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TOOT BOOT posted:"No one talking about Game of Thrones anymore" says man posting in a thread about a show that ended 2 years ago.   Open Source Idiom posted:Yeah, if you wanna talk about a "big" show that ended without anyone talking about it, talk about The Americans, or True Blood or Sons Of Anarchy. True Blood is actually hilarious and good. 
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:True Blood is actually hilarious and good. Yeah, but so's The Americans. :P (give or take a ten minute silent hole digging scene, which is peak peak TV for me)
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Sep 21, 2021 06:24
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10 minutes of bar floor sweeping > 10 minutes of hole digging imo
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Sep 21, 2021 07:17
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While Battlestar’s last ten minutes were really ehhh.. (“let’s become Amish!”) they didn’t retroactively make the good stuff bad or pointless. All the characters followed their motivations and personalities to their logical end points. And the big final battle was meaningful, cathartic, and full of cool explosions. Everything set up was followed through on and explained. You can’t say any of that for GoT.
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Sep 21, 2021 07:36
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galagazombie posted:While Battlestar’s last ten minutes were really ehhh.. (“let’s become Amish!”) they didn’t retroactively make the good stuff bad or pointless. All the characters followed their motivations and personalities to their logical end points. And the big final battle was meaningful, cathartic, and full of cool explosions. Everything set up was followed through on and explained. You can’t say any of that for GoT. I think a lot of those end points in BSG are pretty crap, but yeah, at least they're logical and thoughtful ends to arcs that attempt to make emotional sense. Game of Thrones attempts to have a profound and meaningful final statement in Danny's end -- sudden and shocking, but inevitable. It's also just utter bollocks when you're watching it. And then she suddenly goes all Mordor. It's just so laughable. The show doesn't have anything meaningful to say about power that isn't borrowed knowledge from better writers - GRRM, usually. Hence all the stupid poo poo like "Power is a Ladder". Power is a Ladder. That's the campest loving metaphor. If Littlefinger had taken a slightly different path in life he would have been running a pyramid scheme.
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Sep 21, 2021 07:57
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Sookie should've became a vampire instead of what actually happened. The majority of the show was amazing though so whatever. LOST was great the entire time, including the final episode, step off haters, you're not a real LOST fan 
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Sep 21, 2021 12:35
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Macaluso posted:Sookie should've became a vampire instead of what actually happened. The majority of the show was amazing though so whatever. I just went and rewatched the AIDS burger scene. I always get a kick out of that.
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Sep 21, 2021 13:07
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I liked all the seasons of Dexter, I did not like the final GoT seasons.
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An insane mind posted:I liked all the seasons of Dexter 
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Sep 21, 2021 17:18
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Jon basically became a Lumberjack at the end
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Sep 21, 2021 17:56
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Jon moved to Portland.
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Sep 21, 2021 20:49
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Deb/Dany parallels just got too real for me, even that weird incest storyline that was rushed and dropped (it was dropped in Dexter right?).
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iamsosmrt posted:Deb/Dany parallels just got too real for me, even that weird incest storyline that was rushed and dropped (it was dropped in Dexter right?). Man, I just rewatched Dexter because I hate myself and you would be shocked how much Deb being "in love with" Dexter comes up. Like late in Season 8. I thought it got dropped when her crazy therapist who convinced her of it got dropped in Season 6, but no. It's not like a storyline, but if they ever need an excuse why she's putting up with him poo poo this episode, well that's right there for them.
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PostNouveau posted:Man, I just rewatched Dexter because I hate myself and you would be shocked how much Deb being "in love with" Dexter comes up. Like late in Season 8. I thought it got dropped when her crazy therapist who convinced her of it got dropped in Season 6, but no. It's not like a storyline, but if they ever need an excuse why she's putting up with him poo poo this episode, well that's right there for them. I haven't seen Dexter's latter seasons since they aired, but I mostly remember it coming up as a big and icky revelation like "I think I'm loving in love with Dexter!?" as a season cliff hanger or something but never actually having like a real story arc or anything, but meaning moreso that it didn't affect much or have any payoff other than being like wtf is this and maybe being a catalyst for all the weird step-porn over the last decade. What you're saying though seems like it came up much earlier than I thought. His loving off into that storm and becoming a lumberjack was symbolically the same as Jon's guilt over killing Dany though, right? Like Dex felt the guilt of essentially causing Deb's murder after a series of really boneheaded decisions. Man the best seasons were also the first 4 with a steep decline in season 5 that tanked in 8. What an odd coincidence.
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Sep 22, 2021 00:06
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Open Source Idiom posted:Yeah, if you wanna talk about a "big" show that ended without anyone talking about it, talk about The Americans, or True Blood or Sons Of Anarchy. GoT is different because it was more worldwide. The Americans and Sons of Anarchy at least weren't big here in the UK.
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Macaluso posted:LOST was great the entire time, including the final episode, step off haters, you're not a real LOST fan Lost's real problem was that Seasons 4 and 5 took the show to some crazy places and had a lot of bonkers storylines and then you have the Season 6 island plotline which was fairly mundane and staid in comparison until the final 4 episodes and there's too much narrative shuffling of existing characters and their stories in order to give the Man in Black weight as a villain. However, the flashsideways element works way more when you know that it's actually the series denouement for the characters rather than a separate story. CPFortest fucked around with this message at 02:48 on Sep 22, 2021 |
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Sep 22, 2021 02:44
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I know people who still complain about "they told us the island wasn't purgatory or the afterlife, they told us that for years! And then in the end it was!" No it wasn't dumbass. The flashsideways bits in the last season were, that parallel story where nobody went to the island because it sank decades before. The island was never purgatory, but that doesn't mean characters can't die and experience an afterlife.
