How do you think readers of the books feel?Valar Morghoulis.
Which apparently applies to TV programmes as well as humans.
Yes I remain angry of Tunbridge Wells.
I invested 10 years of my life in this program only to have it shat upon.
No good - I'm still angryWell done GoT. Emmy for best Outstanding Drama Series. Nice.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-09-24/emmys-2019-game-of-thrones-deserved-best-drama/11539328
No good - I'm still angry
A Game of Thrones stage Play. Not everyone is keen on the idea.
This is actually true. In some respects, I am glad I just write manuals for a living. Doing something truly creative might kill my brain."Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead." - Gene Fowler
I bet Rynner gets a part as an ancient mariner who battled a sea monster and lived to tell the tale.
Game of Thrones prequel series House of the Dragon is believed to have started filming in Cornwall.
Producer HBO confirmed this week production was under way with tweets of members of the cast reading scripts. Photos have emerged of film crews and costumed actors, thought to be stars Matt Smith and Emma D'Arcy, at Holywell Bay near Newquay. The new series is set 300 years before the events of Game Of Thrones and will tell the story of the Targaryen family.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cornwall-56919320
Well let’s just hope he knows which way to put the jam and cream on. THAT’s what we’ll all be watching for.They were definitely filming it at St Michael's Mount this week - a friend was in Marazion and they'd closed the causeway off "because of Game of Thrones". I believe Paddy Considine is the lead as Targaryen père.
Yes. the final sensible scene between Jamie and Brienne before the plot was lost is worth watching. After that everything disintegrates into embarrassing nonsense. Both in terms of plot and character development and in terms of the franchise, which has largely been destroyed.Just watch the first 3 episodes.
Just watch the first 3 episodes.
I've had something of a revelation on this.
I was of the opinion that Dany's alleged descent into madness was very badly done, and I still think that. But I'm not sure that 'madness' is what we were meant to take from it, and I've come to realise there are clues from earlier in the series not just in Dany's arc.
I think one key is in this quote
'Leave one wolf alive and the sheep are never safe'.
I love the quote, but it is double edged. It can mean we, the few, will defeat the many, but also it can mean that they, the elite, will always victimise the underlings.
Or, put another way, how can you eliminate the oppressors without turning into the oppressor yourself?
Which is what several people in the whole series, not just Dany, manage to do.
Looked at in that light, a lot more of the story lines start to make sense.
And Bran - him now being beyond human, it is almost saying 'only a God can manage people because people can't be trusted to do it themselves' . Could it even be the whole series is a parable like C. S. Lewis's stuff? This paragraph is pure speculation, more so than my main point above.
But I'm still not excusing the ridiculousness of the last few episodes, and indeed if the above was the intended moral of the books from GRRM and/or the TV show that ridiculousness tended to obscure the meaning rather than emphasise it.
Anyway, given the above I think I might now be reconciled enough to rewatch the series with the above points in mind.
Oh, I absolutely agree with you. And I also took it personally.It took me a long time to get over the way they butchered the last season of GoT. Several times this year, I thought about binging the series, but when I thought about the ending, I couldn't do it.
I was really invested in this series and was simply insulted with what they expected us to buy into for an ending. Even with your theory in mind, Dany's character was not the only one that was treated unjustly in the last season. IMO, the only one who received a half decent story arc was Queen of the North.
I'm not sure why I took it so personal, but I did.
I could hardly contain my excitement for each new season. Every episode was like watching a movie. It delighted all my senses. Locations, costumes, performances by all, even the children were flawless. As though they were born for the part they played. They played with my emotions by allowing me to invest in each "main" character and then killed them off!!Oh, I absolutely agree with you. And I also took it personally.
Sansa and Arya came out reasonably well - pretty much everyone else was killed in an implausible way or suddenly became a moron. Deadly weapons in one episode were useless in the next. Hiding from someone who has the power to raise the dead in a crypt? IN A CRYPT???
Plus people levitating from one end of Westeros to the other, the ludicrous pirate character, killing off almost everyone who could have gone into a decent sequel, it made neither fictional nor business sense.
I don't know why I got so involved in the series - I've never been that invested in anything I've watched before. Star Trek would have been the closest.
Apparently in this new Space Jam sequel nobody wanted, there's a Game of Thrones scene included. You know, for the little kids.
That's a bit strange don't you think? Game of Thrones was never meant for kids to watch. lol
Oh, and Clegane Bowl was rubbish. After waiting about four seasons. Either the Hound should have won or the Mountain should have won only for Arya to kill (re-kill?) him.I could hardly contain my excitement for each new season. Every episode was like watching a movie. It delighted all my senses. Locations, costumes, performances by all, even the children were flawless. As though they were born for the part they played. They played with my emotions by allowing me to invest in each "main" character and then killed them off!!
That last battle scene supposedly set up by seasoned warriors was strategically incorrect. And as you said, hide all the women and children in a Crypt??
Arya sneaks up and screams as she jumps onto the Night King. He had her by the throat. All he had to do was touch those babies with one finger and they turned. Not Arya.
All that torturous training and skill Arya went through from the faceless man so she could kill Cersei. A building collapses on them? The end?
I think I spoke too soon. I'm not sure I'll ever get over it.