don't they just let Cersei be queen and don't have tens of thousands die? As long as you don't gently caress with her or her family, then she doesn't seem too bad. At least she's not trying to invade other continents like Dany is.
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