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Sep 22, 2021 02:47
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The purgatory/it's all a dream type stuff is very weird for people to latch onto considering the prototype examples for both are the Prisoner and Newhart. The Prisoner was a very disorienting type show in a way that Lost never was what with how the episodes aired not to mention its narrative. Newhart's ending is just a big joke at the fact that despite running for 8 or so seasons The Bob Newhart Show was still far more beloved and had way more cultural cache.
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regulargonzalez posted:10 minutes of bar floor sweeping > 10 minutes of hole digging imo they're equally good for completely different reasons
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Open Source Idiom posted:Yeah, if you wanna talk about a "big" show that ended without anyone talking about it, talk about The Americans, or True Blood or Sons Of Anarchy. Yeah I guess that's why this thread persists, people just can't get over the fact that Game of Thrones was bad. I mean I liked the books (didn't read the recent one) but the TV show my god lol
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Sep 22, 2021 05:30
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GOT was so bad that people have to be like "Hey, remember Lost? That was pretty alright, yeah?" loving Lost lol
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Sep 22, 2021 05:31
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GndAZ2cyh0k
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Mac and Cheese posted:they're equally good for completely different reasons Ok but one has Green Onions as the soundtrack
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If there's one piece of media that reminds me of Season 7/8, it's Mad TV's "Never Stop the Dance" sketch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFO8ZWytwwA Every time Dany or Jon blankly stated what they were doing or where they were going, all I could think of was Will Sasso's dead stare as he says "I have to go to a war."
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Sep 26, 2021 03:08
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I don't know how drunk or high you had to be to get to that, but we all thank you for your service.
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Can’t wait to find out the rest of the horrible things they did which, in the end, didn’t even serve an artistic purpose. https://twitter.com/ithayla/status/1444123139403751426?s=21
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:Can’t wait to find out the rest of the horrible things they did which, in the end, didn’t even serve an artistic purpose. Whaaaaaaaaaaat? Holy poo poo https://ew.com/tv/hannah-waddingham-waterboarded-game-of-thrones/ posted:Being an actor on Game of Thrones was never easy — keeping tightly held script secrets, worrying about when you'd be next to be killed off.
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PostNouveau posted:Whaaaaaaaaaaat? This is why I have no sympathy for D&D and hope everything that they try to do ever since GoT ended either keeps getting cancelled or postponed. gently caress those pricks.
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Sydney Bottocks posted:This is why I have no sympathy for D&D and hope everything that they try to do ever since GoT ended either keeps getting cancelled or postponed. gently caress those pricks. 
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Oct 3, 2021 00:29
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Was the show always that horrible to its actors, even from the get go? drat.
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Oct 3, 2021 02:24
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Didn't Emilia Clarke have multiple strokes and then take another two seasons before they'd let her stop doing gratuitous nude (and often rape) scenes?
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Didn't Emilia Clarke have multiple strokes and then take another two seasons before they'd let her stop doing gratuitous nude (and often rape) scenes? Aneurysms. She’s basically spoken about how she used Dany as her strength because she was literally terrified she was going to drop dead any moment.
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Oct 3, 2021 02:56
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Maybe things have changed, but there was no "fake" way to convincingly shoot water boarding. You either water board the actor or you do something else. Should have done something else tho IMO.
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Open Source Idiom posted:Maybe things have changed, but there was no "fake" way to convincingly shoot water boarding. You either water board the actor or you do something else. Or recast the character with Sean Hannity.
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Open Source Idiom posted:Maybe things have changed, but there was no "fake" way to convincingly shoot water boarding. You either water board the actor or you do something else. you put her face under a cloth like they do in real life and she gets noseplugs and a tube in her mouth to feed her air. or maybe you recognize that you're only going to need a few seconds of footage so you just have her hold her breath for five or ten seconds then cut away to something else. this isn't hard to figure out but no ones giving me millions of dollars to shoot an epic fantasy or anything
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Open Source Idiom posted:Maybe things have changed, but there was no "fake" way to convincingly shoot water boarding. You either water board the actor or you do something else. I mean, they could have researched any number of actual, Medieval tortures from the real world, which was the kind of thing the show (the books, really) were more known for, at the start. Could have had some amazing makeup and practical effects work that might’ve snagged awards or anything else, really. But no, gotta actually waterboard an actress for longer than a loving terrorist because it’s cheap and they hate everything. 
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Oct 3, 2021 04:02
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How does it take 10 hours to shoot a less-than-5-minute scene involving 2 actors?
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TOOT BOOT posted:How does it take 10 hours to shoot a less-than-5-minute scene involving 2 actors? It probably didn't; D&D just love torturing people.
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Oct 3, 2021 09:53
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We couldn't have dogs in the last 3 seasons cause of the budget but we could torture an actor for a few hours. For something different, a one hour video on Book Tyrion (obvious spoilers for the books if you care): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9HFigfkKHA Coquito Ergo Sum fucked around with this message at 17:23 on Oct 3, 2021 |
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Coquito Ergo Sum posted:We couldn't have dogs in the last 3 seasons cause of the budget but we could torture an actor for a few hours. I don’t know where this “budget” thing came from, but D&D said that they just hated working with animals and that’s why the direwolves were cut during one of the after credits BTS.
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